I. M. Glick

I.M. Glick was born in Pickaway county in 1858 and came to Henry County in 1878. He lived in Harrison Township.

Mr. Glick was a pioneer school teacher in Henry County, taking an active interest in the progress of schools long after his retirement as a teacher.

He was connected with the rural schools for fifty years. He began his first term of school on May 5, 1880, he taught for fifteen years. He was a member of the Harrison Township School Board for fourteen years and was clerk of the board for thirty-six years.

His first school was located one mile east of Malinta in the woods, known then as Brush College. He taught that school for $18 per month.

There was no road north or east from the schoolhouse, the road sout only went one-half mile, and east was a dense forest for miles. A wild turkey had her nest in the school house that summer and you could see a deer cross the road occasionally.

The Cloverleaf railroad was just being built and Malinta was founded and named after Miss Elizabeth Malinta Bensing, the town taking her second name. She married William Sick- miller of Napoleon, Ohio. Her father, John Bensing, was appointed the first postmaster of the new town. The government was slow in furnishing appropriate building for a post office, and Mr. Bensing was compelled to keep his mail in a bedroom in his house, the only convenient place he had at that time.

Mr. Glick taught his last term at the Sheats school in Harrison Township in the winter of 1894-95 at $40 per month, that being the highest paid wages then paid to rural school teachers.

Mr. Glick was quoted as saying "I have taught school many a day barefooted. Pupils were scarce, but boots were much more rare. I boarded with Mrs. Elizabeth Eisaman who was a widow with four children to support; she charged me $1.00 per week, payable in work. We used to get $1.00 a hundred splitting rails and I have sometimes split a hundred rails after school was out for the day, the school board allowed me to set the clock ahead an hour and use "Daylight Savings Time" to do this. Can you imagine a school teacher now splitting rails evenings?"

From Nat Belknap's Downtown Column