. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . ok. Professor J. Irvin White was the principalof the schools. The edifice is T-shaped, and has twostories besides a basement. It fronts toward MooreStreet one hundred and thirty-four feet, and extendsback fifty four feet and five inches, with a northernextension seventy-six feet and seven inches longand fifty-four feet wide. Fourteen schools can becomfortably accommodated in rooms provided with For many years the sexes were separated. As therewere six schools this arrangement admitted of onlythree grades, and after the first Monday of
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . ok. Professor J. Irvin White was the principalof the schools. The edifice is T-shaped, and has twostories besides a basement. It fronts toward MooreStreet one hundred and thirty-four feet, and extendsback fifty four feet and five inches, with a northernextension seventy-six feet and seven inches longand fifty-four feet wide. Fourteen schools can becomfortably accommodated in rooms provided with For many years the sexes were separated. As therewere six schools this arrangement admitted of onlythree grades, and after the first Monday of June,1862, the board, that then consisted of Elias Bartol,David Black, Henry Glazier, J. Simpson Africa, H. Reid, and J. B. Luden, , resolvedthat boys and girls should be placed together in thesame schools, and thereby an increase in the numberof grades made. The teachers, Jan. 31, 1863, were asfollows: I., S. Bryson Chaney; II., Mrs. A. T. K. Hutchin-son; III., Robert Turbett; IV., Sarah H. Mayer;v., Ella A. Glazier; VI., Jennie M. many conveniences of nioilcrn design, and all heatedby steam. The wants of the school population of the upperpart of the borough were met by the purchase of alot on the northwestern corner of Moore and Four-teenth Streets in 1873, and the erection thereon of atwo-story brick house for the accommodation of fourschools. It was com|ileted and occupied <iuring thefpllowing winter. A brick building had been previously erected westof Cherry Alley, south of Oneida Street, for the ac-commodation of the colored scholars, who receivedinstruction^ here for several years. The propertywas sold two or three years ago, and the house con-verted into a dwelling. The colored children arenow taught in the other schools. For the year enilingthe first Monday of June, 1862,the whole number of male scholars was two hundredand forty-three; female, two hundred and eighteen;number of months taught, nine; whole number ofschools, eight. In 1872, H. L.
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