. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. of Hares Valley inthe fall rA 1839. B. K. Rogers, whoresides in town today, attendedschool there and he tells us thatthe first teacher who taught in thatprimitive house of learning was aman by the name cf Cooper. Amongother teachers followed Mr. Oco-per were: Walter Galbraith, ThomasAskins, George McLaughlin andThomas Pollock. This old stone struc-ture represented the center of educa-tion in the primitive days of MountTnfcin. It altogothfr probablethat the hickory was kept prettywell warmed up in those days fromthe informat
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. of Hares Valley inthe fall rA 1839. B. K. Rogers, whoresides in town today, attendedschool there and he tells us thatthe first teacher who taught in thatprimitive house of learning was aman by the name cf Cooper. Amongother teachers followed Mr. Oco-per were: Walter Galbraith, ThomasAskins, George McLaughlin andThomas Pollock. This old stone struc-ture represented the center of educa-tion in the primitive days of MountTnfcin. It altogothfr probablethat the hickory was kept prettywell warmed up in those days fromthe information which we glean atthe present tiipp. Tre school wasbuilt and belonged to the townshipand was destroyed by fire, unfortun-ately, about 1861. The second schoolhouse in Mount Union was built justeast of the hou^e in which H. now resides formerly thePresbyterian church on east ShirleyStreet. This structure served asa schoolhouse until 1870 the pres-ent schcol building having beererected in 1871. We are not abl-^ tolearn the names of the teachers who. w iK-
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