Frank B. Willis High School photograph   Save
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Description: Reverse reads: "Delaware County Delaware Co Willis Hi School" This photograph shows Frank B. Willis High School located in Delaware, Ohio, ca. 1935. The Willis School was named after Frank B. Willis, who was born in Delaware County and died in the City of Delaware on March 30, 1928. Willis served the citizens of Delaware and the State of Ohio in the Ohio House of Representatives (1900-1904), the U.S. House of Representatives (1911-1915), as Governor of Ohio (1915-1917), and as Ohio’s senator in the U.S. Senate from 1920 until his death in 1928. Willis School, which housed grades 7-12, opened in 1932 and was named to honor Delaware's native son. The first graduating class was in 1933; the last was in 1962. From 1962 until the present, Willis School housed a middle school for the City of Delaware. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_021_001
Subjects: School buildings--Ohio; Education--Ohio; Governors--Ohio
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)