Chandler Township School (SD No. 3)
[Also known as Beechwood School and the Mackie School ~ Private Residence 2013]
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6 January 1886 ~ The Petoskey Record
"Mr. Will Pearson has good success in his school in district No. 3. Will is a good teacher.
He has 22 scholars, the largest school in the township."
He has 22 scholars, the largest school in the township."
William Pearson was a teacher in the Mackie School Building (SD No. 3). William Pearson served four years as sheriff and four years as Register of Deeds of Charlevoix County. He also served two terms in the House and two in the State Senate. While teaching in the Mackie School, he was the first teacher of Marion Mackie Wood. In later years Marion taught in this school.
Photo Above: Shawn Beeler, the daughter of Earl Eastwood (1947 ~ 2011), and the granddaughter of John Eastwood (1887 ~ 1969), does not have a positive label on this school photo. The 45-star flag displayed in the photo, however, became the 45 star flag on 4 July 1896 and lasted for 12 years, so until 1908. In comparing the appearance of this school house with the other Chandler Schools listed on this website, with the three windows on a side, does compare most closely with the Mackie School which was up the road from the Eastwood home in the early 1900s, so in close proximity to the Eastwood Family. In the photo above, the school does not appear to have a front enclosed porch like the Mackie school in the photos below, but the porch could have been added later. The chimneys, in both photos, both seem to be in the same spot. The Mackie School was certainly going in the early 1900s, so it is a definite possibility that the photo above was the Mackie School.
Photo Below: In the July 1928 photo Helen A. Sciezka's mother Lillian Rita (Gilbert) Scieszka stood beside the school house.
Her Gilbert Family lived close to where the Gallop Cemetery is located today.
Her Gilbert Family lived close to where the Gallop Cemetery is located today.
~ TEACHERS ~
1886 ~ Mr. Will Pearson
1901 ~ Miss Mable Snyder
1910 ~ Hazel Batterbee
Connie Gallop
1886 ~ Mr. Will Pearson
1901 ~ Miss Mable Snyder
1910 ~ Hazel Batterbee
Connie Gallop
Miss Mable Snyder was hired to teach in the Chandler Township Charelvoix County Public School of District No. 3
commencing 2 September 1901.
Miss Snyder was later married to Carl Clark.
George Gallop was the Director of the Chandler Township Schools.
Years later Connie Gallop was the treasurer of the Chandler Township School Board.
commencing 2 September 1901.
Miss Snyder was later married to Carl Clark.
George Gallop was the Director of the Chandler Township Schools.
Years later Connie Gallop was the treasurer of the Chandler Township School Board.
John Mackie died at 18 years old of polio 4 October 1916. John was the son of William and Florence Hughes Mackie. The Death Certificate state the cause as "Acute Polio Myelitis and Infantile Paralysis."
Also, Wesley Sage died of polio ("Infantile Paralysis") at that same time. Wesley (born 24 September 1899) died 18 October 1916 and was buried 19 October 1916 in Chandler Twp Cemetery.
John Mackie's sister Katherine "Kittie" Mackie married 31 August 1925 in Detroit MI to Theron Connell. She was married a year and a day and they were planning a nice anniversary celebration (because they both had worked they were waiting for Saturday). It was very tragic. She was not yet 25. She was 24 on March 25, 1926, and died October 1926. She possibly died of a stroke while brushing her hair.
Stella I. Rice was the daughter of Alva J. and Lena Thebalt Rice. Stella married 4 November 1924 in the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Petoskey MI to Frank Lee West who was a long time law enforcement agent in the Petoskey area. Stella worked for Michigan Bell Telephone Company in Petsokey for 15 years, and at the Emmet County Jail as a matron for 10 years.
Cecil E. Mitchell was the step son of Wilbert and Eveline Mitchell Rice.
Alma White lived most of her life in Winnepeg Canada, but made a few trips back to Chandler Hill where she stayed with her aunt and uncle Marion and Howard Wood, just around the corner from the Mackie School. Alma's mother Agnes (married John White) had been born in Canada, and was a sister to Marion Mackie Wood.
Howardine Wood was the daughter of Howard and Marion Mackie Wood. She married John Bush who was killed at only age 41, in a vehicle accident in Gary IN while working there in a steel mill. Howardine and John had three children, one of whom was Marion Bush who was born in the home of her grandparents Howard and Marion Mackie Wood just around the corner from this Mackie School. Marion Bush also was married in that same house, to Karl "Cub" Howard who also lived on top of Chandler Hill.
Mabel Potts, daughter of Charles & Ella Rice Potts, married George Thebolt. George and Mabel moved to Wyoming and then on to California where they raised 2 children. Mabel's two sisters, Emma Adaline and Luvinna (known as Donna) both died as teenagers. Emma died in 1906 of a "Cerebrel Hemorrhage". Luvinna died in 14 December 1909 [COD not written clearly]. I wonder why she was not in the photo above which was taken in the Fall of 1909? Both girls, Emma and Luvinna, were buried in the Gallop Cemetery. Mabel was the youngest of the three.
Perry "Pete" Mackie married Lucy Ormond 28 February 1920 in Boyne Falls MI. Pete worked at the cement plant near Petoskey where he succumbed to a heart attack in 1957.
Ellen Sage was a sister to Wesley Sage. Wesley and Ellen Sage's family members are pictured on the Pioneer People page on this website. Ellen married Dalton Eastwood. In Marion Mackie Wood's 1946 diary the following note was made: "Ella Sage Livermore CA".
Also, Wesley Sage died of polio ("Infantile Paralysis") at that same time. Wesley (born 24 September 1899) died 18 October 1916 and was buried 19 October 1916 in Chandler Twp Cemetery.
John Mackie's sister Katherine "Kittie" Mackie married 31 August 1925 in Detroit MI to Theron Connell. She was married a year and a day and they were planning a nice anniversary celebration (because they both had worked they were waiting for Saturday). It was very tragic. She was not yet 25. She was 24 on March 25, 1926, and died October 1926. She possibly died of a stroke while brushing her hair.
Stella I. Rice was the daughter of Alva J. and Lena Thebalt Rice. Stella married 4 November 1924 in the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Petoskey MI to Frank Lee West who was a long time law enforcement agent in the Petoskey area. Stella worked for Michigan Bell Telephone Company in Petsokey for 15 years, and at the Emmet County Jail as a matron for 10 years.
Cecil E. Mitchell was the step son of Wilbert and Eveline Mitchell Rice.
Alma White lived most of her life in Winnepeg Canada, but made a few trips back to Chandler Hill where she stayed with her aunt and uncle Marion and Howard Wood, just around the corner from the Mackie School. Alma's mother Agnes (married John White) had been born in Canada, and was a sister to Marion Mackie Wood.
Howardine Wood was the daughter of Howard and Marion Mackie Wood. She married John Bush who was killed at only age 41, in a vehicle accident in Gary IN while working there in a steel mill. Howardine and John had three children, one of whom was Marion Bush who was born in the home of her grandparents Howard and Marion Mackie Wood just around the corner from this Mackie School. Marion Bush also was married in that same house, to Karl "Cub" Howard who also lived on top of Chandler Hill.
Mabel Potts, daughter of Charles & Ella Rice Potts, married George Thebolt. George and Mabel moved to Wyoming and then on to California where they raised 2 children. Mabel's two sisters, Emma Adaline and Luvinna (known as Donna) both died as teenagers. Emma died in 1906 of a "Cerebrel Hemorrhage". Luvinna died in 14 December 1909 [COD not written clearly]. I wonder why she was not in the photo above which was taken in the Fall of 1909? Both girls, Emma and Luvinna, were buried in the Gallop Cemetery. Mabel was the youngest of the three.
Perry "Pete" Mackie married Lucy Ormond 28 February 1920 in Boyne Falls MI. Pete worked at the cement plant near Petoskey where he succumbed to a heart attack in 1957.
Ellen Sage was a sister to Wesley Sage. Wesley and Ellen Sage's family members are pictured on the Pioneer People page on this website. Ellen married Dalton Eastwood. In Marion Mackie Wood's 1946 diary the following note was made: "Ella Sage Livermore CA".
Everyone in the photo above can be found on the searchable 1910 Chandler Township Census Record,
except for the teacher Lottie Gladding.
except for the teacher Lottie Gladding.
The state school inspector traveled around and visited the various county schools, including the Mackie School.
9 November 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News reported: "The Mackie School commenced again Oct. 30
after being closed several weeks on account of infantile paralysis."
This was at the time that John Mackie and Wesley Sage both died of polio.
~ School Chums ~
Howardine Wood (in photos below) wrote the following memory in her scrapbook: "Howardine and her friends Mary Sage, Ellen Sage, and Myrtle Shaver and sister Isabel, and cousin Kittie Mackie used to use an old plank for a sled, or toboggan, on Niveson Hill by the school, Chandler Township #3. Howardine wore her Dad's old felt hat with holes cut out for summer, but she had a lot of hair and didn't mind the ventilation in the winter."
L>R: Howardine Wood Bush Plumb, Kittie Mackie, Ellen Sage Eastwood, Isabell Wood Oldham, Mary Sage Griffen
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L>R: Howardine Wood Bush Plumb, Kittie Mackie, Ellen Sage Eastwood, Isabell Wood Oldham, Mary Sage Griffen [See the drawings below of Howardine Wood Bush Plumb of entries her Chandler Township S.D. No. 3 teacher Connie Gallop submitted to the Cheboygan County MI Fair, for Howardine.]
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In about 1913 Howardine Wood's, and Isabel Wood's [in the two photos above], brother Jerome would have been old enough to start school. In 2014 Jerome's daughter Marianne Wood Arnold told the following story about her dad Jerome's first days of attending school.... " When it came time for my dad to start school, he decided he wasn't going to go, he didn't like the idea, and besides he didn't need to. Jerome's mother [Marion Mackie Wood] was beside herself. She wanted to convince him he would love school, so she tried to coax and cajole him and told him he'd love it. She enlisted his sisters Howardine and Isabel to talk him into it. No dice, he wasn't having anything to do with school.
After watching all this, Jerome's Grandpa John Mackie spoke up and suggested to Jerome's mother that she let him try his hand at it. She agreed and the two of them went off in a corner to discuss the matter. The next day Jerome got up early, got dressed, ate a quick breakfast and went off to school with his sisters. No complaints, perfectly willing. His mother quizzed Grandpa Mackie [her dad]- what on earth had he said to Jerome? He grinned and said it was just an arrangement between two men.
This went on for a couple months, with Jerome quite happily going to school and really beginning to like it. Then one day Jerome's mother walked into the room unexpectedly and there was Grandpa handing Jerome a nice shiny quarter - he'd been paying Jerome a quarter a week - a handsome sum for the time - to go to school. Jerome had quite a nice collection of quarters in an old tin box under his bed.
Years later, when Jerome's mother was visiting Jerome's family in Miami, when they got to talking about it and she said she hadn't known what to do - she didn't want Jerome to revert back to refusing to go and she didn't want to embarrass her father. So she just pretended she hadn't seen a thing. It went on for a while longer, until as Jerome said, 'Grandpa knew I really liked school and would go anyway, so the quarter for school ended and I got a quarter a week for 'helping him out', as he put it.'
By the time Jerome was eight or nine the school teacher had hired him - for a quarter a week, it seems to have been the going wage - to go to school early and start the fire in the wood stove, so it would be reasonably warm when the teacher got there and she wouldn't have to do it. He did it for a week and announced his fee was going up to fifty cents, and it was just too cold for a quarter. They negotiated for forty cents." ~ Marianne Wood Arnold
After watching all this, Jerome's Grandpa John Mackie spoke up and suggested to Jerome's mother that she let him try his hand at it. She agreed and the two of them went off in a corner to discuss the matter. The next day Jerome got up early, got dressed, ate a quick breakfast and went off to school with his sisters. No complaints, perfectly willing. His mother quizzed Grandpa Mackie [her dad]- what on earth had he said to Jerome? He grinned and said it was just an arrangement between two men.
This went on for a couple months, with Jerome quite happily going to school and really beginning to like it. Then one day Jerome's mother walked into the room unexpectedly and there was Grandpa handing Jerome a nice shiny quarter - he'd been paying Jerome a quarter a week - a handsome sum for the time - to go to school. Jerome had quite a nice collection of quarters in an old tin box under his bed.
Years later, when Jerome's mother was visiting Jerome's family in Miami, when they got to talking about it and she said she hadn't known what to do - she didn't want Jerome to revert back to refusing to go and she didn't want to embarrass her father. So she just pretended she hadn't seen a thing. It went on for a while longer, until as Jerome said, 'Grandpa knew I really liked school and would go anyway, so the quarter for school ended and I got a quarter a week for 'helping him out', as he put it.'
By the time Jerome was eight or nine the school teacher had hired him - for a quarter a week, it seems to have been the going wage - to go to school early and start the fire in the wood stove, so it would be reasonably warm when the teacher got there and she wouldn't have to do it. He did it for a week and announced his fee was going up to fifty cents, and it was just too cold for a quarter. They negotiated for forty cents." ~ Marianne Wood Arnold
Photos left and above told: Connie Weber Gallop taught Chandler Township S.D. No. 3 in 1915 when Howardine Wood (Bush Plumb) was in the 8th grade. The photo above told of Kittie [Mackie], in the "school chums" photo above, had baked bread to enter into the fair competition, but learned Kittie was too young, so the judges would not accept her entry. Jim Milford was a businessman from Springvale.
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From the 1918 article below, it seems that the Mackie School students were being transported to the Springvale School.
Perhaps this was the closing of the Mackie School. Does anyone know when the Mackie School closed?
Perhaps this was the closing of the Mackie School. Does anyone know when the Mackie School closed?
Marion Mackie Wood wrote in her June 14, 1949 diary: "A nice conservation fellow was just here & he's looking for a place for a radio tower & is considering the school house site. - I wonder if I'd like that? He says this is 1260 feet above sea level- Gaylord is 1350-90 feet difference."
"Moved and seconded to plow, drag, ? and level the school yard---sold to William Mackie for $13.25 to be done by October 1. Carried" In 1890 William Mackie was paid $10.25 for plowing and dragging and brushing school ground.
Marion Mackie Wood wrote in her January 2, 1948 diary: "Geo. Peters & Ralph P. came & got some seats & one of the old bookcases at the school house."