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History of Rush County Indiana
Brant & Fuller
Chicago
1888
Page 803
Ripley TownshipsMany of the first settlers in Ripley Township came from
North
Carolina. They were Friends, their fathers had settled in that State before
the Constitution
of the United States had been adopted, recognizing or permitting the enslavement
of the
African Race. To the institution of slavery they were not friendly, and
this is probably the
prime cause of their migration. Into Ripley Township they came in goodly
numbers and
when they had prepared their cabins for their Lomes they immediately set
to work to
building meeting houses and school houses. About the first school in Ripley
Township
was taught in the Walnut Ridge log-meeting house in 1826, by Joshua Pool.
Micajah C.
Binford, who is among the earliest settlers in this township (though not
the earliest) says
"that Pool taught awhile and Nathan Hill," finished the school in the early
spring of 1827.
Other teachers here were: Isaac White, 1828; Robert Harrison, 1831; Elisha
Hobbs,
Nathan Warrington, Thomas Moore, Anna Macy.