Miss Coulter's Class

Miss Myra Coulter was the teacher of this Port Byron class. I would place this photo around 1896-1900 as Richard Bunn (later the opera singer Richard Bonelli) is in this class in the front row and he was born in 1889.
There are lots of interesting names in the record of students. As for Miss Coulter; she first started teaching in 1885. In 1906, she married local druggist Charles Vaughan who was a boarder at her mom's house. But in Vaughan's obit, it states that she had moved back to Port Byron after leaving him and hoping he would come home to be around those who would support him.
Look at the names. Many still can be found in the village, so there are lots of grandparents in this photo.