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==Education==

==Education==

In 1818 the first school was taught in Green. The first emigrants to the township were from western parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia from localities were to some extend, they had been taught to see and feel the value of education. Stimulated under this sense of feeling with keen vehemence they looked forward to the day that might open to them a school for to educate their children. But, under the servitude of want and privation then holding regency over the domain of the wilderness, they were for the first seven years denied the sacred object of their desire. It was now in the fall of 1818, and a young man by the name of Peter {{Surname|Keane}}, who had made progress in literature at the University of Oxford in England, and had for some time been teaching in Canada, crossed Lake Erie and striking south happened to come to the settled portion of Green township. On his survival here and after making known his profession as a teacher with much joy and gladness the citizens procured his service for one year. There not being any place in the township wherein to hold school, and to arrange matters in accordance with convenience as far as possible under the rude circumstances, the centre of the most thickly settled part of the township was deemed the site eligible for the a schoolhouse, which fell upon the northwest quarter of section No. 23 now the farm owned by Christian {{Surname|Yoder}}. Accordingly, and fourthwith there was erected on the site chosen a round-log cabin, 18 by 22 feet adorned with a split-puncheon floor- clap board and weight-pole roof- stick and mud chimney built up on the outside with a large fireplace inside - with two windows, one on each long side, about 10 inches high and 8 feet wide over which were papers pasted saturated with bears oil in service of glass panes. The seats were also made of split-puncheons and the door and desks of clap-boards. Thus finished and furnished the first school house in Green township. The teacher then taught Orthography, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. The text books used were the United State Spelling Book, the Testament, Murrays English Reader, and the Western Calculator. The children and youth of the township in general gathered at the door and around the desks of this rustic little cabin for one year. They here greeted each other with feelings as warm as those who now meet under slated roofs and frescoed ceilings. They reveled in sports as innicant anticipated with hopes as high and rejoiced with hearts of pure as those who now gather to the doors of marble halls.

In 1818 the first school was taught in Green. The first emigrants to the township were from western parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia from localities were to some extend, they had been taught to see and feel the value of education. Stimulated under this sense of feeling with keen vehemence they looked forward to the day that might open to them a school for to educate their children. But, under the servitude of want and privation then holding regency over the domain of the wilderness, they were for the first seven years denied the sacred object of their desire. It was now in the fall of 1818, and a young man by the name of Peter {{Surname|Keane}}, who had made progress in literature at the University of Oxford in England, and had for some time been teaching in Canada, crossed Lake Erie and striking south happened to come to the settled portion of Green township. On his survival here and after making known his profession as a teacher with much joy and gladness the citizens procured his service for one year. There not being any place in the township wherein to hold school, and to arrange matters in accordance with convenience as far as possible under the rude circumstances, the centre of the most thickly settled part of the township was deemed the site eligible for the a schoolhouse, which fell upon the northwest quarter of section No. 23 now the farm owned by Christian {{Surname|Yoder}}. Accordingly, and fourthwith there was erected on the site chosen a round-log cabin, 18 by 22 feet adorned with a split-puncheon floor- clap board and weight-pole roof- stick and mud chimney built up on the outside with a large fireplace inside - with two windows, one on each long side, about 10 inches high and 8 feet wide over which were papers pasted saturated with bears oil in service of glass panes. The seats were also made of split-puncheons and the door and desks of clap-boards. Thus finished and furnished the first school house in Green township. The teacher then taught Orthography, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. The text books used were the United State Spelling Book, the Testament, Murrays English Reader, and the Western Calculator. The children and youth of the township in general gathered at the door and around the desks of this rustic little cabin for one year. They here greeted each other with feelings as warm as those who now meet under slated roofs and frescoed ceilings. They reveled in sports as innicant anticipated with hopes as high and rejoiced with hearts of pure as those who now gather to the doors of marble halls.

The second school taught in Green was a term of four months commencing in the fall of 1822, taught by George Boydston, in a small log cabin then standing on the north east quarter of section No. 29 now the farm owned by John Greeman. The text books and branches taught were the same as those in the school of Mr. Kane. The third school in the township commenced in the fall of 1824, taught by Adam Kieffer in a small cabin erected on the north east quarter of section N. 8 now the farm owned by Joseph Myers. As by this time a number of German families resided within the township German orthography, Reading and Writing were taught in addition to the English branches which had previously been taught. This being the first German teaching in Green. The Free School System which in conformity with the provision of the constitution of Ohio by legislative enactment, had just been introduced and regarded as a settled policy of the inhabitants of the township, but not with the force requisite to its establishment until 1827. Now, having attained a population of 629, of which number 118 were householders, and the agitation of the matter having ripened into achievement pursuant to the call of a meeting of the trustees, Peter Flickinger, Adam Kieffer and Jacob Bowman on the 7th day of November met at the residence of the latter (now the residence of Robert Hutchison) and in compliance with a petition of a majority of districts: pointing out the centre of section No. 11 as location for school house No. 1- the centre of section No. 8 for that of No. 2- the centre of section No. 29 for No. 3 and the centre of section No. 36 as the site for school house No. 4. In the spring following the erection of a school house in each of these districts was contracted for and vigorous efforts were put fourth for to establish the free school system in Green. After two of these buildings were commenced some began with impropriety and protest to look upon the large divisions of the township and the entire proceedure while others deemed the plan eligible and resolved to carry it forward. By this time however, some of the inferior views to those of the first settlers infested the township, some being the "Papal persuasion" preferring illiteracy to learning, some who could neither read nor write denounced education a c(o)urse to the welfare of man.

The second school taught in Green was a term of four months commencing in the fall of 1822, taught by George {{Surname|Boydston}}, in a small log cabin then standing on the north east quarter of section No. 29 now the farm owned by John {{Surname|Greeman}}. The text books and branches taught were the same as those in the school of Mr. {{Surname|Kane}}.  

 

The third school in the township commenced in the fall of 1824, taught by Adam {{Surname|Kieffer}} in a small cabin erected on the north east quarter of section N. 8 now the farm owned by Joseph {{Surname|Myers}}. As by this time a number of German families resided within the township German orthography, Reading and Writing were taught in addition to the English branches which had previously been taught. This being the first German teaching in Green. The Free School System which in conformity with the provision of the constitution of Ohio by legislative enactment, had just been introduced and regarded as a settled policy of the inhabitants of the township, but not with the force requisite to its establishment until 1827. Now, having attained a population of 629, of which number 118 were householders, and the agitation of the matter having ripened into achievement pursuant to the call of a meeting of the trustees, Peter {{Surname|Flickinger}}, Adam {{Surname|Kieffer}} and Jacob {{Surname|Bowman}} on the 7th day of November met at the residence of the latter (now the residence of Robert {{Surname|Hutchison}}) and in compliance with a petition of a majority of districts: pointing out the centre of section No. 11 as location for school house No. 1- the centre of section No. 8 for that of No. 2- the centre of section No. 29 for No. 3 and the centre of section No. 36 as the site for school house No. 4. In the spring following the erection of a school house in each of these districts was contracted for and vigorous efforts were put fourth for to establish the free school system in Green. After two of these buildings were commenced some began with impropriety and protest to look upon the large divisions of the township and the entire procedure while others deemed the plan eligible and resolved to carry it forward. By this time however, some of the inferior views to those of the first settlers infested the township, some being the "Papal persuasion" preferring illiteracy to learning, some who could neither read nor write denounced education a course to the welfare of man.