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Person · 1878-1952

Florence Susan Spragg was born on October 16, 1878, in Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, to Jane Mason and Arthur Spragg. Her parents had immigrated to the United States from England by the early 1870s, and she was the second of four girls who survived into adulthood. She enrolled in the New Jersey State Normal School in September 1897. She graduated with a certificate to teach primary grades in June 1899, with a final evaluation in Grade Books and Reports, volume 1 on page 88, of: “Has teaching power, but does not herself see essentials. She will interest little children. Judgment has improved very much.” In the 1900 census she was listed as a schoolteacher and living back with her family in Bloomfield. In 1905, she married Thomas Earl Rittenhouse. Their daughter Eleanor Jane was born in 1912 (died in 2004). By the 1920 census, Florence was widowed, and she and her daughter were living with her sister in East Orange, New Jersey. By 1930, she was working as a salesperson in a department store. Two years later, she emigrated to Canada. She died in Toronto on June 9, 1952.

Rogers, Lawrence
Person · fl. ca. 1900

Member of the Model Boys class of 1900; no other information found. May be the same Lawrence Rogers (1883-1959) buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Hamilton Township.

Person · 1911-2003

Vivian M. Rolandelli (1911-2003) graduated from New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton in 1930, and was a teacher for 47 years at Elementary School No. 1 in West New York, New Jersey.

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2021053035 · Person · 1877-1948

Head of the English Department at New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton and member of the Faculty Committee on Assembly Programs. Taught from 1930 to 1947.