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Electa Quinney: Wisconsin’s first public school teacher

Posted on January 7, 2020

Wisconsin’s first public schoolteacher was Electa Quinney, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. Quinney had come to Wisconsin in the massive Indian removal from New York in 1827. She wanted to teach the …

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