Blair, Ed. History of Johnson County, Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas: Standard Publishing Co., 1915.

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A stone building, 40x60 feet, was erected at a cost of $15,000, and was first occupied November 17, 1866, under the superintendency of Joseph Mount. There were eighteen pupils when the school began. Today 250 attended and twenty teachers are employed. The little stone building has been torn down to make room for the main building. In 1873 the extreme east wing was built, by that time the number of pupils had increased to seventy-five. The lateral wing, which connects the main building with the east, came in 1879, the west wing in 1883 and the lateral wing connecting that with the main in 1886 or 1887, and last came the main building, having an appraised value now of $342,225. Mrs. Kate S. Herman has held the superintendency of the school since 1913, and her excellent management of it has attracted favorable comment from all parts of the State. George W. Folmer, who has charge of the commissary department, is a busy man and gives excellent attention to all the details of buying for the institution which spends about $5,000 per month.

Since its founding at Baldwin, in 1861, the following superintendents have had charge: Philip A. Emery, at Baldwin, 1861-64; Benajah R. Nordyke, at Topeka, 1864-65; Joseph Mount, at Baldwin, 1865-67; Thomas Burnsides, at Olathe, 1867; Louis H. Jenkins, at Olathe, 1867-76; Theodore C. Bowles, at Olathe, 1876-79; Jonathan W. Parker, at Olathe, 1879-80; William H. DeMotte, at Olathe, 1880-82; George L. Wyckoff, at Olathe, 1882-83; Henry A. Turton, at Olathe, 1883-85; S. Tefft Walker, at Olathe, 1885-93; J. D Carter, at Olathe, 1893-94; Albert A. Stewart, at Olathe, 1894-95; Henry C. Hammond, at Olathe, 1895-97; Albert A. Stewart, at Olathe, 1897-99; Henry C. Hammond, at Olathe, 1899-1909; Cyrus E. White, at Olathe, 1909-1913; Mrs. Kate S. Herman, 1913.