SUMMIT COUNTY OHIO 
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 272

	GEORGE McDOWELL is superintendent of the Jackson Township Centralized 
School in Pickaway County. He is one of the able young men in the 
educational forces of the county that has made remarkable progress in 
consolidating its country schools and raising the general standards of 
educational work.
	Mr. McDowell was born at Summit county, Ohio, October 17, 1897, son of 
J.W. McDowell. His father was a real estate broker. His grandfather, Luther 
McDowell,  was a native of Wayne County, Ohio, and a relative of General 
McDowell.
	Mr. George McDowell was educated in Summit County, attending high school 
there, and graduated from Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, in 1920. 
Soon after graduating he came to Pickaway county as principal of the high 
school in Jackson Township and in 1923 was made superintendent.
	This was the first centralized school in Pickaway County, organized in 
1911. There is an eight room school building, and the teaching staff at 
present comprises twelve teachers. There are two full time and two part 
time high school teachers. In the grades  the enrollment is 225, with fifty 
in high school.
	Mr. McDowell married a classmate of Muskingum College, Miss Pauline Finch 
of Carmi, Illinois. She is a graduate of the department of oratory of 
Muskingum College.

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