![]() In 1918 when the present building was built, the High School held classes there and the grades were held down town town in rooms over the business houses and the first and second grades were held in the opera house, now the site of the Senior Citizens. Duchmein died in 1891 and sometime later it was acquired by the school. Duchmein was a brick mason and a brother-in-law of Francis Woodmansee who built the large home across the street, facing the school house. The Wilmington News-Journal stated that it was the largest private residence in the country. In the summer of 1876, Abraham Duchmein built a three story residence on the lot adjoining the present school house. ![]() All of Frank and Lizzie's five children were born in New Vienna, one died at childbirth, two moved to California, one to Illinois, and the fate of the youngest, Edith born in 1897, is unknown. Her son, Robert Harold lived in Clinton/Highland county as a boy but moved to Missouri.įour of the Duchemin family are buried in New Vienna's IOOF Cemetery: Abraham and Mary Elizabeth on the East Side, and Frank, their youngest son, and his wife, the former Elizabeth M "Lizzie" Turner, on the West Side. ![]() Stella married the oldest brother, John, her step-mother's older brother. To confuse matters, Martha married Robert Cox and became the step-mother of Stella Cox Duchemin (1866-?), the other graduate of NVHS. ![]()
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