Chester County and its people .. . ution for some years, though underdifferent principals. It closed its career in 1840. Rev. Mr. Lattawas a tine scholar, especially in the classics and theology, andwas a Presbyterian minister. He died April 21, 1834. Rev. James Latta in 1830 opened Mantua Female Seminary, asort of companicn school to Moscow Academy, and located only ashort distance from it. For several years it had a successfulcareer. LTuionville Academy was established in 1834 by the liberalitjof citizens in the vicinitj, who donated the land and erected thebuildings. It was for many years o
Chester County and its people .. . ution for some years, though underdifferent principals. It closed its career in 1840. Rev. Mr. Lattawas a tine scholar, especially in the classics and theology, andwas a Presbyterian minister. He died April 21, 1834. Rev. James Latta in 1830 opened Mantua Female Seminary, asort of companicn school to Moscow Academy, and located only ashort distance from it. For several years it had a successfulcareer. LTuionville Academy was established in 1834 by the liberalitjof citizens in the vicinitj, who donated the land and erected thebuildings. It was for many years one of the best known and mostsuccessful private schools iu the county. Among its principalswere such men as Milton White, Gaylord L. More, Cheyney Hau-num, James Fling, Jonathan Gause, Milton Durnall, Henry , Jacob W. Harvej, A. A. Meader, and among its illustriouspupils were Bayard Taylor and James P. Wickersham. Evan Pugh opened a school for young men in 1847 in EastNottingham Township, which was known as Jordan Bank Acad-. ..-/^^^^^^^^vj A^D /r^S PEOPLE. 391 tiny. This school he coudueted iintil 1853, when he went toEurope, graduated at the Uuiversity of Heidelberg, Avhich con-ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Physical Science, andupon his return home in 1859 he at once became president of theAgricultural College of Pennsylvania. At Kockville in Houeybrook Township there was establishedin 1848 a school by the name of Howard Academy, under theprincipalship of Prof. James McClune, LL. D., and the same schoolwas afteiward conducted by Rev. S. Ogdeu, A. Kirkland, andothers, until 1862. Benjamin Price conducted a school in East Bradford fromabout 1842 to 1847, which was known by the name of Prospect HillBoarding School. Philip and Eachel Price in 1830 opened Prices BoardingSchool for Girls in West Chester, and this school was conductedby their daughter, Mrs. Hannah P. Davis, until 1852, when it waspurchased by Miss P. C. Evans and her sisters. The school thenbecame th
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