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Subject: [IAHENRY] Howe's Academy-Mt. Pleasant
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:25:45 EDT

From:

Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa Chicago: Acme
Publishing Company, 1888.

Page 653-654---Howe's Academy.

This is another institution of learning in which the citizens of Mt. Pleasant
have just pride. Prof. Samuel L. Howe located on a farm near Mt. Pleasant in
1841, and in the winter of 1841-42 taught a term of school in a log cabin. A
year or two later he moved into the village and opened a school in the old
jail building, subsequently removing to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
and finally, in 1845, moving into a building erected for the Mt. Pleasant
High School and Female Seminary, of which he was the head. Until his death,
which occurred Feb. 15, 1877, Prof. Howe conducted the school, assisted at
times by his children, whom he trained as teachers. The impress of his mind
was left upon many persons who have become prominent in Iowa and elsewhere.
He was a thorough and a successful teacher. Since his death the school has
been conducted by one of his sons, and at this time is in a most flourishing
condition, with a very large attendance.

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Note: In "Mt. Pleasant Beautiful", (1909, reprinted in 1988) there is a
picture of Howe's Academy on page 29, "Howe's Academy, South Jefferson St."
In the appendix of the 1988 reprint, it states: "Howe's Academy, (304 South
Jefferson) It covered also the site of 306 South Jefferson. Some basement
walls of it were used in the house at 306."

Cheers to all you Henry County researchers,

Pat Ryan White of Camarillo, CA

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