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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY
Charles Harmson Esplin about 1918. (Courtesy Fre<
Kanab was without high school classes until 1900. By then the county had reached the point that it had a sufficient population base to warrant the establishment of a high school. The first principal was Joseph L. H o m e , w h o ran the school out of two r o o m s in the Academy. The school term lasted from October to March, and teachers were paid sixty dollars in 1912. Academy teachers included Marinda Halliday, Bertha Halliday Cram, Rose Fuller, Frank Cutler, Malcolm Little, Bessie Woolley Day, Caroline Findlay Roundy, Dana Farnsworth (Findlay), Clara McAllister (Shields), Addie Little Swapp, Bessie F. Little, Will Dobson, Josephine S. Major, Bessie Spencer, Hazel Johnson (Mackelprang), Blanche Hicks (Mace), Mary Riggs, Sarah Dye (Major), Linda B u r n h a m ( H a m b l i n ) , and Rose H. Hamblin. In September 1912 the Kane County Independent noted that there were 214 students enrolled in school in the county, that the school buildings were all overcrowded, and that there was a serious shortage of teachers. 26 By 1914 the Academy was very crowded and some classes were held in the old tithing office and at the local LDS ward hall. In 1914 a second two-year high school was established in Kanab in the Jepson Building on the southwest corner of Main and Center Streets under the supervision of J.L. H o m e . Subjects taught included mathematics,
