Sunday, March 15, 2015

Unknowns in the Cambridge High School Graduates

In our list of graduates from the Cambridge High School in Cambridge, Iowa, we have names with an unknown year of graduation and years with unknown graduates.  Maybe by listing them here, someone can help sort parts of them out or fill in some blanks.

The years for which we list graduates unknown are 1894 and 1897.  The earliest year for which we list graduates is 1892.  The "Biographical and Historic Memoirs of Story County, Iowa" (1890) cited in our book states "but as yet no graduation has been had." so around 1892 for the first graduates would be consistent.
 
The unknown year of graduation graduates list (converted to alphabetical order) is:

BeckSmith
BenferCharles
BenferEva
BossoutSylvia
ClawsonElizabeth
ClawsonRuth
CronkFanny
ErslandKnute
GuthrieBess
LivingstonGrafton
MaxwellAddie
MaxwellFanny
MaxwellGeorge
NellisJennie
PresnallSarah
SeversonGeorge
SnyderCharles
TesdahlMartha
ThompsonMinnie
WhiteCharles
WhiteLara

And in looking at the list I noticed a Fanny Cronk listed as graduating in 1898, presumably the same person as on our list of unknown year of graduation.  As we do our electronic version of this list, we may be able to find others that do not belong on the unknown year of graduation list.

If you can help us with any of these names, please let us know.  Or if they may be relatives you are searching, let us know that; it is possible we have other information about them.

To learn much more about the history of Cambridge education, see our second book and its expanded table of contents.  Which is still for sale.