. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. fe. Air. Alason had noassistants. The school, especially after theooening of Franklin Academy and becauseof the competition with that institution, wasnot a financial success, and so, about 1850Air. Alason left Kutztown, going to Tus-caloosa, Alabama, where he was reported 98 CEXTEXXIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN to have secured the principalship of a schoolor schools, at a salary of eighteen hundreddollars, Th^ Frankun Academy At the west corner of the intersectionof Walnut
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. fe. Air. Alason had noassistants. The school, especially after theooening of Franklin Academy and becauseof the competition with that institution, wasnot a financial success, and so, about 1850Air. Alason left Kutztown, going to Tus-caloosa, Alabama, where he was reported 98 CEXTEXXIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN to have secured the principalship of a schoolor schools, at a salary of eighteen hundreddollars, Th^ Frankun Academy At the west corner of the intersectionof Walnut and White Oak streets standsa building of peculiar interest to the stu-dent of Kutztown history who is, also, in-terested in matters educational. It is aplain, low, frame, weatherboarded building,with windows set with small panes ot glassafter the fashion of the olden time. Atpresent it is the home of Miss Mary this humble building cluster num-erous associations. For some 15 to 20 yearsit was the home of a school of higher in-struction which rendered great service tothe community and which, though it was at. The FrankIvIn Academy last conipelled to close its doors, was theindirect predecessor of the splendid NormalSchool which is now the glory of Kutztownand all this section. Franklin Academy was opened in theyear 1835. It was established to gratifythe wish of man_\- of the people resident inthis vicinage for a more extensive seculareducation than was supplied by the churchschool. It was founded bv a number ofcitizens who organized themselves into anAcademv Club association. There wereeighteen persons in the club. Of these, thenames of the following were given by aiiaged friend whose memory failed to recallthe names of the others: Arnold (r Tew),Captain Daniel Bieber, George Bieber, John Bieber, Biehl, Jacob Esser, (the hatter), David Fister, GraefT. Jacob Heffner, King David B. Kutz,Butcher Levan, Henry NeiT, and SquireWanner. Alexander Ramsey, who was teaching
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