Caldwell County MO Archives History .....EARLY DAYS AT KIDDER INSTITUTE August 1934
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EARLY DAYS AT KIDDER INSTITUTE
	Narrator:  Wm. Bristow of Daviess County

     Mr. Bristow was one of the pupils who attended Kidder Institute when 
Professor G.E. Ramsey came in the early eighties to revive it after it had 
been closed for several years.  There were around 120 in attendance.  Some of 
those enrolled were Grant McCrary, Tyua Catron, Lettie Martin, Emma Brown, 
Chas. Burris, Mary and Della McCrea and Byron Evans.  While there he and three 
other boys (Grant McCrary, Byron Evans, John and Ames Hubbard) rented a room 
and batched which reduced expenses to a very low point.  This was a very 
common thing to do and many a boy used to joke about baking his bread before 
he came to school.  As a matter of fact, most of the food was brought from 
home already cooked on Monday afternoon; Monday being a holiday.

     These days the majority of K.I. students took the common branches with 
extra hard training in Arithmetic, History and Grammar to prepare to teach.  
When he got this work he took the teachers examination under Professor Brown 
the County School Commissioner at Winston.

     He was then 22 years old and begun teaching at Swisher School (Daviess 
County) at $35 a month.  He taught then at Sell, then back to Swisher and then 
the Wooderson, making twenty years in all.  He quit teaching once and then 
they had trouble with some of the big boys at one of these schools they came 
for Bill to straighten them out.  He did so in a short while.

     Out at Wooderson he taught the Sears children among whom was Jesse who is 
now a professor at Leland Stanford University and won a Ph. D. degree at 
Wisconsin.
     Interview  August 1934.


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