List of Sources for Alameda County Schools

Newspaper Items

Listed by date, grouped by "school year", which usually means July 1 through June 30 (unless we happen to know the actual dates set by the county) with the following important exceptions: (1) items that pertain to the election of teachers for the next school year will be listed under that school year, even if the date of the item is before the actual start of that school year; (2) items about summer vacation activities will be listed under the school year just ended, even if the date of the item is in the next school year. Order of elements in citations: name of newspaper (from the masthead, not the digital archive), date of publication, page, column, any other information that might be helpful in finding the item on the page, such as titles, headlines, section headings, etc. Most of the items are untitled. Most titles and headlines are not useful for anything other than providing some help in finding the item on the page, and that is why I have relegated them to the end of the citation.

1876–1877

• • Oakland Daily Transcript, 25 Feb 1877, pg 3, col 3, under "Educational: List of Teachers in Country Precincts of Alameda County
  • Item Number: n758
  • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1877–1878 school year

  • • Oakland Daily Trancsript, 18 Dec 1877 pg 3, col 3, excerpt under "School District Boundaries", from "Board of Supervisors", cols 2–4
    • Item Number: n634
    • Summary: An expcerpt from an article on a meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, on a report, titled "School District Boundaries", submitted to the Board by the Superintendent of Schools. The report was adopted by the Board and was published in installments in the Oakland Daily Transcript. See below.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • "School District Boundaries", 5 items, Oakland Daily Transcript, 19–23 Dec 1877
  • Item Number: n628
  • • • Oakland Daily Transcript, 19 Dec 1877, pg 3, cols 2-3, under "School District Boundaries: A Full Description of Each as Now Existing"
      • Item Number: n629
      • Summary: "boundaries of the several school districts of this county as presented by the County Superintendent to the Board of Supervisors ... and adopted by said Board". The newspaper will publish the information in daily segments until it is complete. This issue includes the following districts: Alameda, Alvarado, Alviso, Bay, Castro Valley, Centreville, Cosmopoitian, Eden Vale, and Eureka.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
      • Alternate Source: CDNC
    • • Oakland Daily Transcript, 20 Dec 1877, pg 3, cols 2-3, under "School District Boundaries, As Defined by Superintendent Lynch"
      • Item Number: n630
      • Summary: Includes the following districts: Fruit Vale, Green, Harris, Inman, Laurel, Lincoln, Livermore, Lockwood, May, Melrose, Midway, Mission, and Mountain.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
      • Alternate Source: CDNC
    • • Oakland Daily Transcript, 21 Dec 1877, pg 3, col 4, under "School District Boundaries"
      • Item Number: n631
      • Summary: Includes the following districts: Mowry's Landing, Murray, Niles, Oakland, and Ocean View.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
      • Alternate Source: CDNC
    • • Oakland Daily Transcript, 22 Dec 1877, pg 3, cols 2-3, under "School District Boundaries"
      • Item Number: n632
      • Summary: Includes the following school districts: Palomares, Piedmont, Peralta, Pleasanton, Redwood, Rosedale, San Lorenzo, Stony Brook, Summit, Sunol, and Temescal.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
      • Alternate Source: CDNC
    • • Oakland Daily Transcript, 23 Dec 1877, pg 1, col 2, under "School District Boundaries"
      • Item Number: n633
      • Summary: Includes the following school districts: Townsend, Union, Vallecitos, Warm Springs, Washington, and Wilson.
      • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
      • Alternate Source: CDNC

  1881–1882 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 17 June 1882, pg 1, col 2, under "Applicants for Examination"
    • Item Number: n637
    • Summary: "The following is the list of applicants for examination now in progress before the County Board of Examination, at the High School: ... from Livermore, Misses Jennie Doyle, Ada May, Maggie McKee, Kate Davis, Mrs. N. Hornick, Messrs. Orville Biggs, S. J. Harris, Wm. McDonald; ...."
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Alternate Source: CDNC

  1883–1884 school year

  • • Sunday Times (Oakland), 23 Dec 1883, pg 3, col 2, under "Certificates Granted"
    • Item Number: n639
    • Summary: Teachers' certificates granted by the County Board of Education as a result of the examination: Among those granted second grade certificates, Maggie McKee.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Alternate Source:
      • • Oakland Tribune, 22 Dec 1883, pg 1, col 4, under "The Result of the Examination"
        • Item Number: n638
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1885–1886 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 30 June 1885, pg 3, col 2, under "Certificates Granted"
    • Item Number: n640
    • Summary: Teachers' Certificates granted.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Alternate Source: Not in the CDNC
  • • Oakland Daily Times, 31 July 1885, pg 3, col 6, under "County Teachers: A Full List, Excluding Oakland"
    • Item Number: n641
    • Summary: Said to be provided by the County Superintendent. I am assuming that it is for the coming school year, which starts in July or August for most schools.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC
    • Alternate Source:
      • • Oakland Tribune, 30 July 1885, pg 3, col 5, under "County Teachers: A Full List, Excluding Oakland"
        • Item Number: n642
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC

  1887–1888 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 9 July 1887, pg 5, col 5, under "Country Schools: Election of Teachers and Appointment of Trustees"
    • Item Number: n643
    • Summary: Election of teachers in the "country schools" (meaning, evidently, other than Oakland), as reported by the individual districts to the Alameda County Superintendant of Schools.
    • Excerpts:
      • Livermore — William Cowdery, principal, and Esther Frank, Maggie McKee, Grace Campbell, Mary Tuttle, and Emma C. Smith, assistants; Miss Hunt was not re-elected.
      • Townsend — Mrs. Ella Gregory
      • Highland — Miss Phoebe Parker
      • Wilson — Georgia Clayton
      • Arroyo Valle — Miss Emily Wade
      • Midway — Miss Mary Anway
      • Vallecitos — Miss Fannie Long
      • Rosedale — Miss Mamie Bass
      • La Coste — Miss Frances Sunol
      • Pleasanton — [among others] Ada May
      • Inman, Altamont, Harris — no returns
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • • Oakland Tribune, 28 March 1888, pg 1, cols 5-7, under "The Teachers: Session of the Institute of Alameda County"
    • Item Number: n644
    • Summary: includeds a list of teachers
    • Excerpts:
      • Arroyo Valle—Miss Fannie Kirk
      • Green—William McDonald
      • Harris—Miss Frances O'Brien
      • Highland—Miss Ada Crawford
      • Inman—Miss E. A. Colehan
      • Livermore—William A. Cowdey, Miss Esther Frank, Miss Maggie McKee, Miss Emma C. Smith, Miss Mary Tuttle, Miss Grace Campbell, Miss Kate Davis
      • May—Miss Mamie Bass
      • Pleasanton—[among others] Miss Ada May
      • Rosedale—Miss Gertie Steane
      • Summit—Miss Mary E. Holmes
      • Townsend—Mrs. Ella L. Gregory
      • Vallecitos—Edward Harms
      • Vista—Miss Phoebe L. Parker
      • Wilson—Miss Gertrude Abell
      • Also a list of "Special Teachers" that include some of the above
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Alternate Source: CDNC
    • Note: The same (as far as I can tell without checking word for word) article appears in the Morning Times (Oakland), 29 March 1888, pg 3, cols 1-3 (with same Esther "Frautk"/"Frank" in the teachers for Livermore). There are some differences with the 9 July Oakland Tribune list (see n643 above)

  1889–1890 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 19 Oct 1889, pg 3, col 3, excerpt from "County Schools"
    • Item Number: n645
    • Summary: List of the trustees in all the Alameda County school districts
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1890–1891 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 14 June 1890, pg 3, col 3, under "County Schools: Many Positions of Teachers To Be Filled": Examinations for Certificates"
    • Item Number: n392
    • Summary: Reports that the semi-annual examination for county teachers' cetificates is scheduled to begin on June 17. Goes over some of the rules.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1891–1892 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 22 July 1891, pg 3, col 2, untitled item under "Livermore"
    • Item Number: n396
    • Summary: New Livermore area teachers elected: Miss Mary Kane of Amador county, was chosen for the new dapartment of the primary grades in the Public School. Cora Boone resigned; her successor has not yet been elected. Lizzie Waltenbaugh elected teacher in Rosedale school; Sarah Waltenbaugh elected in San Antonio Valley school. Emily Tingman to Mocho school; Erskine Esdon to Arroyo Valley school.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Alternate Source: CDNC
  • • Oakland Tribune, 5 Oct 1891, pg 1, cols 1–3, under "Decide: Select a Favorite Teacher"
    • Item: n759
    • Summary: Newspaper contest to select the favorite teacher in Alameda County. A list of teachers is provided.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1893–1894 school year

  • • Oakland Enquirer, 28 Aug 1893, pg 6, col 1, under "Recommended for Diplomas"
    • Item Number: n656
    • Summary: Ella Weymouth was granted a grammar grade certificate by the Alameda County Board of Education.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • • Oakland Enquirer, 16 Dec 1893, pg 2, col 2, under "Teachers' Examination"
    • Item Number: n370
    • Excerpt: The examination for the county school teacher's certificates will be held up stairs in the High school Monday [Dec 18] at 1:30 p. m.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
    • Related Items:
      • • Oakland Times, 21 Dec 1893, pg 2, col 1, item titled "County Examination of Would-Be Teachers"
        • Item Number: n371
        • Full Text: The county examination of applicants for teachers' certificates is in progress at the Oakland High school building with about forty applicants undergoing the ordeal. County Superintendent Frick and Directors W. F. B. Lynch and Rutherford are conducting the examination, which will close to-morrow [Dec 22]. As there are about twenty separate papers to each applicant, to be carefully gone over, it will be fully a week later before the result of the test is prepared for announcement.
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
        • Alternate Source: Alameda Encinal 21 Dec 1893, pg 3, col 4, untitled item under "Brevities", in the CDNC.
      • • Oakland Times, 1 Jan 1894, pg 2, col 2, under "Now They Are Happy: Twenty-four Successful Applicants for School Teachers' Certificates"
        • Item Number: n37
        • Summary: Results of a recent examination for Alameda county teachers' certificates.
        • Source: Newpapers.com
        • Note: A primary certificate was good for two years and qualified the recipient to teach in a primary school (or in the primary grades of a school).

  1894–1895 school year

  • • Oakland Times, 30 June 1894, pg 5, col 3, under "Won on Their Merits: Successful Contestants for Teachers' Certificates"
    • Item: n761
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • • San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Dec 1894, pg 10, col 2, under "Granted Certificates: Sucessful Applicants at the Semi-Annual Examination", in a section of Oakland items
    • Item: n760
    • Summary: List of people granted teachers' certificates by Alameda County.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • • San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Aug 1895, pg 2, cols 2–6, subsection, titled "Alameda County", of "California's Public School System: The Crowning Glory of the Golden State", pgs 1–12
    • Item Number: n646
    • Summary: This is a subsection of a twelve page article on the California public school system. The article starts on pg 1; the subsection on Alameda County appears on page 2. It lists all the school districts of the county, the teachers employed in them, and their salaries. The teachers listed for Livermore are the ones that were teaching in the 1894–1895 school year, not the ones that were elected in July of 1895 for the 1895–1896 school year (Petray replaced Smith as principal for 1895–1896).
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1895–1896 school year

  • • San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 1896, pg 8, col 3, under "Sucessful Applicants"
    • Item Number: n762
    • dateline: Oakland, June 24
    • Summary: Successful applicants for teachers' certificates from Alameda County, including Lulu M. Aylward and Mamie B. Dougherty.
    • Source: Newspapers.com

  1897–1898 school year

  • • Oakland Enquirer, 26 Oct 1897, pg 1, col 1, under "The Teachers: Alameda County Institue Convened This Afternoon", continued on pg 6, cols 1–3.
    • Item Number: n58
    • Summary: An article on the Alameda County Teachers' Institute, held Oct 26–29, which includes a list of the teachers of Alameda County by school district.
    • Source: Newspaper.com clipping of the first part, on pg 1 and Newspapers.com clipping of the second part, on pg 6
    • Related Items:
      • • Oakland Tribune, 7 Oct 1897, pg 5, cols 5–6, under "Pedogogic Wisdom" at the top of column 5
        • Item Number: n59
        • Summary: Program planned for the upcoming Alameda County Teachers' Institute
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
        • Note: All teachers employed in the public schools of Alameda County were required by law to attend.

  1899–1900 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 9 Dec 1899, pg 2, col 1, under "County Board of Education: Certificates Granted at the Meeting this Morning"
    • Item Number: n73
    • Summary: Teachers' Certificates were granted at a meeting of the County Board of Education. A. L. Fuller and Nellie I. Boston were granted renewals of their primary grade certificates.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)
  • • Oakland Times, 3 Jan 1900, pg 1, col 6, under "Certificates Granted to Seven Teachers"
    • Item Number: n647
    • Summary: Three were granted grammer grade certificates, the others primary.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1900–1901 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 22 Nov 1900, pg 5, col 4, under "Teachers at the Institute"
    • Item Number: n423
    • Summary: List of teachers attending the Teachers' Institute.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC
    • Notes: Note P. A. R. Dow, at Union High School No. 3, Haywards; Grace Aylward, at Mission [San Jose].
    • Alternate Source:
      • • Item Number: n648
        • Hayward Review, 23 Nov 1900, page 2, col 2, under "Teachers Galore"
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC/li>

  1904–1905 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, pg 2, col 6, under "Livermore Teachers to Attend Institute"
    • Item Number: n763
    • Summary: Short list of some Livermore area teachers that will be attending.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required)

  1905–1906 school year

  • • Oakland Tribune, 17 June 1906, pg 19, cols 3-4, under "Graduate in High Standing: Examinations for County Schools Gratifying in Result"
    • Item Number: n649
    • Summary: Eighth graders who passed the county's final graduation examination, listed by school district, with name of teacher.
    • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC
    • Alternate Source:
      • • Item Number: n650
        • Oakland Enquirer, 19 June 1906, pg 3, cols 3–4, under "Superintendent Gives Diplomas to Graduates"
        • Source: Newspapers.com clipping (subscription not required); not in the CDNC