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Shown are the Mansfield Academy Dormitory Bunch in 1909. Front row from left: Second from left J. Henry Phillips, in front of him Jack Phillips, Mary Alice Adkison, Mrs. J. Henry Phillips; second row: S.V. Carmack, lady with glasses Kate Burrough, lady on the end Daisy Brundage; third row: third from left Walter Bolin, Young Bolin and at the end Kathleen Gibson; fourth row: Jerome, who worked in the kitchen, Louis Reed, fifth from left A.K. Dick Joplin, Claude Pittman; back row: second from left James Caldwell, Arthur Ellis and Will Walker. Other people in the photo that are not identified are Olin Pittman, Sam Pittman, Will A. Gibson, Arthur Scott, Guy Fowler, Levi Teague, Avery Miller, Avah Malone, Fred Caldwell, Kate Templeton, K. McBrayer, Sam Brown, Claude Kelly and E.C. Leeper.
To learn more about Mansfield history, check out the Mansfield Historical Museum, 102 N. Main St., open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more info, call 817-473-4250, emailmuseum@mansfieldtexas.gov or go to mansfieldhistory.org.
Photo courtesy of the Mansfield Historical Society.
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