The gap created by the loss of the 1890 census leaves a 20 year span of time that the genealogical researcher needs to fill with other records. School lists and censuses from the 1890's are helpful in pinpointing where families with children from the ages of 5 through 19 lived.  The school census was generally carried out yearly at the end of the school year.

School attendance lists are not as accurate because school attendance, while encouraged, was not required.  Children were often needed at home.   Students stayed in a particular grade until they passed the state examinations for that grade. 

 

History of Vogel Center School
Includes a list of teachers in the school from 1874 to 1940.
Article is from the Cadillac newspaper from 1940 in the possession of
Jessie McGee Grambau.

School Yearbooks

If you have any yearbooks from Missaukee Schools please contact me, Donna Hoff-Grambau.