Bailey, Dana R. History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Sioux Falls: Brown & Saenger, 1899.

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was the sum of $56,000, obtained in February, 1887. A shop building was erected, also a barn, both build of Sioux Falls granite. A water tank holding 525 barrels, and a wind mill were put up, and twenty acres of land adjoining the original site were purchased.

Up to the summer of 1887, the superintendent and his wife, with an assistant part of the time, were the only teachers, but the school had increased to such proportions that additional teachers were needed.

The opening of the school in the fall of 1887 saw three teachers, appointed during the summer ready to take up the work. These were Miss Emma Von Behren, Miss M. Frances Walker and Mr. H. McP. Hofsteater. After a year of teaching, Miss Walker resigned her position and was succeeded by Mr. Frank R. Wright. After another year Miss Von Behren resigned her position as teacher and accepted that of matron of the school, which position had been held for five years by Miss Ida E. Wright. Previous to the appointment of Miss Wright as matron, Miss Kate Harrington held this position for a short time. Mrs. M. L. Simpson was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Miss Von Behren's resignation. Mrs. Simpson had been for several years a teacher in the St. Louis day school for the deaf. Miss Von Behren held her position as matron until 1891, when she resigned and was succeeded by Miss M. Frances Walker, formerly a teacher at the school. Mr. Wright also resigned in 1891, and Miss Von Behren again became a teacher. In 1892, Mr. Hofsteater resigned and Phil L. Axling, one of the first graduates of the school, was appointed to fill the vacancy.

An art department was created in the latter part of 1889, and Charles A. Locke, a graduate of the Iowa school for the deaf, was appointed instructor. Failure to obtain sufficient provision for the maintenance of the department, caused it to be discontinued, and Mr. Locke left the school in the spring of 1892.

In August, 1887, a boys' supervisor and a night watchman were appointed, W. E. Dobson and H. J. Harlow filling these positions. Two years later both of them resigned, and C. R. Hemstreet and A. T. Richardson were appointed. Mr. Hemstreet resigned in July, 1892, and was succeeded by John Griffiths.

In the fall of 1889 the territory was divided and the states of North and South Dakota were created. The following winter the North Dakota legislature established a school for her deaf children. As a result of a conference between Governor Mellette of South Dakota and Governor Miller of North Dakota, the children of the last mentioned state attending school at Sioux Falls were sent home in April, 1890. Prior to that time the pupils in the South Dakota school numbered forty-seven. Thirteen belonged to North Dakota, and before the close of the term one or two others had left the school, leaving thirty-two pupils. Within three years after, the number of pupils had increased to forty-eight, while at the same time ten or twelve had graduated, or left never to return as pupils.

During the year 1892, a ninety-ton round silo was built, and the same year it was filled with corn ensilage, raised on the twenty acres of land belonging to the school. This ensilage constituted almost