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===Third Schoolhouse===

===Third Schoolhouse===

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. Hence much discord and dissatisfaction ensued and on the night of the second day of November in 1818 after the cabin put up on section No. 8 was finished, and the one on section No. 11 being raised, the former was set on fire and burn down into ashes, and the log walls of the latter were demolished to the ground. So the matter rested at this for about one year. The number of householders now having swollen to 131, and, petitioning anew for small school districts, the township was, on the 25th day of November 1829 divided east and west into three equal ranges of which the northern and southern ones were cut into two equal districts each, and the range in the centre equally into three, making seven districts in the township- not being however all of an equal size. This met the approbation of the citizens with a still less welcome than did the former divisions. Here exertion were taken toward relapse, and for a space of six years no steps were taken toward establishing schools in Green. In this state of things the township scholastically progressed very slowly.

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. Hence much discord and dissatisfaction ensued and on the night of the second day of November in 1818 after the cabin put up on section No. 8 was finished, and the one on section No. 11 being raised, the former was set on fire and burn down into ashes, and the log walls of the latter were demolished to the ground. So the matter rested at this for about one year. The number of householders now having swollen to 131, and, petitioning anew for small school districts, the township was, on the 25th day of November 1829 divided east and west into three equal ranges of which the northern and southern ones were cut into two equal districts each, and the range in the centre equally into three, making seven districts in the township- not being however all of an equal size. This met the approbation of the citizens with a still less welcome than did the former divisions. Here exertion were taken toward relapse, and for a space of six years no steps were taken toward establishing schools in Green. In this state of things the township scholastically progressed very slowly.