Introduction
AGNES DRAPER was born in 1876, the daughter of Professor Horatio and Eleanor Draper. Horatio Draper was the first principal of theCamden Manual Training and High School, later known as Burrough Junior High School. He also was the superintendent of schools for the city in the 1890s. The Draper family lived at 582 Clinton Street in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Horatio Draper was the principal of the Fetters school, and when the High School was organized in 1891, he was its first principal.
Agnes Draper, after graduating from Camden High School and the Camden Normal School in 1897, began teaching second grade at the Bergen School in 1909. She was sent to the Read School in North Camden in 1922, then to Broadway Elementary School in 1923. At the time of the 1930 census, she lived at 210 East Maple Avenue in nearby Merchantville NJ. She later moved back to Camden. In 1940 Miss Draper was again transferred, this time to the Liberty School. She became an auxiliary teacher at the Cooper School, and although ill was hoping to return to the classroom for the 1950–1951 school year, when she passed away on July 6, 1950.
Agnes Draper last resided at 305 Cooper Street in Camden NJ. A member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Camden, she was, after funeral services at the Wallace M. DuBois funeral home at 418 Chambers Street, buried at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden. Her life spent teaching young children in the Camden school system, Agnes Draper left no survivors, but many friends and former students.
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C.A. Bergen School, 1893
Broadway Elementary School, 1893
Agnes Draper, Teacher Here 40 Years, Dies
Camden Courier-Post —
Miss Agnes Draper, Camden public school teacher more than 40 years, died in West Jersey hospital Thursday after a long illness. She was the daughter of Prof. Horatio and Eleanor Draper.
Professor Draper was the first principal of the Camden High school when the school was in a building at 123 Federal street which also was occupied by the Post-Telegram, since merged to make the present Courier-Post. In addition to being the school principal in 1891, Professor Draper was district school superintendent and the school offices were in the Fetters school.
Miss Draper, who lived at 305 Cooper street, was born in Camden and was a graduate of the Camden High school and of the old Camden Normal school in 1897.
She began her teaching career at the Bergen school in September, 1909, where she taught the second grade. In 1922 she was transferred to grade three at Read school, then grade three at the Broadway school in 1923. She taught grades four and five at the Liberty school in 1940 and became an auxiliary teacher at Cooper school in 1949. She was still on the rolls as a teacher at her death.
Miss Draper was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and of the Camden Teachers Association. There are no survivors.
Services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home at Chambers avenue and Washington street, where friends may call Sunday night. Burial will be in Harleigh cemetery.