GRATIOT SCHOOL CLASS OF 1904

Notes by Bob Corbett from February 2006:

Mrs. Hefele has a beautiful coin purse from the World's Fair. It is only about 2 inches square, of a lovely heavy cloth, and two postage-stamp sized brass inserts with scenes from the fair. Inside are about 4 tiny pockets and in one of them she found this class list which she assumes is the list of the graduation class of Gratiot School for 1904, since the purse is from the Fair.

The article says:

The graduating exercises of the Gratiot choo1 took place Friday morning. The gladuates are listed below.

I went to the 1900 census and found 9 of the students and they were born between 1893-1895 which would have made them between 13-15 in 1904. I think that is fairly conclusive evidence that this is, indeed, the class of 1904.

The students are:

• Misses Elsie May Young,
• Maud Alice Young,
• Mabel M. O’Donnell,
• Honoria A. Burke,
• Anna F. Morrissey,
• Orela H. Bishop,
• Julia A. H. Vogel,
• Bertha C. Vogel,
• Adele E. Gilligan,
• P. A. M. Diefenbach,
• Nellie Rickert,
• Blanch R. Taylor,
• Dorothy May Hewitt,
• Jessie May Warmack,
• Ethel Jobanna Moller,
• Susan M. Brown,
• Ruth Blair,
• David Walker,
• Claire M. Stacy.