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High School Principal 1952 - 1956
Assistant Superintendent 1956 - 1958
Superintendent 1958 - 1966
(He was superintendent under Derby School District #6 and Unified School District 260. The unification of school districts went into effect for Derby…

Dr. William Dixon and wife Catherine sitting in their garden with their German Shepherd in the 1920s.

This is a photocopy of a photo. Back of photo stated the dog is a Great Dane.

Dr. William Dixon feeding the chickens in the family garden.

Photo is from page 8 of the Dixon family scrapbook.

Catherine "Kate" Morton Dixon sent a scrapbook of photos to her brother Seymour Morton. The photos are of Dr. W. E. Dixon, wife…

Term as El Paso City Council Member At Large Jun. 1903 - Apr. 1905

This is the envelope Ella Pittman's eighth grade diploma came in from County Superintendent R. M. Crum's office. She wrote all the names of the Derby graduates on the back of the envelope.

Graduates: Ruth Sawin, Orpha Brian, Ella Pittman, Agnes…

El Paso Cemetery sits on a slight hill in the center of Derby but was once surrounded by farmland and was about a mile southeast of the growing settlement. In 1878, the cemetery opened, 9 years after the Garrett family staked a claim near the bank of…

Ella Pittman graduated from Derby High School in 1927.

Erland Philo Butterfield sitting on the steps of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank circa 1935

The Evangelical Church in the early 1900s before the parsonage was built in 1909. This building was completed in 1904.