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Jug Corners School

Cooper Township


Location: District # 2 Fractional, Section 18, northeast corner of D Avenue and 12th Street.

Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room

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Photo by Sarah Hultmark, c. 1981, History Room Photo File P-1274.

Established about 1871. Original brick building torn down October 1878. Rebuilt on same site and reopened January 1879. Still standing in 2019.

Jug Corners School class ca1915

Teachers

1879 Miss Mary Walker
1880 Mrs. Belle Harrington
1881 Charles Barbour (43 students enrolled)
1882 Mr. Butler
1883 Maria Huntley
1886 Miss Wilcox
1895 Lil Bouchout, Mabel Bigelow
1898 Harry Newton
1902 Mary Skinner
1913-15 Blanche Ely Wilson
1915-16 Vera E. Pickard
1916-17 Kittie Waling Klosterman
1917-19 Ruth M. Fritz
1919-25 Mary M. Egan
1925-26 Mary Strandt
1926-27 Mable Webster
1927-28 Rachel Randall
1929-32 Mary Egan
1932-33 Lena Graham
1933-34 Fern Price
1934-36 Jeanette Lancaster
1936-39 Lola Dunning
1939-40 Marian McCormick
1940-42 Roma Angeletti
1942-43 Hazel Askin
1943-44 Ruth Early
1944-45 Ruth Reynolds
1945-52 Olga Makara
1952-53 Charlotte Doyle
1953-54 Leona Cassady

Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 21 October 2021.

Sources

Books

Manual of the Public Schools of Kalamazoo County, Michigan for 1898-1899

J. W. Hazard, Commissioner of Schools
Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, Printers, 1898
History Room Orange Dot File: Education (Kalamazoo County)


Articles

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 October 1878, p.1, col.7.

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 December 1878, p.4, col.3.

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 17 February 1880, p.1, col.6.

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 10 March 1881, p.4, col.4.

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 2 February 1882, p.4, col.3.

“West Cooper”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 16 April 1886, p.8, col.1.

“Old Jug Corners School perpetuates a failure”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 June 1949

 “Factory that made but 1 jug gave Jug Corners name”

Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 July 1938, copy in Kalamazoo County Scrapbook #3, page 2.

One of Jug Corners School’s 50 graduating classes” (photograph, 1914 or 1915)

Kalamazoo Gazette, 20 July 1938, page 5.


Manuscripts

List of one-room schools still standing in Kalamazoo County in 1982

  • Hultmark, Sarah.
  • Manuscript, Local History Collection, Kalamazoo Public Library

Records of District No. Two Fractional, Alamo and Cooper Townships, 1913-1919

Records of District No. Two Fractional, Town of Cooper, 1919-1923.

Records of District No. Two Fractional, Town of Cooper, 1923-27.


Maps and atlases

USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1918 (Kalamazoo Quadrangle)

  • History Room topographic map case, drawer 7A, folder 21A

Files

Teachers’ and school officers’ directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1925-54

  • Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)

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