Manitowoc County WI Archives History - Schools .....Cato No. 2 
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CATO NO. 2

    Cato No. 2 was organized in the 1850's according to the Cato assessment roll
of 1861. There are no known school district records available. All of the facts
given in this history are taken from county records. Cato 2 in 1861 consisted of
parts of sections 8, 16, 18, 21, 22 and all of sections 17 and 19, all in Cato
township. The school house was located at the corner where the Cato Fall road
joins the Brian Mullins road — that is the S.E. corner of the S.W. 1/4 of
section 17, Cato. The building was thought to have been made of logs and later
covered with boards. The size and cost of that school are now unknown, but in
1872 a frame building was erected at a cost of $340.

    Records in the county superintendent of schools office show that summer and
winter terms were common up to 1875. Teachers names on record are: M. H. Murphy
1872; Josie F. Murphy and Thos. O'Halloran 1873; Mary Murphy and Catharine Stitt
1874; Henry Flagg 1875-6; J. J. Lyons 1877-8; and Richard Burke 1878-1880. The
records also show that James Meany, John Halloran, Thos. O'Halloran, Jerry
Murphy, James Maney, and Edmund Burke served on the school board of this
district from 1872 to 1890. The town clerks report on schools in Cato from 1870
to 1890 shows the following yearly enrollment for each five-year period:
1870—44; 1875—41; 1880— 40; 1885—25; and 1890—23. In 1890 this district voted to
join with Cato Jt. 5 and form a new school district to be known as Cato Jt. 9.
The reason for this move seems to have been the lack of a large enough
enrollment and of taxable wealth.


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1848 - 1948

CENTENNIAL HISTORY
of the
Manitowoc County School Districts and Public School System

EDITED BY JOS. J. RAPPEL, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 1948 


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