Miss Mary Boise taught a girls school with Mrs. Maggie Preston as assistant.
The Jefferson Institute was another early day school of which Miss Ellie Norwood was principal.
A public school was established in Jefferson in 1888 or ’89 with Col. Bass as the first Superintendent.
Mr. R. W. Vinson was the first County Superintendent and Miss Alice Emmert was the second.
PROMINENT CITIZENS OF JEFFERSON IN HER EARLY DAYS
Many of the prominent men who had a part in the making of Texas were born and reared in the little historic town of Jefferson. Mrs. Anna Hardwick Pennybacker was living in Jefferson and wrote the greater part of her “History of Texas” while here. Her father, Dr. J. B. Hardwick, was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jefferson.
Col. D. B. Culberson
Col. Culberson was congressman from the First Congressional District for twenty-two years. He was one of the leading lawyers of the State, and was prominent in the famous Abe Rothchild case. He was the father of C. A. Culberson, who was born and reared in Jefferson and started his political career as County Attorney of Marion County and was later Attorney General of the State, Governor of Texas, and was elected to the Senate of the United States. He was known as Senior Senator for a number of years—until his death.
Rev. D. B. Culberson, the father of Col. Culberson was one of the early pastors of the First Baptist Church of Jefferson.