History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. 233 propriated two thousand dollars for tlie erection of asuitable academy building, and provided that a num-ber of pogr children, not exceeding six, should beeducated gratis, but that no such child should betaught longer than two years. Col. James Diinlop was the first president of theboard of trustees; Thomas Burnside, Esq., first principal was Rev. H. R. Wilson. Linn succeeded him in 1810, who, as princi-pal and president of the board, was connected withthe institution until his death in 1868,
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . BELLEFONTE BOROUGH. 233 propriated two thousand dollars for tlie erection of asuitable academy building, and provided that a num-ber of pogr children, not exceeding six, should beeducated gratis, but that no such child should betaught longer than two years. Col. James Diinlop was the first president of theboard of trustees; Thomas Burnside, Esq., first principal was Rev. H. R. Wilson. Linn succeeded him in 1810, who, as princi-pal and president of the board, was connected withthe institution until his death in 1868, teaching in in-tervals of years when the institution was unable tosecure teachers. Mr. Chamberlain was a principalfor a while, and was succeeded by Robert Baird,subsequently Dr. Baird, celebrated as an author andtraveler, and the founder of the Evangelical CiiristianAlliance, who taught during the years 1818 and J. B. McCarrel, of the Associate ReformedChurch, was also an early principal. In 1823, .JohnH. Hickok (fiither of Henry C. Hickok
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