School District No. 5-Davidson
January 11, 2021
School District No. 5-Davidson was formed in 1863, but there are no extant census records until 1879. Edwin M Currier was Secretary of the District in 1879, and these are some of the families whose children attended the school: Beasley, Currier, Davidson, Leyner, Meikel, Prince, Rothrock, Rowe, Stecker, Sawdy, and Way.
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School District No. 4-Valmont
January 10, 2021
School District No. 4-Valmont was established in 1863 but there are no census records extant before 1879. C W Hayden was the Secretary for the school district that year, and these are some of the families whose children attended the school: Allen, Akins, Chambers, Ewing, Hayden, Hammontree, Lemmex, Platt, Pancost and Wier.
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School District No. 3-Boulder
January 9, 2021
School District No. 3-Boulder was the largest school district in the county. The district was formed in 1863, but there are no census records extant before 1877. There are more than 30,000 students, administrators and parents listed in this volume. R B Lockwood was the Secretary for the District in 1877, and these are the names of some of the families whose children attended school in the district in 1877: Allen, Berkley, Babcock, Cruikshank, Chase, Day, Eldred, Euler, Fonda, Green, Holstein, Jamison, Kingery, Leonard, Maxwell, Nobles, Oldenburg, Pickel, Quirk, Rowe, Sternberg, Sturtevant, Tourtellot, Van Deren, Widmore, Weiskopf and Young.
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School District No. 2-Shamrock
January 8, 2021
The Shamrock School District, No. 2 (also called Dry Creek School District) was formed in 1863, but there are no census records extant before 1876. And this census for this district is interesting because it counts children under the age of 6, presumably to help plan for the school years to come. Arizona Wilson was the Secretary of the District in 1876, and these are some of the families whose children were counted in this census: Barter, Beal, Coin, Duffy, McDonald Rosenbaum and Staples.
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School District No. 1-Superior
January 7, 2021
The Superior School District (No. 1) was formed in 1863. Unfortunately, there aren’t any school census records for this district until 1876. Joseph Babcock was the Secretary for the district that year, and these were some of the families with children attending the school: Autrey, Babcock, Eggleston, Hake, Keef, Niver, Wilson and Wylam.
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