19th+century+living-Ashf09

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1. "School was held for ten or twelve weeks in the winter, usually beginning after Thanksgiving. For some children, who weren't needed at home, went to an eight-week term in the summer. Some children went to school nearly every day it was in session; others attended only when their parents did not need them at home." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146
 * Warren Burton, 1852 reminiscence

2. "Here they learned the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, and sometimes went on to geography, history, and English composition." [|http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146] 3. "Most of them attended one-room district schools within walking distance of their homes." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=146
 * Warren Burton, 1852, reminiscence
 * Warren Burton, 1852, reminiscence

4."Our district school was taught by a man in the winter and a young lady in the summer." http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?DocID=987
 * Homer Merriam, 1862, reminiscence