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 Among items received is a framed teacher’s penciled list of items
needed for school. Included are: two brooms, three boxes of chalk,
one coal bucket, one feather duster, and two dozen teacher’s
schedules. And the notation, “Also, the clock needs some repairs.”
Other donations from the regional school office include a globe,
long-handled map pull, E. H. Lukenbill’s personal dictionary, the
office seal stamper; three sets of wooden cased antique letter
stampers, a carousel of assorted signature stamps, and copies of The
Logan County School Messenger, dating from 1932, along with yearly
school directories.
Photographs of the Logan County Regional Commissioners and
Superintendents of Schools on display in the LCGHS front window
include those of Levi T. Regan, who served from 1869 to 1873;
Evan P. Gram, 1898-1905; D. F. Nickols, 1905-1916; Donald Splain,
1906-1916; Lukenbill; and more recent superintendents George Janet
and Jean Anderson.
Histories on James G. Chalfant, the first county superintendent of
schools, who served from 1865-1869 for the more than 100 school
districts in Logan County, and again from 1873-1877; William H.
Derby, 1877-1882; Samuel M. Guttery, 1882-1894; J. S. Cole,
1894-1898; William Hackney, the first school commissioner in 1839;
Samuel Briggs, 1843; James Primm, who filled out the unexpired term
and served again in 1846 and 1847; Ezekiel Bowman, 1844-1846; Samuel
Emmett, 1847; Samuel Parks, 1849-1855; J. C. Webster, 1856; J. E.
Cummings, 1857; David James, 1857-1859; William Starkey, 1859; J. H.
Beidler, who established the Teacher Institutes in Logan County,
1861; and A. S. Guthrie, 1863-1865, have been received.
Also in the collection is an Illinois Pupils Reading Circle
completion award signed by Supt. Lukenbill in 1936; a framed listing
of eighth graders in Logan County in 1945; a framed 1945 eighth
grade commencement program; a framed photograph of students of Mrs.
Emma J. Miller at Mill Grove School in Corwin Township, circa 1907;
a framed photo of New Holland School, 1902-1905; and a scholastic
bowl plaque.
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Also received is a 2012 photograph of the Regional Board of
School Trustees; and maps of Logan County town and country schools
and regional school service regions. The LCGHS school collection
also contains the Logan County One Room School book; a wooden armed
desk from a one room school; a tin drinking cup; a variety of old
dictionaries and primers; a bell from a one room school; a 1907
photo of the old Lincoln High School on Broadway Street; and a
Walnut Grove School songbook.
In addition the Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society
holds a collection of yearbooks, beginning with the 1914 Lincoln
High School Panorama, and including yearbooks from Hartsburg-Emden,
Mt. Pulaski; Atlanta, Elkhart, New Holland-Middletown, Forest
City/Manito, Chestnut, and Broadwell. LCHS newsletters are also
available for viewing as are the LCHS Alumni Directory and a
publication on Menard County Schools.
On the college level the following books have been donated to the
Society:
- The Lincoln College Story 1865-1995;
- Lincoln College Emancipator ‘Histories of College’, 1927;
- and Lincoln College the Namesake College, 1865-1965.
The Lincoln College Lincolnians are also housed in the LCGHS
library as are yearbooks from Lincoln Christian College.
[Diane Osborn, LCGHS]
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