Reminiscences of Science Hill School: typescript, 1897, 1956-1897
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Reminiscences of Science Hill School: typescript, 1897, 1956-1897
- Creator
- Ferguson, Mary
- Extent
- 1 reel of microfilm.
- Subjects
- Ferguson, Mary.
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868.
- Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874.
- Science Hill School (Shelbyville, Ky.)
- Education, Secondary--Kentucky.
- Presidents--United States--Election--1856.
- Students.
- Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Student. Mary Ferguson was a student at Science Hill School, Shelbyville, Ky, in the 1850's.
- Scope and Content
- The microfilm contains a copy of Mary Ferguson's "Reminiscences of Science Hill School," a recollection, in 1897, of school days some forty years earlier. She discusses examinations at the school, and the deterioration of children's manners in the years following her childhood. Much of her reminiscences deal with a schoolgirl's feelings about the 1856 presidential election between Millard Filmore and James Buchanan.
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