The first school in Buckman

This was the first St Michaels School, class of 1887-88. Larry found it on a site called Minnesota Reflections, and I believe it stood where Zenner's Store was later (across the road, north of the present church). Click the pictures to enlarge.

TG for photo editing software so we can see the students close up: Anton Janson would have been 7 years old in 1887, and Eugene would have been 9.

I think #19 is Anton, and # 22 is his brother, Eugene.

I'd really love to identify all the kids in the picture. The youngest would have been listed in the 1885 census as 4 and 5 years old, the oldest as 11-12, probably. In other words, kids born between 1872 and 1882.