William Young Bellerjeau was born in 1882 in New Jersey. He was a member of the Thencanic Society in the late 1890s to 1900 and graduated from the Model School in 1900. He died in 1963 in Vermont.
Alfred Peter Skillman Bellis was born in 1880. He was a member of Model School class of 1900, and graduated from Lehigh University in 1909. in 1912, he married Ida Gants Davies (Model School class of 1902, Normal School class of 1905). He was Chief electrical engineer for John A. Roebling's Sons, Co. until 1948, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Trenton Free Public Library from 1927 to 1933, and member or officer of numerous other local organizations. He died in 1959.
Stephen Weart Blackwell was born in 1866 to New Jersey State Senator Jonathan Blackwell. He was a member of the Thencanic Society and graduated from the Model School in 1884. He married Emily Thomas Lake (1882-1906) in 1901. He perished in the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic along with Washington Roebling II, in 1912.
William Hartwell Blackwell was born in 1882. He was a member of the Thencanic Society in the 1890s and graduated from the Model School in 1901. In 1905, he married Bertha Allen (1883-1968) who was also a 1901 Model School graduate. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate. He died in 1963.
Sallie McRae was born on September 7, 1863, to Georgiana “Georgie” Gary and Walter H. McRae in North Carolina. The family made their way north in the early 1870s, and by 1880, Sallie was living with her widowed mother and siblings in Hackensack, New Jersey. She attended the Normal School where she studied the Advanced Course and graduated in June 1882. She taught in the Hackensack Schools (New Jersey) for several years. On June 19, 1893, she married Cornelius Blauvelt and they remained in Hackensack, where she died May 3, 1945.
Don Carroll Bliss was born in 1868 in Vermont. In 1892 he graduated from Dartmouth College. He was Principal and president of New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton from 1923 to 1930. He died in 1945.
Elisabeth Bodine (1880-1964), was a graduate of the Model School Class of 1898, Normal School Class of February 1913, and Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Trenton Junior High School No. 3 and was an English teacher at Trenton High School. After retiring from teaching, she became a librarian at Trenton Public Library. She was a founding member and honoree of the Trenton College Club (which later became a branch of the American Association of University Women) and served in a variety of civic, cultural, and historical organizations around Trenton. She lived with Gertrude Scudder Bodine and her brother Joseph Bodine throughout their marriage, and then moved with Gertrude to Morrisville, Pennsylvania after Joseph’s death in 1950. Elisabeth died on January 14, 1964.
Frances “Fannie” Pamela Davis was born on April 6, 1844, to Elizabeth Kallam and James M. Davis, in Trenton, New Jersey. She graduated with above average grades in the first class of the Model School in January 1860. In 1874, she married Joseph L. Bodine (1839-1889). Their children were: Joseph L. Bodine (1883-1950), who later married Gertrude Scudder Bodine, Model School graduate class of 1911; and Elisabeth Davis Bodine (1880-1964), who graduated from the Model School in 1898, and Normal School in February 1913. Fannie died on December 29, 1909, in Trenton.
Gertrude Scudder Bodine (1894-1978) was a graduate of Model School class of 1911. She was born at the “Cherry Grove” estate in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the only child to the later in life marriage of Joseph Rue Scudder (1851-1895), and Gertrude Mae McCully (1860-1944), an organist and librarian at Princeton University. After graduating from the Model School, she attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1915. She taught English and Latin in Junior High School No. 1 in Trenton. In 1918, she married Joseph Lamb Bodine (1883-1950), who also attended the Model School a decade earlier. Joseph Bodine served as U.S. District Attorney for New Jersey, Judge of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, Associate Justice of the New Jersey State Supreme Court, and later Superior Court Judge. They had one son, John W. Bodine.
After her marriage, Gertrude served extensively as a volunteer in civic, cultural, and historical organizations in the Trenton area. She served on the board and later as president of the historic William Trent House museum for 35 years. She was also very active in, and served several years as president of, the Junior League of Trenton, First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and the Trenton YWCA.
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, 1890s. Later a Princeton graduate and a judge of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey. Grandson of Trenton mayor (1877-1879) Daniel Bodine.
