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Iowa Teacher 80 Plans Pioneer Reunion in Stockport
Samuel V Whittaker 80 a longtime Van Buren county rural schoolteacher will host an old settlers picnic on Aug 6 in Stockport to reunite more than a thousand former pupils and families California Canada and Texas delegate invitations have come in The event features an old fashioned spell down judged by John H Landis and a keynote address by Edgar R Harlan Whittaker who began teaching in 1857 now lives in Stockport owns two drugstores and is Iowa’s oldest educator by residence longevity
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