Hannah Lindahl: the supervisor the children kept

– 1946 –

The tie and the record, at documented strength: Hannah M. Lindahl was the elementary supervisor of the School City of Mishawaka — the district's overseer of its youngest pupils — and the record that carries her name is a building. Carol (Samuel) Eberhart Hillier — of the Eberhart family the Schools section carries — brought the idea of a children's museum to the school administration, and she and Lindahl together persuaded the School City of its value; the museum committee first met on January 30, 1946. The museum that resulted, opened in 1946 behind Emmons School at 1402 South Main Street and named the Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum in her honor, put Mishawaka's own history into children's hands and became, in time, the repository of the city's genealogical record, holding the Mishawaka public school records from 1887 forward among its collections; in 1993 the South Bend–Mishawaka Convention and Visitors Bureau named it the Hidden Treasure of St. Joseph County. The institution's record belongs jointly to the Schools and Culture legs; the woman belongs here. Her birth and death dates are not established in the sources read, and the gap is named in this build's people note, with the museum's own records and the School City archives as the settling sources.

Sources:

1. South Bend Area Genealogical Society, account of the Hannah Lindahl Museum (Lindahl's supervisory office; the January 30, 1946 committee meeting; the collections)
2. The Clio, entry for the Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum (the 1946 opening; the naming in her honor)