The School Masters and School Ma'ams who Have Taught in the Portland Public Schools.
"Two years ago I gathered together many interesting reminiscences of the schools of Portland, and shaped them as best I could for preservation. In that sketch may be found the more prominent personages who took part in directing the general work of the schools, not only as patrons, but also as teachers.
I have, during the past year, been overhauling such meagre records as have been handed down from clerk to clerk, and have made a complete catalogue of the names of all persons who have been engaged as teachers since the opening of the first school under the management of district No. i, organized in April, 1856.
For the first ten years—from 1858 to 1868—no records seem to have been kept with anything like regularity. The employment of teachers must have been conducted very irregularly. The records show, in some years, but one board meeting; but, from the financial record—the clerk's cash book—I find that teachers, carpenters and janitors were paid now and then. Bills for wood, furniture, candles, etc., appear to have been audited by some one and were paid by the school clerk."
From these cash books, from the records of an occasional board meeting, from a certain old, dilapidated "record" which was passed from principal to principal of the Central school for fourteen years, have these names been collected.
They are arranged alphabetically. The year in which the name first appeared and also the school in which the person first taught, are given. In a few instances nothing satisfactory could be ascertained concerning the first position occupied. If this list meets the eyes of those who were more intimately acquainted with the teachers of the first ten or twelve years, particularly, and any errors or omissions are noticed, I shall be glad to make the corrections, so that the list may be as complete as possible.
A.
Anderson, A. J. ; Central 1874
Atwood, Miss A. L. ; North 1874
Abbott, Miss A. C. ; Central 1876
Anderson, Mrs. A. B. ; Central 1880
B.
Boynton, G. F. ; Central 1861
Boynton, Mrs. F. M. ; Central 1862
Burton, Miss Helen M. ; Central 1862
Beebe, E. P. ; Central 1864
Batchelder, Miss M. A. ; Harrison Street 1869
Bryant, Miss M. W. ; North 1869
Barker, Miss S. ; McAdam Road 1869
Burt, Mrs. H. E. ; Central 1870
Bodman, Miss F. H. ; Harrison Street 1871
Briggs, Mrs. J. E. ; Harrison Street 1871
Blythe, Miss Kate ; North 1873
Bodley, Miss J. A. ; Harrison Street 1873
Buss, Miss L. A. ; Harrison Street , 1874
Burrage, Mrs. S. J. ; North 1874
Bodenhamer, Mrs. M. L. ; Central 1876
Borthwick, Mrs. A. C. ; Nortfi 1877
Burnham, Miss A. M. ; Harrison Street 1879
Burnell, Miss Kate; North 1879
