Nellie Bowen
schoolteacher · active 1899
Teacher of the higher room of the Ocean City public school in 1898–99, who signed the school's annual report of standings printed in the Democratic Messenger on 1 July 1899. She lived near Berlin and went home at weekends; in January 1899 the blizzard kept her from her school until the Tuesday.
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1899
The Ocean City public school in 1899: a "higher room" running to the sixth grade, a teacher named Nellie Bowen, two printed report cards, and a fourteen-year-old top scholar who was dead by April.
The Democratic Messenger printed the Ocean City school's standings twice in 1899. The first, on 14 January, covered 1 October to 1 January and put Elizabeth Quillin first in the sixth grade with a general average of 97, Emily Burwell second and Nellie Dennis third. Elizabeth — "Mary Elizabeth Quillin" — died on 22 April 1899 aged fourteen years, six months and ten days, and her classmates' memorial verse for her filled the head of the Ocean City column of 29 April. The second report, on 1 July, covers "the higher room" for the year and runs sixth, fifth and fourth grades: Emily Burwell first in every sixth-grade subject; Nadine Showell, Rosetta Mumford and Florida Quillin in the fifth; Elma Trimper, Daniel Trimper, Nannie Lewis and Virginia Quillin in the fourth. The teacher signs it NELLIE BOWEN. Two of the fourth grade are Daniel Trimper's children. In March the same column printed, in full, two compositions by "two little girls of Ocean City" on the disadvantages of a long vacation — the earliest writing by Ocean City children this campaign has recovered.
Board of Education of Worcester CountyDaniel Trimper, Sr.
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