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Class portrait of students and their teacher in front of Joint Union High School in Orland, Glenn County circa 1898 First graduating class of Orland Joint Union High School posed for this picture in 1898 on the steps of the school, which stood on Colusa street. Some of those who might be recalled by older residents include Eddie Masterson and Thomas Hartwell Brown (later Dr. T.H. Brown) in front at left. Frank Reager, with mustache is in the back row left and Cordelia Reager (Reed) is in the center back row. Girls on the first step, right, are M. Christian (Hightower), Maude Hightower (Monlux) and Helene Hamann Spooner. 1.) Geo. Mortensen 2.) B. Otis Cobb 3.) Belia Reager 4.) Hadassah Cleek (Hamilton) 5.) Bertha Dowen 6.) Nethi Scribner (Murdock) 7.) Myrtie Brown (Cobb) 8.) Maude O'Hair (Scribner) 9.) Maud Hightower 10.) Byron Hicks 11.) John E. Birch 12.) Willie Mattocks 13.) Jessie Hamos 14.) Richard Chilfton 15.) M. Christian 16.) Helen Hamos (Spooner) 17.) Eddie Masterson 18.) T. Hartwell Brown 19.) Frank Reager (teacher). Nos. 1 to 9 inc. entered 1895. Graduated 1898 the first graduates of the OJUHS class of 1896-97 (nos. 10 to 18 inc.)
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