King School History home King School
King District—Isaac N. Johnson, James Pitts and Orvllle Frost, directors; Miss Alice Peterson, teacher.
Term began November 4th and continues four mouths. District enumeration 72, enrollment over fifteen
years of age 8, total 31, present 23. School house third-class, furniture first-class. Seating capacity 24.
This is Miss Peterson's third term aud her school compares favorably in deportment and recitations with
any in the township. The reading recitation witnessed was excellent. Mr. Pitts, member of school board,
visited with me.
1878 Jasper County School Report by S. A. Underwood
A History of Jasper County, Missouri and Its People, Volume 1, page 105, pub. 1912, by Joel Thomas Livingston.