First Row: Ina Patch, Marjorie Rathbone, Margaret, Valancee, Alice Hansen, Mary Schlundt. Second Row: Sylvia Schuller, Sadie Martin, Katie Urban, Hazel Russ, Docmar Hansen, Luella Jansen. Third Row: Katie Klatke, Laura Merritt, Helen Walden, Jessie Smith, Harriet Russ. Fourth Row Al Bossert, Fred Menth, Chauncey Grennel, John Hubbel, Ed Rathbun, Sydney Stipe, Harry Lelup, Frank Malbon, George Martin, James Gorman, Kurt Hoffman.
Students and faculty on the steps of St. Paul's College. St. Paul's College in St. Paul Park, organized in 1889 offered both a preparatory and collegiate course. St. Paul's was organized and supported by the Northern German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This conference included German Methodist congregation in Minnesota plus some in Wisconsin and North Dakota. The school operated until 1917, closing under financial difficulties and the stress of being a German-speaking institution during World War I. Supporters were encouraged to shift allegiance to Hamline University.
Contributing Institution:
Minnesota Annual Conference United Methodist Church
1908 graduates in caps and gowns, with East and West Old Main in the background. Students identified are (left to right): James Todd Guy; Nina Foy Johnson; Rosella Evans; Martha Olson; Lydia Anna Schroedel; Lucy Hysolp; Richard Stanley Brown; Ralph Brinks; Luke Marvin; Walter Mell Hobart; (missing); Clarence Stearns; Hanna Sophia Berg; Peter McEwen; Margaret Kennedy; Margaret Elizabeth Guy; Clifford C. Cornwell; Edith Fredrica Cale; Robert Sinclair Wallace; Evan Milton Evans; Albert Peterson; Margaret Lakey; George Aiken.
The Irving School was located on the corner of Monroe and Second Avenue in Anoka, MN. It was built in 1866 and demolished in 1903 to make way for a new building.