Martinus Gerits
1822-1882
Born: St. Anthonis, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Died: Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
1822-1882
Born: St. Anthonis, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Died: Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
<p>rs.</p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our school superintenden, Martin Gerrits, has not yet taken an office in town and we presume he will not for the present. (Recently within 10 days the sorrowing Mr. & Mrs. Gerrits have buried five of their children, the disease seeming to be diptheria in an aggravated form, almost entirely sweeping their children into the grave in almost a week.)</span></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Gerrits is an educated man and we hope he will do justice to the responsible trust reposed in him by the people of Outagamie County. He has a difficult field of labor before him as most of our interior schools are in a primary condition with a conglormeration of rules and studies. The schools must be systematized and a general uniformity of the text books introduced as well as attentions requisite in many other particulars in order to make the school house attractive to scholars and pleasing to teachers.</span></span></p>
Martin and Elizabeth Gerrits had 8 children: Anthony (1852-1861), Mina (1853-1861), Mary Gertrude (1854-1882), Francis (1856-1861), Jane (1857-1861), Peter (1861-1917), John Martin (1862-1942), Paulina (1865-1929), and Wilhelmina (1865-1936).