Who's Teaching and Who's Being Taught

Here are updates on two young south-of-Deepriver women who embarked on teaching careers.


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Hobart News, July 5, 1923.

Esther Strong had earned her high-school diploma in 1922; the position at the Vincent school was her first.

The last we heard of Esther Guernsey, she was heading off to South Dakota in August 1920. I am a little confused about her parents — it appears she was born to Randolph and Nancy (Hardesty) Guernsey, but after her father's death in 1902 (when Esther was only about two years old[1]), her mother married Randolph's elder brother (by about 13 years), Chester. Nancy went on to have more children with Chester, so there were a lot of step-siblings in the family, but all had the Guernsey name from birth.

Esther Guernsey continued teaching school, I believe, until her marriage in 1933 (in Iowa) to Leslie J. Moreland, after which they located on a farm in Ross Township and she stayed home to care for their two adopted daughters (1940 Census). She is buried in Valparaiso.

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Hobart's budding artist, Dalia Messick, began an eight-week course at the Art Institute of Chicago, according to an item in the "Local Drifts" of the Hobart Gazette of July 6, 1923. She had just completed her freshman year at Hobart High School and had illustrated the 1923 Aurora yearbook.

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[1] Esther and her younger sister were mistakenly omitted from the list of survivors in the Gazette's account of Randolph's death.