Part IV - Education, a supplement to the Big Rapids Pioneer Newspaper. Used with permission.

LYDIA WILDER FIRST TEACHER IN GRANT TOWNSHIP

Information regarding the jubilee will be sent to Mrs. Lydian E. Wilder, the Dales, Oregon. She was the first school teacher in Grant Township, teaching in what is now the Reed School. It is supposed t6hat this was in 1869-1870.

Source: Taken from March 28, 1930 Pioneer article written for the Diamond Jubilee of Big Rapids.

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