. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . e West-ern University sprang, and was incorporated as the Pitts-burgh Academy, a charter having been obtained for it in1787 from the State Legislature. Among his instructors was Eev. Eobert Patterson, thefirst graduate of Jefferson College, son of him widelyknown as Father Patterson, a pioneer of Presbyterianismin the woods of western Pennsylvania; and to antici-pate, this academic teacher was uncle of Robert W. Pat-terson, husband of the writers daughter Elizabeth. was principal of the academy from 1807 to 1810.
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . e West-ern University sprang, and was incorporated as the Pitts-burgh Academy, a charter having been obtained for it in1787 from the State Legislature. Among his instructors was Eev. Eobert Patterson, thefirst graduate of Jefferson College, son of him widelyknown as Father Patterson, a pioneer of Presbyterianismin the woods of western Pennsylvania; and to antici-pate, this academic teacher was uncle of Robert W. Pat-terson, husband of the writers daughter Elizabeth. was principal of the academy from 1807 to 1810. Another instructor was Rev. Joseph Stockton, authorof a once famous text-book,— The Western Calculator,—and one of the founders of the Western TheologicalSeminary. Mr. Stockton at an earlier period had beenprincipal of an academy at Meadville, from which sprangAllegheny College. He also founded an academy inAllegheny, which occupied a little brick building in thecentre of a graveyard on the West Common, from which Born at Monte Cenis, Burgundy, June 25, From daguerreotype taken in 1850. Patterson—Stockton—Bruce. 13 I infer it had been used as a place of worship, possiblyby the First Presbyterian congregation, of which he wasthe first pastor. Mr. Stockton was noted as a fine Greekscholar. He succeeded Mr. Patterson as principal of the
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