[from a postcard mailed in 1902]

        The Sackets Harbor Union School was a wood and brick structure that stood at the southwest corner of Broad St. & West Washington St., just east of the George Tisdale Home. The building was demolished in the early 1900's and replaced by the present school building which stands on South Broad St.

Class of 1890

[Donated by Marilyn (Gordinier) Halstead of Adams] Notes on Students - Edward Cobb married Martha, and in 1923 purchased the old Membery Home in Camps Mills. - Albert Washburn, born 1875, died 1912, was son of Theodore Washburn & Jeanette Rice, daughter of Gen. Albert Rice of Adams, after whom Rice's Corners Cemetery is named. Albert Washburn married on Wedenesday, 11 September 1901, Winifred Armstrong Vincent of Point Peninsula, at her home, Rev. F.H. Richardson officiating. - Homer Washburn, born 1873, died 1924, son of Silas Washburn & Esther Stoodley, was Albert's first cousin (above); he lived on the Washburn Home Farm until his death. He never married. - Annie Godfrey, wife of Prof. John Bronson of Long Island, was daughter of Capt. Ralph Godfrey & Jane Stoodley, thus also a first-cousin of Albert & Homer Washburn (above). Jane occupied her parents' home at 205 West Washington St., Sackets Harbor, known as the Dyer Burnham House. Capt. Ralph Godfrey, along with Jane Stoodley's first cousin Manuel Jeffrey (sexton of Sackets Harbor Presbyterian Church), were both injured in February 1884 during the dismantling of the War of 1812-era ship-of-the-line New Orleans at Sackets Harbor. - Helen Godfrey, was likely a sister of Annie (above).

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Class of Spring 1856

        The following list of names comes from a two-page typed document in a binder relating to the Town of Hounsfield at the Genealogy Department of the Flower Memorial Library in Watertown, Jefferson Co., New York.  The original order has been preserved here, since there appears to be a repeating alphabetical structure that may be a rough indication of different grade levels (though no grades are noted). An alphabetical list is also available here for convenience.

Be sure to scan the entire list for variant name spellings.  For example, Fralick and Fralic are clearly the same surname, but a correlation between Van Plech and Van Fleck may not be so obvious at first glance:

 

"Scholars who attended Sackets Harbor Union School during the spring term 1856 and closing July 25, 1856"

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1856
Jason Phelps
Justice of the Peace

Martha Turner was the teacher