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| School: Tioga County PA Schools |
| Township: |
| Provisional Teaching Certificate |
| Year: 1863 |
| Submitted by: Clarice STILWELL Evans |
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| The Provisional Teaching Certificate of Eunice Sophia Brewster of
Sullivan Township was issued 18 APR 1863, signed by Hiram C. Johns, County
School Superintendent. Sophie, as she was called then, had to pass a test. The
scale is hard to read on this photocopy of the faded certificate, but 1 was very
good, 2 was good, 3 was middling ( a term we no longer use), 4 was poor, and 5
was very poor. |
| This excerpt from the May 1863 letter of Emma DOTY to her husband
Lemuel WOOD mentions Sophie. "Lizzie is well and goes to school every day she
has not missed a day yet Miss Sophie Brewster is the teacher and the children
like her very much Lizzie says She Shall go to school every day untill she
learns to write a letter to you and then she shall stop going but she like to go
pretty well if She dont I shant send her for she is most to young to go yet."
This would have been in the Holly School District of Sullivan Township - the
North East corner of the township. |
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