CROOK'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1837.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
The Rev. Mr. Crook intends opening a school in the Wilmington Academy during the first week in January next. Mr. Crook will thoroughly instruct in all the elementary branches of an English education, and he hopes by a conscientious discharge of the important duties of a teacher of youth, to afford satisfaction to patrons & pupils.
—Wilmington Advertiser, December 22, 1837.
Mr. & Mrs. Crook will open a school at Smithville, between the 20th and last of June. In addition to all the branches of a correct English Education, Mr. Crook will teach the rudiments of the Greek & Latin tongues.
—Wilmington Advertiser, June 8, 1838.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915) |