List of pupils who attended the select school taught by Mr. Smith Hawkins, in Battle Creek, during the 
winters of 1839-1840, Battle Creek Calhoun County, Michigan

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Copied from the Calhoun County, MI Annual Meeting Book 1890

My old School Rolls and Schoolmates of half a century ago

By A.D.P. Van Buren

The history of "my schools and my schoolmasters" in Michigan, has been in volume 
fourteen of these collections' but for some reason, the lists of pupils, in most of the 
schools were left out.  I have endeavored to make amends for this omission by giving 
here, in their order those old school rolls, of a quarter to half a century ago.  Some are 
nearly complete, others where the roll was lost, and memory was imperfect, are as 
complete as I could make them.  The surviving pupils as they read over those old lists, 
can, in imagination, no doubt, yet hear the rap of the cherry ruler, or the back of a book 
on the school house window, which was the reveille in the early days, to call them 
together, or the ringing of the school bell, which answered the same purpose in later days.  
And if in looking over the old "muster rolls," as I have given them here, any on of those 
pupils does not find his name among those of his school mates, here or she can say with 
the old soldier "I served in that campaign, and share in all its glory, though my name does 
not appear in the reported list of those engaged in it."

List of pupils who attended the select school taught by Mr. Smith Hawkins, in Battle 
Creek, during the winters of 1839-1840.

Adams, Phienas
Adams, Jane
Farnsworth, John
Farnsworth, Jane
Hoag, Abel
Hall, Hastings
Mallory, Sarah
Newman, Richard
Newman, Fanny
Phelps, Chester
Potts, Calista
Rolfe, Nelson
Simonds, Henry
Thurston, Lucy
Van Buren, A.D.P.
Wheaton, Lucy
Whitcomb, William
Willis, George
Willis, Milton
Willis, Lydia
Young, Jacob

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