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The school system of Bergen County, New Jersey, is the common theme of this two-item lot from 1901.
The first item is a "County Grammar School Diploma" issued in 1901 to Hiram W. Phillips by the State of New Jersey Department of Public Instruction. (I believe "Grammar School" back then was synonymous with "High School" today.) It is signed by Bergen County Superintendent John Terhune and school Principal James E. Demarest. The green seal at the lower left corner says "The Board of Education of the Township of New Barbadoes in the County of Bergen, New Jersey." New Barbadoes later became Hackensack. The certificate measures about 17" x 14" and, as you can see, it has multiple vertical fold lines from being squeezed while rolled up.
Second, measuring about 6" x 8", and 16 pages long, is a booklet titled "Superintendent's Annual Circular of Greeting to the Grammar School Graduates of Bergen County, New Jersey, Class of 1901." The chief article, titled "Work Wins", is a message from John Terhune, and the booklet also contains some advertising, humor and two pages of pictures of military alumni of Hackensack High School. Four of the five alumni shown on the "US Navy" page are well known in their own right, and here's what we can tell you about them:
- Ellsworth P. Bertholf took part in the Alaska Overland Expedition in 1897, and later became Captain-Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.
- Albert A. Ackerman took part in the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic in 1884 on board the USS Alert.
- Wallace Bertholf (Ellsworth's brother) was cited for his bravery in fighting the fire that follwed the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He also won the Navy Cross in World War I for his bravery as commanding officer of the USS Harrisburg.
- Warren J. Terhune fought in the Spanish-American War and took part in quelling an uprising in Nicaragua in 1912. He later became Governor of American Samoa, but his rule was controversial and unpopular, and he committed suicide in 1920 while in office.
Ackerman and the two Betholfs are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.NOTE: I'm guessing this might be the same Hiram Phillips as the one in the "1940-49 tax bills for Hiram Phillips' 2 Hackensack homes" topic.
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