Model School Class of ca. 1888 and Thencanic Society member. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72551933/j-clarence-smith
Rebecca S. Smith was born in approximately 1842. She entered the New Jersey State Normal School on September 2, 1861, and listed her hometown as Trenton. She graduated in 1863, and her final averages, printed in the Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Normal School 1863, indicated that she was among the top of her class. She received a Teachers’ Provisional Certificate on July 16, 1863, for Delaware County, Pennsylvania. A year later, she applied and was rejected for a job at the Philadelphia Mercantile Library. Her collection was donated by her nephew Dewitt Clinton Smith of Pennsylvania, whose father, Albert Smith, lived in Trenton.
Cedenia Frazee was born on September 30, 1852, to Margaret Littell and Shotwell Frazee in Rahway, New Jersey. She graduated from the Normal School in 1870, receiving a certificate of merit for “best in constitution” in her class. She married physician Lewis A. Snell on July 7, 1879, in Rahway, then shortly afterward moved to Michigan where her husband practiced medicine. By 1914, they had moved to Los Angeles, California for her health, and where their daughter, Ida Snell (Prall), was a schoolteacher. She died on May 3, 1922, in Los Angeles.
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Brother of Raymond. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156793012/persifor-gybbon-spilsbury
Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Brother of Persifor. No FindAGrave page; FamilySearch ID: 94HG-1NK.
Model School Class of ca. 1894; Thencanic Society member. No FindAGrave or FamilySearch pages, but found in census records.
Model School Class of ca. 1916, although she does not appear in the commencement booklet for that year. Philomathean Society president, 1916. FamilySearch ID LT4X-LPY.
Supervisor in the Model School and Thencanic Society founder, ca. 1880s-1890s. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187245508/oliver-p-steves
Juliaette Stewart was born on March 30, 1878, to Hannah Headley and Charles Henry Stewart in Essex County, New Jersey. She attended the Normal School at Trenton where she was a reporter for the Signal student newspaper. Stewart received the final evaluation of “Bright, attractive manner. Talks too much. Purpose not always clear. Will succeed with children,” in Grade Books and Reports, volume 1, page 42. She graduated in June 1897. She began teaching at Maplewood School, then became the Principal of Fielding School in South Orange, where she worked for 29 years until her retirement in 1943. She died on October 14, 1947.
