Source:
1789 - 1881
History of Cincinnati, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A. M., and Mrs. Kate B. Ford
 L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers
1881

CHAPTER XXI.
Education

First School

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THE LANCASTERIAN SCHOOL.
 

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IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE.

THE WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.

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JOSEPH HERRON

IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY.

it was estimated that there were probably fifty private academics and schools in the city, with at least two thousand five hundred pupils.  The three colleges of the city were the Cincinnati, the Woodward, and St. Xavier.  The medical schools were the Ohio, the Eclectic, the Physio-Medical, and the College of Dental Surgery, with

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THE CHICKERING INSTITUTE

IN EIGHEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE.

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     Professor Bartholomew's English and classical school, at the corner of Fourth and John streets, dates, from about 1875.

KINDERGARTENS.

CINCINNATI COLLEGE.

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ST. XAVIER COLLEGE.

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THE CINCINNATI UNIVERSITY.

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LANE SEMINARY *

General A. Hickenlooper

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THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE.

BUSINESS EDUCATION *

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS *

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D. W. McClung

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THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

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THIS CITY NORMAL SCHOOL.

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CITY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS.

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     John B. Peaslee

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THE PRESIDENTS

STATISTICS.

THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

OTHER SCHOOLS.

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DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS

     Roman Catholic parochial schools, thirty-six; other Catholic schools, two; other denominational schools, fourteen; miscellaneous schools, fourteen.

PROFESSIONAL CULTURE

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     Samuel Lewis

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with prescience.  It gave shape and consistency to the school law passed by the general assembly, and many of his suggestions have stood well the test of time, and are, to-day, in active operation.  In 1839 he resigned his place because of failing health.  The temperance and anti-slavery causes both received a large share of his time in the latter years of his life.  His death occurred in 1854.

     Nathan Guilford

     Calvin E. Stowe

     DR. WILLIAM H. M'GUFFEY.

     Dr. McGuffey, the well known author of the Eclectic series of readers, was born in 1800, in Trumbull county, Ohio  By most severe and unrelenting toil he succeeded
in graduating from Washington college, Pennsylvania, in 1825.  Soon after he became professor of ancient languages in Miami university, and remained until 1836, when he was called to the presidency of Cincinnati college.  Three years after this time he accepted a similar position in the Ohio university. In 1845 removed to the university of Virginia, where he remained till his death, which occurred in 1873.  During his life he was always active in the cause of popular education, rendering efficient aid in teachers’ conventions, both by his presence and pen.

     DR. JOSEPH RAY. - The name of Dr. Ray is held in
grateful remembrance by many for his mathematical
works, which made simple and attractive what had been only a terror to the young beginner.  He was born in Ohio county, Virginia, in November, 1807.  From early youth he showed a great fondness for study.  Supporting himself by teaching at intervals, he passed some monthsat Washington college, Pennsylvania, but left without taking a degree.  Devoting his attention finally to medicine, he became a graduate of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati; but in October of the same year began teaching and continued through life.  He was first professor and then president of the Woodward college, afterward Woodward high school, which position he held till the time of his death in April, 1856.  He was prominently identified with the leading teachers of the State, and became president of the State Association in 1852.

     RUFUS KING was born in 1817.  His father, Edward King, coming to Ohio at an early day, became a leading lawyer at Chillicothe, and then at Cincinnati.  His grandfather’s name, also Rufus King, is found among those of eminent statesmen and earnest patriots of the revolutionary times.  The subject of our sketch graduated at Harvard university, and has for many years been a leading lawyer in Cincinnati.  For fifteen years Mr. King was a member of the board of education of this city, and for twelve was its president.  He gave material aid in the reorganization of the public schools, and also in the formation of a great central school library.  He was for some time president of the board of trustees of the Cincinnati university, which has under its care the McMicken fund, the school of art and design, and the Cincinnati observatory.

     ALBERT PICKET began in New York City, early in 1811, a periodical called the Juvenile Monitor, or Educational Magazine.  It is thought to have been the first periodical of the kind published in the United States.  Through the exertions of Mr. Picket and Alexander Kinmont, there was organized in Cincinnati, in the year 1829, the western academic institute and board of education, before spoken of, from which originated the famous western literary institute and college of professional teachers.  Before the latter, in 1834, he delivered the opening address.  He afterwards delivered addresses on such subjects as Education, Parents, Teachers, and

Armor Smith, Jr.

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Schools, Formation of Character in Individuals, Reforms in Education, Qualifications of Teachers, and the Want of Education.  He was at one time president of the Cincinnati Female seminary; afterward he became a resident of Delaware, Ohio.  The following is found in The Ohio School Journal of September, 1848, edited in Columbus, Ohio, by Dr. Lord:
     Albert Picket, sen., for many years principal of the Manhattan school in this city [New York], one of the most efficient and enterprising teachers of our country, is still at Delaware, in Ohio.  This gentleman, now in his seventy-ninth year, taught half a century, and was always twenty years in advance of the profession.  He is still quickening and comforting those who labor for the cause of education.—[Teachers' Advocate, New York].

     We rejoice to meet, from the scene of his former toils, this just tribute to a veteran teacher.  It has been our privilege, in addition to occasional correspondence, to enjoy the privilege of several cheering interviews with Father Picket, as he is affectionately and reverently styled here in Ohio, and, last autumn, to labor with him for a week in the instruction of a class of some hundred teachers.  Let others wear laurels and receive the plaudits of mankind, but give me the retrospect of the famous teacher.

     John L. Talbot

     Milo G. Williams

STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS

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