The following article about Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana appeared in:
Vevay Reveille – 11 Feb 1869 – Page 3, Column 3
Patriot School House.
The following is a list of the subscribers to the fund for the building of the new public School House, at Patriot [Switzerland County, Indiana], in this county, and the amount subscribed by each:
[See newspaper for amount subscribed.]
- W. A. Olcott
- John Watts
- W. T. Pate
- H. L. Norris
- S. Q. Howe
- John Gill
- Wm. Emmerson
- Reinhardt Keine
- James Stevenson
- P. C. Burns
- R. R. Bromwell
- Frank Braun
- J. M. Hickman
- R. R. Ruter
- Joseph Hock
- Andrew Shafer
- Thomas J. McHatton
- J. H. Stevenson
- S. B. McHuron
- M. C. Watts
- Joseph Schilling
- P. Fortune
- Geo. McNutt
- J. R. Wiley
- J. W. Shirey
- Mrs. Vienna Watts
- Miss Anna Tait
- J. G. Douglass
- S. H. Scranton
- Theodore Humphrey
- T. E. Abbott
- Rankin & White
- Samuel Fisk
- Hiram Douglass
- N. Heisel
- W. W. Shepperd
- W. F. Coffin
- John D. Mottier
- J. M. Scranton
- H. J. Harris
- Aaron Lyon
- C. H. Humphrey
- John Vawter
- C. L. Moredock
- William Fisk
- William H. Vawter
- B. Strack
- C. O. Brien
- Ralph Platt
- James Lutton
- Bela Herrick
- James W. Merritt
- S. Howe
- R. Abbott
- P. L. Davis
- Alfred Wilson
- I. A. Humphrey
- Hiram Mead
- James Tait
- H. Penn
- G. B. Seaver
- Mrs. James Stephenson
- Jacob R. Harris
- Martin R. Green
The building is completed and a Public School in now in operation, which employs three teachers.—The building is three stories high. The third story is occupied by the Masons and Odd Fellows. It is the intention of the citizens of Patriot and vicininty to build up and sustain a school second to none in the State.