Mansfield Isd history

By 1855 Collier, with the help of a Professor Ewing and a Mrs.

On August 26, 1858, Doctor Collier married Mary Ellen "Mollie" Fowler.

With the onset of war in 1861, Collier joined L.S. Ross's brigade and served as a chaplain and scout east of the Mississippi River.

By September 1865, the Oakland College opened in Grandview with Jim Poindexter, Levi Fowler and Doctor and Mrs.

The college was incorporated on May 2, 1871 by the Twelfth Legislature of the State of Texas and was empowered to confer degrees in arts and sciences.

In 1877, Professor Collier built a two-story brick and frame house on the west side of the school grounds for his family.

The college closed in 1887 when Doctor Collier left for Waxahachie.

In September 1890, A.J. Dukes deeded the school property to J.H. Alexander, A.B. Pyles and WG. Ralston, trustees of the Mansfield Public Free School and to their successors in office.

On May 22, 1909, 191 Mansfield voters cast ballots selecting the first board of trustees.

The 1924 Mansfield High School presently serves as the M.I.S.D. Administrative offices.

The concept of annually celebrating Black achievements started in 1926 as Negro History Week, the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans.

They were instructed by the Board on April 23, 1939 to finalize plans for the building and file an application as a WP.A. project.

The school housed all white students, grades first through eleventh, until 1953, when a new elementary school was built.

Upon his wife's death in 1958, he closed the store and spent the remainder of his life enjoying a life long habit of reading.

Clearing of the thirty five acre tract began in December 1962, and construction began in March 1962.

When a new high school was built in 1963, seventh and eighth grade students attended the school.

In 1965, faced with loss of federal funds, the Mansfield school district finally desegregated, its decade-long defiance of a federal school integration order was one of the longest in the nation during that period.

Jobe began teaching summer school at MISD in 1966 and was on regular contract in September of the same year.

The celebration was later expanded to a month in 1976, the nation’s bicentennial.

Dedicated, loyal, hardworking, innovative, demanding, and caring are the adjectives used when describing Linda, a teacher’s teacher, who deserves all the praise and recognition this school district can bestow upon her.” Don Ellis, President, Board of Trustees 1991