Milton Academy's attendance reached 212, with its first three graduates in the teachers' course.

The evidence

• “It was paid for mainly by the stockholders of the then reorganized iMilton Academy. The attendance in 1856 reached 212, with its first three graduates in the teachers' course, Susan E. Burdick, Chloe Curtis and Ruth A.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/15-colleges.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 348 / book p. 319

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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