No this wasn't the main job in Eau Claire. The average pay for a teacher was $21.20 a month for a male teacher and a female teacher was usually paid $15.30.

The first school in Eau Claire opened in the winter of 1856. It was on Jones Street which was between Farwell Street and Barstow Street. John E. Stillman was the first teacher who taught in this school.
 

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Sources: Sawdust City, Lois Barland, Worzalla Publishing Co., Stevens Point, Wisconsin, 1965
This is a picture of the first school in Eau Claire.
Photo credit: Chippewa Valley Museum