Hackley School

Alamo Township

Location: (District #3) – section 17, S.E. corner C Ave & 2nd St.

Details

It was built on land donated by Julius Hackley, and was thought to be more than a hundred years old in 1958. It was originally closer to the road, but moved in 1903. In September 1904, the board voted to purchase and install a school bell. Hackley School was no longer listed in the Kalamazoo County school directories after 1956. Students may have transferred to the new Alamo Valley School, or Hackley may have been absorbed into the Otsego School District, to which it would have been annexed about that time. In 1968 it was being used for a rooming house, but appeared to be a private home in a 1981 photograph.

Although it is not reflected in the records we have available, the school apparently maintained a small library. In 1880 the school board for Williams School voted to exchange libraries with Hackley School, an inexpensive way to provide new resources for both districts.

Annual Report, 1875
Apportionment statement, 1875
Annual Report, 1879
Hackley School Souvenir 1896-1897
Hackley School class 1908-09
Teacher’s Report to Director, 1916
Apportionment statement, 1916
Statistical report, 1916
Thorne Squires tuition applications, 1916-1917
Glenn Kisinger tuition application, 1916
Cleon Parmeley tuition application, 1916
Rush Holmes tuition application, 1916?
Cleon “Parmalee” tuition statement, 1918
Hackley School class 1926

Teachers

1865 Carrie E. Bogardus (summer term)
1865-66 Jacob T. Bogardus (winter term)
1866 Annette Hackley (summer term)
1866-67 Jacob T. Bogardus (winter term)
1867 Josie B. Stimpson (summer term)
1867-68 Jacob Bogardus (winter term)
1868 Alice Wheeler (summer term)
1868-69 Jacob T. Bogardus (winter term)
1869-70 Charles H. Barber (winter term)
1870 Ella Sweetland (spring term)
1871-73 Bettie A. McGarry
1873 Lizzie M. Barber (summer and fall terms)
1873-74 Alex S. Eaton (winter term)
1874-75 Mrs. Nancy Parish
1875-76 Jacob T. Bogardus
1876 Alvira A. Pickard (spring term)
1876 Jacob T. Bogardus (fall term)
1876-77 Lowell L. Blair (winter term)
1877-78 Ella Hubbard
1878 Miss Ella Monroe
1878 (about two weeks in November. “This teacher ran off and left his school.”
1878-79 Henry Piper (winter term)
1879 Edna A. Haskins ( summer and possibly fall terms)
1879-80 Thomas W. Carr  (winter term)
1880 Cora N. Bigelow (summer term)
1880-81 Volney H. Brundage (winter term)
1881 Lucinda C. Perkins (summer and fall terms)
1881-82 Katie L. Perkins (first part of winter term, resigned 6 January 1882)
1882 George P. Hales (last part of winter term)
1882 Jessie Sterns (summer and fall terms)
1882-83 J. T. Bogardus (winter term, possibly also Cora Bigelow)
1883 Lilly F. Shutt (spring term)
1883 Bernie Wheeler (fall term)
1883-84 J. T. Bogardus (winter term)
1884 possibly Katie Perkins (spring term)
1884 William S. Corben (summer term)
1884-85 Clara Patten (winter term)
1885 Betty McGary (summer and fall terms)
1885-86 Rose Hyatt (winter term)
1886 Edna Conklin (spring and summer terms)
1888-89 Esther Wheeler (fall and winter terms)
1889-90 Rose Shields (summer, fall, winter terms)
1890 Belle Buckhout (fall term)
1890-91 Edith Foster (winter term)
1891 Elsie Reed (spring, summer? and fall terms)
1892 Minnie Reed (winter, spring and summer terms)
1892-93 Albert Holmes (winter term)
1893 Ora E. Searle (spring, summer and fall terms)
1893-94 Albert Holmes (winter and spring terms)
1896-97 Maude Edwards
1898-99 Albert Holmes
1908-09 Grace L. Butler
1916-17 Grace L. Butler
1922 Hazel E. Richards
1925-30: Hazel E. Richards
1930-31: Elva Buntaine
1931-34: Hazel Sweet
1934-38: Alice M. Wiseley
1938-41: Veronica Kailing
1941-42: Helen King
1942-45: Jeannette M. Fron
1945-46: Ruth Reynolds
1946-48: Muriel Cronkhite
1948-50: Laura Williams
1950-51: unknown
1951-52: Margaret Plewak
1952-53: Eleanor S. Prichard
1953-55: Phyliss E. Ramsby
1955-56: Rosemary Clissold

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 14 October 2021.