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PUBLIC LIBRARY

PORT WAYNE & ALLEN r.O . INO

ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY

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GENEALOGY

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Dedication

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Harmar School

on

Friday, October Twenty-Two Nineteen Fifteen '

Fort Wayne, Indiana

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COMMITTEES IN CHARGE OF DEDICATION

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Committee on Arrang'em.ents

JACOB HAETMAN, General Chairman

A. H. KELLEE, PAUL P. KINDEE, E. W. COOK,

JACOB AGNE

Reception Committee

ALBEET H. KELLEE, Chairman

HENEY HILGEMANN, HENEY LEPPEE, GEO. HEEMANN,

A. P. LEVEETON, GUSTAV BEEGHOFF,

DE. A. L. SCHNEIDEE,

WM. BEEUEE, M. H. ANKENBEUCK, PEOF. LOUIS DOEN,

DE. W. G. FEEGUSON, SAM WOLF,

WM. GEAKE, OLIVEE JONES

Entertainment Committee

PAUL P. KINDEE, Chairman

MAYOE WM. J. HOSEY, CHAELES E. WELCH, G. F. EOGGE,

JOHN TEIEE, G. W. BOEEGEE,

EMIL ALTENAU.

AETHUE PICKAED, POSTMASTEE E. C. MILLEE,

JOHN WILDING

Conim.ittee on Flowers

C. L. GEIFFITH, Chairman MAX lEMSCHEE, BYEON HATTEESLEY

Committee on Music

CHAELES J. STEISS, Chairman FEANK J. SCHLEBECKEE, PETEE A. DEITSCHEL

Program Committee

JACOB AGNE, Chairman EEIC PETEESON, JOHN WESSEL, JE.

Speakers Committee

A. L. EANDALL, Chairman GUY COLEEICK, WILLIAM A. BAYEE

Jesse M.icliflfi

Sup'l Justin N. Study

PROGRAM

Rendered in the Afternoon from 3 :oo to 5 :oo by the

FORT WAYXE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ORCHESTRA

Geo. J. Thompson, Director

Overture — TJic Conqueror R. L. King

]\rarch — Joy Riders

Selection — Rciu'uiisccnccs of Stephen Poster

Trombone Solo — Drinking Song Fisher

A'alsette — Sirene

Cornet Duet — Seleeted

Potpourri — Areadia — Erin Folk-songs

Caprice — Danse des Diables LeRoy

March — Triomphe R. L. King

PROGRAM

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Evening- at 8:15 o'CIock

March — "Our President" Jacob Hartman Supt. J. X. Stu(l\-, Chairman Hon. Wm. J. Hosey. ]\ra}or Mr. W. H. Shambaug-h Mr. E. G. Hofifman

Pryor

Introductory Remarks

( )ur School System

Our City

( )nr Playgrounds

Greater Fort Wayne

On Jhelem River, "Kashmiri Love Story"

Amy Woodford Linden

(a) lutroduetion and Boat Song

(b) Jim the Sun Xe-ver Set (Trombone Solo)

(c) Only a Rose (Euphonium Solo)

Selection from "Higli Jinks" Friml

Mr. E. W. Cook History of Harmar School

^Ir. Harry H. Hilgemann Education

Mr. Jesse ^Macbeth Growth of Our School City

Prof. Louis Dorn Civic Progress

Tango Maxixe. "LaGifanella" \^alverde

\^alse Lento, "Re:'ie}is" Foagson

U. S. A. National March Panella

Music by Fort Wayne B. P. O. Elks— City Band John L. \'erweire, Director. Louis S. C. Schroeder. Algr.

HISTORY OF HARMAR SCHOOL

hy E. W. COOK

H;niii:ir Stroot ami llariiiar 8chool woi'o both iiameil for (uMu>ral llaniiar, wlio had charge of the frontier troops of the I'nited States aliout 125 years ago. At that time the country surrouinling Fort Wayne was a wilderness and not more than four or tive people lived outside of Fort AVayne within a railius of li'd miles from this city. Fort Wayne could then only be approaclied by boat on the rivers or by Indian trails. A battle was fought by General Ilarmar with the In<lians at the foot of Harmar Street — formerly called Ilarmar Ford — which crosses the river to Lakeside.

In 1S6S the School Trustees, who wore at that time Pliny IFoagland, A. P. Kdgerton and O. I'. Morgan, purchased from Horace and Elizabeth Hanna lots aiS, ;Ui) and M^O, Hanna's Ad- dition, for $l,70().()(t, to be use<l for school jiurposes. An old frame building, located where the Old High School now stands, was removed and })laced on these lots in 1870.

Only one teacher was employed at that time, but the number of scholars ha\'ing increaseil two looms were adiled in 1871. For a number of years this answered the purpose, but the city liaving increased rajiidly in <^his direction it was fouml necessary to erect a new school.

The Trustees employed as architects Sutermeister and Birkner to make i)lans for the new eight-room school. The contract for building the same was let to Charles G; French on April 1, 1876, for .$11,487.00. The old building standing on the ground was sold to Freilerick J. Hayden for $12.5.00, who sold it to W. D. Page. He removed it to Jefferson Street and after remodeling the sanu> lived there until he permanently left the city to reside in California.

The school was openeil in the fall of ls7l) with an enioUment of 8!) girls and 90 boys, with classes in the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Gra<les. The Principal was ^'ettie Marks, assisteil by Margaret Armstrong, Anna I'ayne, Mary Abel, Mari- etta M. Lewis and Clara A. Powen. The Principal received $6.50.00 per year for salary and the teachers received salaries ranging from $;!60.0() to $500.00 each. Susan A. Gavin was jaidtress and receiveil $20.0(1 ]ier month for her services.

In 18!);! it was found necessaiy 1o furnish additional room for the increasing luimber of scliolais and .Messrs. Moritz, Mor- gan ami Hoffman, Trustees, order(>d a four-room addition erected, and awarded the contract to William Moellering for $4,8!tS.()0. This building continued to be used until it was found that the enrollment continue. I to increase, and that the building was obsidete, and the Trustees clccide.! it \\;is necessary to erect the present building.

The present enrollment of jiupils — exclusive of the Vocational School — is 507; divide.l, boys 245, girls 262. The ])resent build ing is the finest ward school in the city of Fort Wayne and architects from different parts of the country have exainine<l it with the view of utilizing some of the new ideas incorporated in (he bull. ling, (iriflith and Fair were the architects and the building coni]>lete will cost about $150,000.0((. The School Trus- tees are proud of it and 1 am sure that the citizens of Fort W;i\lie are also.