Bygone Muncie: Writer and suffragist Ida Husted Harper was a Munsonian of national renown
Bygone Muncie: Writer and suffragist Ida Husted Harper was a Munsonian of national renown © Photo provided Ida Husted Harper, onetime Muncie resident and nationally-recognized writer and suffragist, is shown around 1910. Formal education was unsystematic and infrequent in Muncie’s first few decades. The first schoolhouse, a log cabin, was located at the southwest corner of Main and Walnut streets, just north of what is now the Accutech Building. As time wore on, local governments improved education and added several school houses and eventually, a graded system to advance students seekin...