The Rochester Historical Society Publications XVII: Part I - The History of Education in Rochester; Part II - Selected Articles on Rochester History

viii, [8], 384 pp. 8vo. Map illustrated endpaper. Part I CONTENTS: On The Educational Frontier - Blake McKelvey; The Early History of the Rochester Public Schools: 1813-1850 - A. Laura McGregor; The Rochester Free Academy - M. Lucile Bowen; The Three R's in Rochester: 1850-1900; Elementary and Secondary Catholic Education in Rochester - Dr. Aaron Abell; Private Educational Enterprise Since Mid-Century - Blake McKelvey; The Development of Public Education in Rochester: 1900-1910 - Herbert S. Weet; The Last Twenty-five Years in the Public Schools - Stanley V. Levey; Part II CONTENTS: Some Real Daughters of the American Revolution - Jane M. Chappell; Orsamus Turner - Morley B. Turpin & W. De Witt Manning; Frederick Douglass and John Brown - Benjamin Quarles; The City Manager Movement in Rochester - Isaac Adler; Rochester Since 1915 - Leroy E. Snyder; Membership List of the Society; Index.