{"id":20741,"date":"2017-03-22T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=20741"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T14:16:34","slug":"where-did-you-go-to-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/where-did-you-go-to-elementary-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Did You Go to Elementary School?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this old letter that announced the 2nd grade classroom assignment for my brother, Pete Kemp. In 1955 he was assigned to be in Room 8 in the new building at Katherine T. Murphy School in the Cove in Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Source: Thomas Jay Kemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That got me to wondering more about the history of that school.<\/p>\n

Turning to GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I found several interesting articles.<\/p>\n

This article from the Stamford Advocate<\/em> reports that the new schoolhouse opened on 16 April 1900.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 12 April 1900, page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another article reports that Miss Katherine Murphy began as a teacher at the previous elementary school, the old Cove School, in 1893. It was then a one-room schoolhouse. At that time, Cove School was one of only two schools in Stamford.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 8 September 2000, page 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the school was expanded to two rooms and moved to its present location in 1900, Murphy was one of two teachers. She became principal there in 1913.<\/p>\n

The school was renamed in her honor in 1946 and she retired in 1948.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank.com, Daily Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 20 May 2000, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Murphy died 27 March 1966 at a retirement home in Trumbull, Connecticut. She was buried with her family in St. John Cemetery on the border of Darien and Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 28 March 1966, page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s your family history: get the details, document it and preserve it.<\/p>\n

Fill in the facts supporting your family\u2019s stories in the old newspapers in GenealogyBank<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article about Katherine T. Murphy and the school named after her in Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,2020],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/illustration-0322-2017-featured-graphic-school-desk.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}