History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . ammar, Com-stocks Philosophy, Roses Arithmetic, and Gum-meres Surveying,—lie went to Boalsburg, in CentreCounty, Pa., and clerked in a general store for GeorgeJack, at five dollars per month. Here he remainedthree months, then went into the woods in ClearfieldCounty, and for a short time cooked for a party oflumbermen for his board. The winter of 1848-49 hetaught in Grahamton, and in the spring followingwent back to his fathers, and the next fill, as abovestated, attended the Williamsport Seminary. Hisfunds being exhausted, he again taught


History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . ammar, Com-stocks Philosophy, Roses Arithmetic, and Gum-meres Surveying,—lie went to Boalsburg, in CentreCounty, Pa., and clerked in a general store for GeorgeJack, at five dollars per month. Here he remainedthree months, then went into the woods in ClearfieldCounty, and for a short time cooked for a party oflumbermen for his board. The winter of 1848-49 hetaught in Grahamton, and in the spring followingwent back to his fathers, and the next fill, as abovestated, attended the Williamsport Seminary. Hisfunds being exhausted, he again taught school, thistime at Mount Pleasant Mills, in Union County ;afterwards near Unionville, in Centre County. Inthe summer of 1851, Mr. Brugger traveled on footthrough Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,and Ohio, and back to his home in Pennsylvania, allthe way on foot, except crossing Lake Erie and fi-omChicago to Cleveland. He then taught school until1853, when he attended for five months JoshuaHoopes school for boys, at Westchester. He then. -Voy A^R.


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