A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1868, J^t?r the first decade following their Graduation. SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL, MILLERSYTLLE, PA. i ^ J. ZEAMER, Historian. Printed by W. Hayes Griee, "Herald," Columbia, Pa., JULY, 1878. v^'- ^ A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 18(38, For the first decade following their Graduation. SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL, MILLERSVILLE, PA. J. ZEAMER, Historian. Printed by W. Hayes Grier, "Hebald," Columbia, Pa., JULY, 1878. DR. EDWARD BROOKS. THE SCHOLAR, AUTHOR, AND EDUCATOR, THE CLASS OF 1868, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBE THIS LITTLE VOLIIMK AS A TESTIMONIAL OF THEIR ESTEEM. preface. In a conversation with a classmate several years ago, it was care- lessly remarked that it would be a good thing to publish a small book, containing our graduating essays, orations, and our history. It was merely the expression of a stray idea, and at that time neither expected it ever to be realized. The years rolled by, and our labors of collecting the history began. Letters from the different members of the class came straggling in, and one from distant Kansas suggested that the work be published, so each might know where the others were, and what they had done since our separation. This suggestion was enlarged upon, and communicated to the others. All approved it in some form, and quite a number were enthusi- astic in its favor. In that way it had its humble origin ; here, it is full grown, and modestly does it ask a welcome from those who may be interested in the class of 1868. Our labors of finding the whereabouts of the different members of the class, began last March. Time had scattered them. Ten years ago they were " opposites " at the Normal tables; they are still "opposites," but States, seas, and the world are between them. Scores of postal cards were sent out to them, and to persons who were thought likely to know something of them. After these, were sent scores of letters containing the most pitiful appeals for infor- mation. These reached them direct, or through some friend, or were returned, but many were never answered. Some responded promptly, but the larger number, apparently with reluctance, as though they considered the historian over-officious, and meant to teach him better manners by cool treatment. He is of the average hopeful temperament, yet discouragement very nearly overcame him in this work. Once he had almost concluded to give it up, and enjoy his leisure in a cheaper and less laborious style, but his selfish desire for success spurred him on, and here are the results of his ambition. Had the cooperation of his classmates been more free, prompt, and hearty, his labors would have been lighter, his temper sweeter, the history more of a success, and they would all CLASS OF i86S. now be better satisfied. As the work was not written for gain — its profit-factor proving a minus quantity — it is hoped that its readers will Be to its virtues very kind, Be to its faults a little blind. When its author writes a book to sell, he will not seek immunity from literary dissection, but for the last four months he has been entirely absorbed in the service of his classmates, and has not had time to think of a last will and testament, or other preliminaries to literal annihilation, and hence hopes for charitable treatment. J. Z. Columbia, Pa.,y>//v 29, 1878. SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. faculty, 1815 7-8, Principal. Edward Brooks, A. M. Professor of Latin, Greek, and English Grammar. A. R. BvERLY, A. M. Professor of Mathematics. C. H. Harding. Professor of Natural Sciences. Thomas R. Baker, M. S. Superintendent of Model School. J. V. Montgomery. Professor of German. S. Z. Sharp. Assistant in Mathematics. W. U. Brewer. Assistant in Teaching and Matliematics. H. G. Rush. Teacher of History and Geography. Jennie E. Leonard. Teaclier of Elocution. Eliza G. Smith. Teacher of English Grammar and French. Annie E. Hartman. Assistant in Mathematics. Sallie E. Hudson. CLASS OF i86S. Teacher of Music. Lottie E. Tillman. Steward and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings. Samuel G. Behmer. Matron. Mrs. Eliz.'VBETH Wirshing. Committee on Final Examination. J. P. WiCKERSHAM, Superintendent Common Schools. F. A. Allen, Principal Fifth Normal School District. J. A. Cooper, Principal Twelfth Normal School District. John S. Ermentrout, Principal Third Normal School District. S. B. Heiges, Superintendent of York county. David Evans, Superintendent of Lancaster county. 1 SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 9 1878. 05va(Tuatcd (Tlass. i878. Scientific Course. G. W. Obekholtzee, C. E., . Sioux City, Iowa. Elementary Course. Anna R. Ball, . Hatboro', Pa. Laura C. B. Prather, . . . Cliambersbiirg, Pa. Hattie I. Bruckart, Litiz, Pa. Maggie S. Davis, .... . 524 N. Forty-fourth St., Phila., Pa. Mattie M. Fore, .... . Burnt Cabins, Pa. Rachie J. Hudson, . . . . Tokio, Japan. E. Hattie Jones, Topeka, Kansas. Fannie D. James, .... . Baltimore, Md. Nancy Johnston Douglas, . Shirley, 111. i Bell Johnston. . Allegheny City, Pa. .Annie L. Field, .... . Darby, Pa. R.A.CHIE P. Frey, . . . Sioux City, Iowa. Sallie J. Richards, . . . . Talladega, Ala. Mary S. Verlenden, . Darby, Pa. Maggie Steacv Dungan, . . Halifax, Pa. Dr. H. C. Bartleson, . . . 5902 Baltimore avenue, Phila., Pa. J. N. Barr, M. E., ... . Altoona, Pa. Rev. W. W. Cook, . . . . Manayunk, Pa. Watson Cornell, .... . 2020 N. Tenth street, Phila., Pa. G. H. Desch, Supt., . . . . Allentown, Pa. VV. C. Evans, Att'y-at-law, . Norristown, Pa. A. D. Eisenhower, . . . Norristown, Pa. Rev. I. M. Gable, . . . . Guthriesville, Pa. B. F. Hudson, Att'y-at-law, . .-^TcHiNSON, Kansas. E. O. Lyte, . Millersville, Pa. George Marsden, ... . Pennfield, Pa. D. McMullen, Att'y-at-law, . Lancaster, Pa. W. S. McPherkan, . . . Brookville, Pa. W. F. Overholt, .... . Rising Sun, Md. B. C: Rich, . Ellis, Kansas. George C. Ruth, . . . Millville, Pa. Rev. G. H. Slaybaugh, . New Kingston, Pa, W. D. Weaver, Att'y-at-law, . Lancaster, Pa. J. Zeamer, . Columbia, Pa. 1 10 CLASS OF tSbS. 1868. Oivaduatiucj OTlass. 1868. Scientific Course, G. W. Oberholtzer, .... Lionville, Pa. Elementary Course. Anna R. Bye, Buckingham, Pa. Laur.\ C. Brewer, .... Greencastle, Pa. Hattie I. Bruckart, . , . Litiz, Pa. Maggie S. Davis, Haverford, Pa. - Mattie M. Fore, McConnellsburg, Pa. Rachie J, Hudson, .... Hopewell Cotton Works, Pa. E. Hattie Haves Aberdeen, Md. Fannie D. James, Baltimore, Md. Nancy Johnston, Allegheny City, Pa. Bell Johnston, Allegheny City, Pa. Annie E. Lincoln Kingsessing, Pa. Rachie T. Pierce, Millersville, Pa. Sallie J. Richards, .... Darby, Pa. Mary W. Serrill, Darby, Pa. Maggie E. Steacy, .... Sterling, III. H. C. Bartleson, ..... Pleasantville, Md. J. N. Barr, Strasburg, Pa. W. W. Cook, Richboro', Pa. Watson Cornell, Richboro', Pa. G. Harry Desch, Spinnerstown, Pa. W. C. Evans, Pottstown, Pa. A. D. Eisenhower, .... Newburg, Pa. I. M. Gable, Windsor, Pa. B. F. Hudson, Hopewell Cotton Works Pa. Eliphalet Oram Lyte, . . Enterprise, Pa. George Marsden, East Sharpsburg, Pa. D. McMullen, Mount Hope, Pa. W. Scott McPherran, . . . Spruce Creek, Pa. W. F. Overholt, Wrightsdale, Pa. B. C. Rich, Three Tons, Pa. George C. Ruth, . ... Buckingham, Pa. • G. H. Slaybaugh, Menallen, Pa. Edward Stover, Middletown, Pa. W. D. Weaver, ■ . Terre Hill, Pa. J. Zeamer, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 1 SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. W ^tixtc itovmul i«chcii.il (Commencement MillersvUle, Pa,., Thursday, July 16, 1868. Morning Session.— 9 o'clock. PRAYER. MUSIC. Chorus — " Come Friend.'i, and join our Song." Salutatory Essay — You are wanted at the Front, Laura C. Brewer. Oration — Santa Filoniena, . . ■ Edward Stover. MUSIC. Piano Duet — Le.^ Gardes ^'alt^. Essay — Social Errors, Rachie T. Peirce. Oration — We Live in Deeds, W. C. Evans. MUSIC. Q,VAViTETTE—"Eva7igeHne." Oration — The Levellers of Society, L M. Gable. Essay — Alters of Sacrifice, ALattie M. Fore. Oration — Ups and Downs of Lite, George Marsden. MUSIC. Piano Solo — Concert March. Essay — Within the Fold, Maggie S. Davis. Oration — All is Lost but Honor, Watson Cornell. MUSIC. Duet — "7n the Starlight." Oration — Our Nation's Growth, B. C. Rich. Essay — Take thy Banner, Belle Johnston. Oration — Royal Within, G. H. Slaybaugh. 12 CLASS OF iS6S. MUSIC. Piano Ddet — Les Dames de Seville. Essay — Longing Rachie J. Hudson. Oration — Erin Mavourneen, J. N. Barr. MUSIC. QuAETKTTK — "' quiet ways, Kind voices speak my name. And lips that find it hard to i^raise Are slow, at least, to blame. Miss FANNY D. JAMES, of Baltimore, Maryland, Launched from the graduating platform into a summer's sea of pleasant recreation, after which she obtained a situation as teacher SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 21 at Salunga, Lancaster county. Here she put in an experience of six months, whicli was to lier novel in the extreme, at one time came very near drowning by breaking through the ice while skating. Closing her labors the following spring, she retired to the shades of her Normal home, there to assume the responsible title of "resident graduate," and it is needless to say that she bore the honor all the summer through without impairing her health or the vivacity of her spirits. From the fall of 1869 to June, 1870, she taught in the city of Wilkes-Barre. A portion of the following summer she spent very pleasantly on Staten Island, New York, enjoying the honor and pleasure of making several trips up the Hudson river. She also spent some time during 1870 and 187 1 at her home in the city of Balti- more. In the fall of 1872, she went to Clearfield, Pa., where she taught in a select school of young ladies, with Miss Hattie Swan, who was formerly a student of Millersville. Here she spent a de- lightful year. The following winter she spent in Baltimore. In the spring of 1874, she had an attack of the " Westward, Ho !" fever, and indulged to find relief. She visited the city of St. Louis for three months, then went to Topeka, Kansas, where she re- mained four months. The following September she came back to Clearfield, where she taught in the public schools for one )"ear, and would have continued longer, but in 1875 the directors were seized with an inordinate fit of economy, and reduced the salary to a point much below what she considered the value of her services, so she declined in favor of some one else. Since then she has not been teaching. During the summer of 1876 she visited our mutual friend and classmate, Maggie S. Davis, at Philadelpliia, and while there enjoyed the Centennial Exhibition no less than twenty times. In March, 1877, she concluded to take another trip to the West. This time she remained in St. Louis four months, then visited Topeka. While at Topeka, the cry was still " Westward, Ho !" so she, in com- pany with her friends, went on a trip to Colorado, and spent a Sun- day in Pueblo. From the high table lands surrounding Pueblo they could see Pike's Peak and the snow upon it, a distance of seventy- five miles ; they could see the Spanish Peaks, one hundred and fifty miles olT, and they could even see much further than that when the atmosphere was not in a hazy condition — they could see the moon. She spent eight months in Topeka, and meanwhile had the pleasure of frequently seeing and visiting our friend and class-mate, Mrs. Howell Jones, formerly E. Hattie Hayes. In March, 1878, she left 22 CLASS OF iS6S. Topeka for the East. On her way she stopped in St. Louis about six weeks, then at Clearfield two weeks, and then at Philadelphia, where she has been enjoying the hospitalities of our classmate, Miss Maggie S. Davis. I liold it. true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most, — 'Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all. Never trouijle trouble till trouble troubles you. Mrs. NANCY JOHNSTON DOUGLAS. county, Illinois. of Shirely, McLean During the first year after graduation, taught as assistant principal for eight months in a graded school at Sewickley, Allegheny county. Pa. She closed her school on the last day of May, 1869, and on the 9th day of June, following, Simeon, the man of God, performed the ceremony which made her the wife of J. L. Douglas, a former student of this institution. At the time of their marriage her hus- band was teaching at Shirley, Illinois, and as he had the opportunity of becoming telegraph operator and general superintendent at the railroad station in that town, Mrs. Douglas took charge of his school, and finished the unexpired term, enabling him to accept the posi- tion. The term following she taught the same school. She learned telegraphing, and at one time was in charge of her husband's office as night operator. Her husband is postmaster, and, as his duties at the station require most of his time, Mrs. Douglas attends to the mails, often making them up and distributing them. She also ren- ders him assistance by having ahnost entire charge of his books. Her time is fully occupied, and she has visited her Pennsylvania home only three times since she left it on her wedding day, more than nine years ago. She has four little children, Laura, who walked and talked when five months old, Clara, Mary, and Isaac, just taking his first steps, whom she was unwilling to leave, and the oppressively hot weather made it inadvisable to bring them a great distance, or she would probably have joined us in our .re-union. In the begin- ning of last May they had a sad loss; their house, with the greater part of its contents, being destroyed by fire. Among the many val- uable things that fell a prey to the conflagration were furniture and all kinds of clothing, from her husband's hat to her baby's shoe, but SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL'. 23 harder to replace than these were about two hundred highly prized volumes of their library, from the unabridged dictionary down to a Normal school catalogue. BELL JOHNSTON, of Allegheny City. Pa. Since leaving the Normal has taught three and half years in Alle- gheny city, at a salary of §500 per year. The remainder of the time she resided at home with her father, brother, and sisters. She paid her sister in the West a visit since she resides in Shirley, spend- ing one winter there and also visited the Centennial Exhibition two years ago. She has visited her Alma Mater but once since graduating, then only during a vacation. Still, through our paltrj'Stir and strife, Glows down the wislied ideal. And longing molds in clay wliat life Carves in the marble real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal ; Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the .soul iiuniortal. ANNIE LINCOLN FIELD, of Darby. Pa. Started her professional career by teaching a school in Lancaster- ville, alias Wrangletown, in Montgomery county, where she con- tinued for almost two years in spite of a three-mile walk to the rail- road, to the district teachers' institute, and other similar disadvan- tages and discouragements. She next obtained a school in Delaware county, and, when her vacation arrived, she. liy the glowing descrip- tion of an acquaintance, was induced to spend several months in hot, dusty Philadelphia, learning tooperate the telegraph. This experience was not very satisfactory, and v,-hen October arrived, she again found her way back to the school-room, a wiser and more contented woman. She applied for and was appointed to the Jarrettown school, in Montgomery county, situated in a district adjoining the one in whiih she first engaged in the profession. As the term advanced, the school became too large for one teacher to manage advantageously, so an assistant was appointed for her, which assistant was a gentle- man, and took charge of the primary department. She remained in this situation only two years, when she left it with the determi- y 24 CLASS OF 1868. nation to accept an altogether new role. On a lovely October morn, just before the melancholy .days had come, when all nature was decked in golden, variegated, kaleidoscopic hues, she bid adieu to single blessedness, and departed for "Fresher Fields and pa-stures new," adding another name to her own by means of matrimonial bonds. She is now Mrs. Anna L. Field, lives in her native county of Dela- ware, near Darby, is the happy mother of two sons, whom some day she desires to see graduates of the Millersville Normal School. Cliildren are what the mothers are. No fonde.st fathei-'.s care Can lashion so the infant heart As tliose creative beams that dart, With all their hojies and fears, upon The cradle of a sleeping son. RACHIE P. FREY. of Sioux City, Iowa, Taught in Lancaster county, not far from Millersville, immediately after her graduation. How long she continued to teach in Penn- sylvania the historian was unable to ascertain, either directly or in- directly, but three years afterwards she removed to the eastern part of Iowa, having previously married a Mr. Frey. After living in east- ern Iowa near four years, they removed to the north-western part of that State, where they have since resided. Mrs. Frey has been en- gaged at teaching during the greater part of the last four years, and says she enjoys it very much. For two years past she has been teaching in the primary schools of Sioux City, at a salary of fifty dollars per month. She has two little girls, one eight years old, and the other over five. On learning of the intended reunion of the class, she was so desirous of joining us that she could scarcely forego the pleasure of coming, but distance and unfavorable circumstances compelled her to give up the idea, and in her answer to that effect, she says: " You cannot know how I long to come, and I find my- self constantly picturing the scene, as I presume it shall be at the Normal on that occasion." SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 25 SALLIEJ. RICHARDS, of Talladega, Alabama, On leaving the Normal in 1868, obtained a situation in a graded school at Barren Hill, Montgomery county, Pa. Here she taught a large school, mostly of small scholars, with good success for two years. She might have had the situation a longer time had she so desired, but she wished to see something of the West. In the sum- mer of 1870 she went to Washington county, Indiana, where she remained nearly a year, four months of which time she taught an ungraded school. Her scholars here were generally large, and her success good. The following summer she left Indiana for Illinois, and succeeded in getting a school at Holder, nine miles from the city of Bloomington, which situation she retained for two years. She then left the profession for several years for a new sphere of duty, which, upon a fair trial, proved unsatisfactory, and she re- turned to the school-room again, teaching near Bloomington, near which city she had her home from the time she went there in 187 1. In the summer of 1877, she went to Iowa, where she remained tintil the I St of the following December, then she went to Oxford, Ala- bama, for the purpose of taking a course at Oxford College. On the 2ist of last June, she graduated from Oxford College with honors, in a class of ten, the course embracing the higher studies, languages, etc. When last heard from, she was not engaged at any thing spe- cially, but was looking around for a situation in a high school, normal school, or some institution of that grade and character. Her career, professionally, has been generally successful, and her present is very promising of a bright and happy future, yet during a part of the time since our parting here, ten years ago, she was the victim of a most agonizing sorrow. It is but meet for us, her more fortu- nate class-mates, to extend to her Christian sympathy, and prayerfully bid her : Oh, be of comfort ! Make patience a noble fortitude. And think not how unkindly we are us'd : Man, lilve a cassia, is prov'd best being bruis'd. Mrs. MARY SERRILL VERLENDEN, of Darby, Pa. Began teaching in a little one-story school-house in Upper Darby, Delaware county. Pa., in the fall of 1868. The school was un- graded, but quite pleasant, and she retained the situation a year and 26 CLASS OF iS6S. six months. Immediately after this, she finished an unexpired term of two months in Concord, in the same county. During two months of the fall of 1870, she taught a preparatory class in Swathmore College, after which she spent the remainder of that year at her home. In 1872, she began teaching in Darby, and continued in the same place for two years and three months, leaving only because the superintendent of Delaware county insisted upon an examina- tion before he would sign her application for a master diploma. Having resigned for these reasons, she remained without any situa- tion until the following fall, when she was appointed teacher of the first grammar school in Mount Holly, New Jersey, where she re- mained two years. On the 14th of September, 1876, she was married to W. Lane Verlenden, a cotton and woolen manufacturer, of Darby, where she now has her home. In the ten years that have elapsed since we, in a body, passed over the threshold of our alma mater out into the frowning world, she has revisited the Normal three times, and always with very great pleasure. She informs us, with all the pride of a devoted mother, that she possess the lovliest and healthiest boy baby that the class can produce, and care for him is all that causes her to forego the great pleasure of attending our reunion. I know he's CDining by this sign, That bab}''s almost wild: See how he laughs and crows and starts — Heaven bless the merry child ! Mrs. MAGGIE STEACY DUNGAN. of Halifax. Dauphin County, Pa. Formerly of Sterling, Illinois, entered the Millersville State Normal School in the spring of 1866. In the spring of 1867, at the request of the principal. Professor E. Brooks, she became pupil assistant, which position she held until graduating in the summer of 1868. During the vacation following her graduation, she was elected by the school board of Columbia, Pa., to a position in the high school of that town, but, before word had reached her officially of the action of the board, she had been elected as regular member of the State Normal Faculty. After carefully considering the advantages of each position, she choose to continue at the Normal. As assist- ant in the geographical department, she entered upon her new duties SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 27 in the fall of 1868. In the spring of 1869, she was promoted to the head of the geographical department, which position she held until her marriage in March, I875. As a stranger, thirteen hundred miles from home, and unknown by any" one at the Normal, she timidly entered its walls, with a mind uncultivated, yet burning with a zealous ambition to secure intellectual culture and advancement. As a member of the D division, she commenced her normal career, little dreaming that nine years would elapse ere she would leave its friendly shade. With a desire to secure the. intellectual and moral advancement of her pupils, she labored earnestly and willingly. In March of 1875, '""^r professional career was ended by her mar- riage to Reverend J. Dungan, a member of the Philadelphia Con- ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the time of their marriage, Mr. Dungan was stationed at Millersville, but he was soon afterwards removed to Mt. Joy, where they lived two years, and thence to Halifax, Dauphin county, where they have since resided. They have two children, twins, a boy and a girl. Her new field of labor lies before her with duties even more responsible than those of the old. As a wife and a mother, her duties as a teacher, in a diviner sense, ever press upon her with a weight such as constantly directs her mind for guidance and wisdom to the Great Teacher. More liunian, more divine than we, 111 truth, luilf huiiiaii, half divine, Is woman, wlieii good stars agree To temper with their beams benign The hour of her nativity. GEORGE W. OBERHOLTZER, Sioux City, Iowa. Graduated in the elementary course of the Pennsylvania State Nor- mal School, at Millersville, in 1866. In September, of the same year, he accepted a position as principal of the public schools at Dun- cannon, Pa. In 1868, he graduated in the scientific course of the Millersville Normal School, then taught at Sugartown, Pa. ; a few months after which, he accepted the position of teacher of mathe- matics and English in Union Hall Academy, at Jamaica, Long Is- land, N. Y. Our informant does not say whether he liked teaching, nor does he speak of his success, but whatever either or both may have been, he concluded to study for the profession of civil engi- neer, and graduated at the Pennsylvania Polytechnic College, 28 CLASS OF iSbS. Philadelphia, in the class of 1871, having passed a private examina- tion, and entered in the senior year. In August, 1871, he accepted a position as assistant engineer on the Burlington and Missouri River railroad, in Nebraska, and dwelt in a tent amidst the " Eternal sea of grass and sky," on the prairies of central Nebraska, until the completion of the road, in 1872. We next hear of him in Sioux City, Iowa, where in May, 1872, he opens an office for a general surveying and engi- neering practice. The Sioux are an observing tribe, and soon appreciate the worth of a captive, so in March, 1873, they elect Friend Oberholtzer their city engineer. Naturally confirming their convictions, they reelect him in 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878. It is reported, on good authority, that in the State of Oregon the cows become so old, that it is ne- cessary to fasten broomsticks on to the ends of their horns for the wrinkles to grow out on. Were we to report this history forty years hence, we would be in very much the same predicament in recording his reiilections, for he, unlike President Hayes, is not committed to a single term. In October, 1877, he was also elected county sur- veyor of Woodbury county, Iowa, and as our fellow-classmate is yet a young man of an aspiring nature, we may expect to hear of still further promotion as the vigorous young Northwest looms into pro- minence. On the i8th of December, 1877, he made Miss Rosa M. Allen, a Sioux City teacher, from the Keystone State, Mrs. George W. Ober- holtzer, and after a few weeks reunion amongst the friends and relations of both the high contracting parties in Pennsylvania, en- tered upon their home-life in February, 1878, in a house he had built the previous summer. He regards his life in the last decade not an eventful one, only a succession of quiet, persistent, and in a measure, successful work, and he is evidently happy as he claims, as his own, the poet's sentiment: " Homo 's not merely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and guilded. Home is where affection csUls, And the heart its slirine has l)uilded. "Home! go ask tlie faithful dove, .Sailing in the arch above us. Home is where tlicre's one to love, Home is where there's one to love to us." SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 29 Distance, and the surveying engagements of the summer, prevented him from joining us in our class reunion, but he wishes to have it known, that should any of us ever wander as far into the interior as Sioux City, we will always find the latch-string out at the house of our old classmate. Dr. H. C. BARTLESON. of Philadelphia, Directly upon leaving the Normal in 1868, began the study of medicine, and in the spring of 1870, graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He hung out his shingle in the western suburbs of that city, and up to this time has continued in the same vicinity relieving pain, healing the sick, and doing good in his professional line generally. In the latter part of 1873, he married Miss Clara V. Thompson, of Philadelphia, since which time his family has increased by the addition of two boys, Bartleson by name, aged respectively four and two years. Although we admit that the patient can oftener do without the doctor, than the doctor without the patient, still "A wise physician, skilled our woiiuds to lieal, Is more than arniies to tlie public weal." J. N. BARR, M. E.. of Altoom. Pa. The winter following our graduation, taught school in Lampeter township, Lancaster county. At the close of the term he returned to the Normal, and in the summer of 1869, graduated in the scien- tific course. Then he obtained a situation at the Lehigh University, where he spent two years as assistant to the professor in mathematics. While thus engaged he employed his leisure, of which he had an abundance, in studying the branches pertaining to mechanical engi- neering, and in June, 1871, he received his diploma as Mechanical Engineer. The commencement exercises at the Lehigh LTniversity took place on Thursday, and the following Monday he went into the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at West Philadel- phia, " under instructions." This situation he obtained through the assistance of Mr. Joseph Baker, formerly an officer of the company. Here he spent eighteen months. His blue overalls, at first neat and new, grew gray with service, and the greasy black spots that settled upon them no amount of washing would remove. The novelty of 30 CLASS OF iS68. his duties, cliipping and filing, starting and stopping machines, and reducing rough pieces of iron to the shape prescribed by drawings made elsewhere, was at first interesting, but in the course of a few months the ten hours thus daily spent began to grow exceedingly uniform and correspondingly irksome. In reality the amount of knowledge necessary to make a workman in a machine shop is com- paratively small and soon acquired, manual dexterity being the main thing. After about eighteen months of this kind of service, he was called into the shop of the master mechanic, and instructed to report to Mr. Cassatt. the then general manager of the company. Here he received orders to report to Mr. Gardner, then superintendent of motive power, at Altoona, on January i, 1873, and given charge of a position in the office of the mechanical engineer of the company. After spending about three months in this office, the department of building and general machinery was placed in his charge, which po- sition he retained until March, 1874, when he was placed in charge of the wheel foundry of the company as foreman. About one year afterwards the wheels and axles on the road were also put into his charge, together with the records pertaining to the same. The ex- penditures of the wheel foundry amount to about two thousand dollars per day, or about six hundred thousand dollars per year, which fact, together with that of the immense amount of capital invested in wheels and axles in the service of the road, show clearly that his sit- uation is one of great responsibility and importance. Friend Barr's responsible duties involve the prudent expenditure of the money ne- cessary to operate the wheel foundry, and the judicious management of the wheels and axles in service, so as to secure the best returns for the capital invested. His career, since our separation at the Normal, ten years ago, has been one continuous scene of steady work, and his gradual promotion, from one important post to another, shows equally continuous and steady progress and success. Although wheels and axles have occupied his head for years past, to the ex- clusion of almost everything else, they did not run away with his heart. That was securely moored to a fair object at the Millersville Normal School, and neither wheels, axles, pullies, levers, wind, weather, or waves ever moved it, as is proven by the fact that early in 187s he took to himself as wife Miss Ella Brooks of the class of 1812. Their home has since been in Altoona, Pa., and is rendered all the more dear and homelike for having in it a child they call " our son, John." SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL, 31 Rev. W. W. COOK, of Manayunk, Pa. After graduating at the Normal, was sent to Smyrna, Del., to see trustees, who wished to employ a teacher. Said trustees "wanted to see the build of a man before they employed him, as their last teacher had been carried out by the boys." They seemed satisfied with Cook's proportions, and were about clinching the bargain when he learned that they e,\pected him to teach twelve months for a year's salary, and that any vacation taken would be deducted from the salary. He immediately resigned. They were, however, gen- erous enough to pay the e.xpenses of his trip, and as an equivalent for this generosity, he informed them that " ten months make one year" in the Normal teachers' calendar, and also that there were plenty of young ladies in the class of 1868, the fire of whose eyes would do more than the avoirdupois of any man's inches to control their boys. In September, 1868, he entered the grammar school of Rutger's College, to study Latin and Greek preparatory to a college course. The following January he became assistant teacher in the same school, continuing his studies, which double-duty impaired his health by spring ; he therefore went to Clearfield county in May, and took charge of a class of teachers, who wanted to acquire some Normal freshness. He taught, rambled among the mountains, re- cruited health, studied Greek, and in September entered Rutger's College. He informs us that he had the usual college experiences, from which we might infer he hazed, was hazed, rebelled, was ex- pelled, and the various other crooked e.Nperiences so common to colleges now-a-days, but our knowledge of his nature will not justify such an inference, for he was always a good Cook. As editor of a college paper, he had a term of journalizing, and his extra hours he employed in teaching Japanese youth. These he found apt and in- teresting, being eager students of the Bible, as well as of language, and he hopes a normal influence was left upon their intellectual development, as well as upon their religious views. In 1870 honors commenced. He was elected anniversary orator of the Normal society, was too busy to accept, bat appreciated the compliment all the same. Of college prizes, he gained two for essays, one for a speech, and one for an examination in the natural sciences. They now compose the contents of the most valued shelf of his library. 32 CLASS OF iS68. He graduated from college in 1873, and in September, of the same year, entered Union Tiieological Seminary, with a view of preparing for the Gospel ministry. Earlier in life he had enter- tained such intentions, but was diverted for a time to teaching, as the nearest kin to the profession for which his heart yearned. During the vacations of his seminary course, he engaged in elementary preaching in Maine and northern New York, good places in which to work and recruit, on account of the bracing mountain air. This he claims an excellent educating process. In September, 1875, he married Miss Sue D. Richardson, a member of the class of 1864. His wife accompanied him to New York for his last year in the seminary, and he now avers that from actual experience, he knows a student's life to be much more enjoya- ble when one's chum is a partner for life, and that New York affords grand opportunities for a married couple to study together the varied range of books and humanity. He graduated from the seminary May 8, 1876; was ordained and installed pastor of the Fourth Reformed Church, Philadelphia, at Manayunk, May 9, and helped to open the Centennial on May 10 — helped to swell the crowd, and the profits. He commenced the new century as one of the preachers who shall endeavor to leaven the thought of the coming ages. On the 25th of May, 187b, he married his first couple, who promise to turn out well, and he wishes it announced that he is prepared to help forward in the same way, to happiness, any members of the class of 1868, who may still be pining in loneliness. Let the only bachelor, and all the spinsters of the class, not lose the opportunity this reunion affords. Since entering the ministry, he has followed nineteen to the grave, baptized forty-five, received sixty-three into the fellowship of the Church, and married sixteen couple. In September, 1876, a little girl, a cooky, came to their home, and now contributes her share of innocent prattle to brighten and cheer their way. A retro- spect of his experience, gives him a very high appreciation of Normal training. Having mingled with men from most colleges, he has become fairly convinced that no college gives as good a foundation for correct and vigorous English as our Normal. He is thankful for having had access to both, but were he to choose between them, he would select the Normal. He reminds his classmates that the century is moving forward, and hopes that they may have a share SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 33 in advancing all in it of good, and that at the next Centennial, we may have a grand reunion in Bi-Centennial Educational Hall, in Philadelphia. One decade has already sped, and only a brief ninety years more remain. How practicable ! He, however, adds: " Goa disposes. Let us place our lives at His disposal, and so be ready for a glad reunion beyond earth's changes, there to perfect our educa- tion, in the advantages of the full light that shines from the 'Throne of God.'" Tlie heiglits by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. WATSON CORNELL, of Philadelphia, From December i, iS6g, until the following May, taught a district school in Bucks county. Pa., when an engagement was made for him to take charge of a private school of young ladies and gentlemen, in Luthersburg, Clearfield county. In September of that year, he returned to Bucks county, and took charge of the Andalusia public school, which position he retained until April, 1870, when the prin- cipalship of a consolidated school in the Twenty-sixth ward of Philadelphia, was tendered him, which he accepted. In the spring of 1S71, the congregation of the North Tenth Street Presbyterian Church, appreciating his musical qualifications, selected him for their chorister. This position he still retains. In 18715, the Philadelphia Board of Education, in addition to his regular duties as teacher, appointed him principal of the night school for men and boys in the thirtieth section, in 1876 in the twenty- sixth section, and in 1877 "'' the first section. These night schools are very large, registering from four hundred to six hundred pupils, which makes the principal actually a superintendent. Friend Cor- nell was one of the singers selected for the chorus at the opening of the Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, and is regarded as one of Phila- delphia's good vocalists. His career has been anything but an idle one. He has been advancing gradually, with each step he took, and the position he has- reached in his profession is one with which he expresses himself well pleased, causing us to infer that it is not only honorable but profitable as well. His professional duties, however 34 CLASS OF rS6S. arduous, did not occupy his time and attention exclusively, for it seems he found time to woo and wed. He was married on the i8th May, 1874, to the daughter of Honorable James Hurtt, who for several years was a representative at Harrisburg. He has two sons who take after their father, as they are both children of promise. Ask me no more, wliither does haste The nightingale, when May is past. For in your sweet, dividing tliroat Slie winters and Iceeps warm lier note. How music cliarms ! How metre warms! Parent of actions good and brave ! How vice it tames, And worth inflames, And holds proud empire o'er the grave ! GEORGE H. DESCH. City Supemtendenf of Mentown, Pa. Attended the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association, which con- vened at Allentown in the August following our graduation. While there, he was informed of a vacancy in the male grammar school, then the only school of the kind in the place. He immediately made application, returned to his home, and in a week or so after- wards was notified of his appointment to the position he sought. On the ist of September he took charge of it, and continued in the same school for three successive terms ; then the board of con- trollers saw fit to promote him to the position of teacher of the male high school, a more laborious, but at the same time a more lucrative charge. This situation he was master of for seven con- secutive years, or to the end of the last school year, since the close of which he was unanimously elected Superintendent of the Public Schools of Allentown. He has not grown rich in worldly goods in the e.xercise of his profession, for few who enter the teachers' ranks with eyes open can hope to become so, but he modestly claims the sweet pleasure of having won the youth growing up under his care, to be his truest friends and warmest supporters; the positive assurance that boys, because of your instruction, grow up into gond, noble men, is, after all, the best remuneration of a devoted teacher. The " ups and downs" of this life are many, and our esteemed SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 35 classmate was not permitted to pursue the even tenor of his way the whole past decade through without some unusual disturbance to his social life. On the i8th July, 1872, he received a Shock, but this shock came not in the shape of a misfortune, but in the shape of a bride ; he bid a fond farewell to single blessedness, and married Miss Emma A. Shock, one of Schuylkill county's fair daughters. This he acknowledges to be one of the best of his many good works, and so entirely satisfactory to him has been the change, that he ad- vises the only bachelor and all the spinsters of the class to go imme- diately and do likewise, as the shock can easily be survived. Should curiosity prompt any of you to ask of how many his family consists, he will promptly answer: "We are three," meaning himself, his wife, and a very active and charming little daughter, two years old, the sunshine of the family. The shock has left its effects upon his mind, for all the foregoing terms of endearment are his own, giving as an excuse his being the father. In the spring of 1873, he withdrew his patronage from the Allen- town boarding-houses, and commenced housekeeping in his own home. No. 514 Turner street, Allentown, where we shall leave him to -'while the happy hours away." For humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day tlie martyr stands. On tlie morrow crouches Judas, witli the silver in his hands; Fariu the front tlie cross stands ready, and the craclvliug fagots liurn. While tlie hooting mob of yesterda\- in silent awe return To glean up the scattered aslies into history's golden urn. WARREN C. EVANS, Attorney- at- Law. Nomstom. Pa. In the winter of i868-6g, taught an ungraded public school for six months, in Lancaster county. He contracted a severe cold during the winter, and was indisposed much of the succeeding summer. The following winter he taught a similar school near Pottstown, Montgomery county. In the spring of 1870, ht entered a law office in Norristown, and on May 18, 1871, was admitted to the Montgomery county bar. About one month afterwards he opened an office all by himself, and has been paddling his own canoe in the same cell ever since, meeting with fair success in his profession. On December 21, 1876, he was married to Miss Emma Beerer, of Nor- ristown. They immediately commenced housekeeping in Pottstown, where they still reside. A darling daughter has blessed the union. 36 CLASS OF iS6S. In a letter dated July 3, 1878, he says: "Your letter furnished food for thought, retrospective. It carried rae back to a scene big with hope and fate set to view in the old library room at the Nor- mal ten years ago to-day. There sat the class of '68, anxious, heated, vexed, closing a long and trying ordeal of final examina- tion. From the Monday morning of that week imtil late on the eve of that memorable 4th of July, we held the fort, and always came up smiling, reserving our denunciations until that wonderful board of State examiners vamosed the ranche. It is much more pleas- ant to deal with it now than it was then. Many incidents I recall, and I suppose the minds of more of that class are running in that same channel to you." Yet, I doubt not, through the age.s One ini-reusing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened Witli tlie proce.ss of its suns. Professor k.D. EISENHOWER, of Norrisfown. Pa. After graudating in July, 186S, accepted a position as principal of the public schools at Shippensburg, Pa. At his request, in March, 1869, the board of directors released him from his engagement with them, and he returned to the Normal as assistant in mathematics and " theory of teaching." This position he occupied until July, 1872, pursuing the studies of the scientific course meanwhile, and graduating in that course July, 1871. It was his intention on leaving the Normal to cjuit teaching, and engage in the ministry. For the purpose of preparing himself, he went to Crozer Theological Seminary, at Chester, Pa. Remaining there part of one year, he left on account of his health, and con- cluded to resume the work of teaching. In September, 1873, ^e entered upon his duties as principal of the Norristown high school, where he has labored during the past five years. In July, 1874, he presided over the alumni exercises, and m May, 1878, over the an- niversary exercises of the Page Literary Society. In December 29, 1874, he was married to Miss Etta B. Livezey, of the class of 1871. They are now "keeping house," and are always pleased to have any of their classmates, or other Normal friends, to call and see them. SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 37 I shot an arrow in the air, It fell to earth, 1 knew not where, For so swift it flew, tlie sight Could not follow in its fliglit. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where. For who has sight so swift and strong. That it can follow the flight of song. Long, long afterwards, still unbroke, I found the arrow in an oak. And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. Rev. I. M. GABLE, of Guthriesville, Chester county, Pa. On leaving the Normal, was elected principal of the Franklin School of East Donegal, Lancaster county, with Miss Sallie Boyle as his as- sistant. This position he continued to hold until in the spring of 1870. During the first year here the patrons, in addition to his sal- ary, paid his board, and in order to secure his services for a second year, paid not only his board but that of his wife also. The direct- ors of the township urged him to become a candidate for the county superintendency, and nominated him for that office in convention in May, 1872, which facts attest his success and the value of his ser- vice;; more strongly than the diction of the historian's pen. In the spring of 1870 he was appointed principal of the Mt. Joy Soldiers' Or- phan School, which, under him and his assistants, attained a rank second to none of that class of schools in the State. In September, 1862, he resigned his position here preparatory to entering the min- istry of the M. E. Church the following spring. Meanwhile he took a trip across the Alleghenies for the purpose of seeing the coijntry, and delivering a lecture on ''Latent Power," in Springfield and Canton, Ohio. He joined the M. E. Church at Mt. Joy, under Rev. S. A. Heilner, as pastor, in 1871. became a member of the Philadelphia Conference of that Church at Columbia, in 1873, ^"^ was appointed to the Hummelstown, Dauphin county, charge, which he served three years. In 1876, he was appointed to Atglen, Chester county, where he reiliained two years, and was removed against the strong remonstrances of his members, but the officers of the confer- ence jdelded to the request of another charge, and appointed him to Guthriesville, Chester county, which is his present field of labor. 38 CLASS OF iS68. Atglen he left reluctlantly. but finds Gutliriesville a very pleasant appointment, as it is located in one of the most beautiful and wealthy parts of Chester county. The community is intelligent, there being probably no less than twenty-five or thirty ex-students of Millersville, several of whom are graduates, members of his congregation. Of his success since in the ministry, we have no higher encomiums, nor can we have, than mere naked facts. Hear ye them. At Hummels- town, the membership of the Church more than doubled during the three years of his administration. At Atglen he found a member- ship of less than one hundred, and in two years left it at two hun- dred and eight. He seems to have the faculty of getting all the good out of life there is in it. He graduated at the age of twenty- three, was married at twenty-four, and has already had and served with success three charges. On the 25th of May, 1869, he married Miss Mary C. Blessing, of Hellam, York county, being the pioneer benedict of the class, and he now boasts of two children, a girl and a boy ; the girl will soon be ready to walk the halls and enter the recitation rooms of her father's A/ma Mater. For tlie .structure that we raise Tune is with materials filled, Our to-days and 3-esterdays Are tlie blocks with which we build. Build to-day then, strong and sure. With a firm and ample base. And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. B. F. HUDSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Atchison, Kansas. After graduating at Millersville, entered the law department of the Michigan University, at Ann Harbor, in October, 1868. Here he remained two years, graduating in 1870, and receiving his diploma as L.L. B. Without being able to give any very good reason for his actions, except a desire to yield obedience to the great journalist's injunction of " Go West, young man, go West," he at once sought a western home, like most young men then. He reached Missouri, but, as if by instinct, passed directly through that State, crossed the Big Muddy, and after visiting the principal towns in Kansas, con- cluded to locate in Atchison, the "railroad center" of the State, SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 39 a thriving young city of about thirteen thousand inhabitants, where he commenced the practice of the law in the fall of 1870, and where he has remained ever since. On the iSth October, 1871, he was married to Miss Kittie Mitchell, of Ann Harbor, Michigan. They have had two children, a boy and a girl. When only two years and three months old, death rudely robbed them of the elder, their little cherub boy, of whom they were so proud. Their little girl is now between three and four years old, and renders their home happy and cheerful, children being the sunshine of home. He has been somewhat engaged in politics, having been four times elected in succession, and is about to close his last official term as attorney for the -city of Atchison. He, however, has no high encomiums to pass upon politics or politicians as a rule, and thinks them a good thing for a young man just commencing life to let alone. He is pleased with his profession, and is grateful for the measure of success that has attended his efforts in its practice. Of his adopted State he is likewise proud — proud to be called a Kansan — but at the same time strongly loving and cherishing a deep and abiding faith in the old Keystone. Grasshoppers, he says, are not feared now as formerly. The State claims eight hundred thousand inhabitants now, and if immigration is not interrupted, by 1880 will fully reach one million. Jlan for the field, and woman for the hearth, Man for the sword, and for the needle she, Man for the head, and woman for the heart, Man to command, and woman to obey. All else confusion. Professor E. 0. LYTE, of Millersville, Pa. Has taught at the Normal School since graduating in 1868, his first position being teacher of rhetoric, book-keeping, and grammar. Since 1873, he has been professor of vocal music, grammar and book- keeping, and is so announced in the catalogue of the school. In the spring of 1872, he arrived at the very sensible conclusion that he had stood in his own light long enough, so he made amends for much of his past folly by associating a luminary, and since then they have been traveling along through space a very happy pair of Lytes. We will be a little more explicit : He was married in the spring of 1872, to Miss Mary Mcjunkin, of the c'ass of 1871. 40 CLASS OF 1868. He was graduated in 1S76, in the scientific course of the Millers- ville Normal School, and in June of the present year, received the honorary degree of A. M. from Franklin and Marshall College. He was one of the editorial staff of The Normal Monthly, during the first part of its brief life. About 1871 and 187:, he wrote a little work on book-keeping, which ran through two editions, and is now out of print. He is also author of three music books, two of which are having good sales, and the third is now in press. He has also engaged some at institute work, written for the newspapers, and devised oral and written methods of parsing and analysis, that are deserving of more than mere casual mention. "Three removes are as bad as a fire," is an experience friend Lyte has not tasted, as he has been firmly rooted to the same spot from the first, unlike most of his classmates. As unto the bow the cord is. So unti) the man is woman. Tliongli she bends hiin, she obeys him, Thougli slie draws liim, yet slie follows, Useless eacli witliout the other. Professor GEORGE MARSDEN, of Clearfield County. Pa. Upon leaving Millersville in 1868, was appointed teacher of the female department of the Tyrone high school. He declined the offer, as he favored the co-education of the sexes, and secured the school at Tyrone Forge for a term of six months, at .sixty dollars per month. From the close of this term, he worked on the farm until the following August, when Mr. L. Cort, principal of the Juniata Collegiate Institute, at Martinsburg, Blair county, engaged him as first assistant for the year, but which er.gagement terminated at the end of six months, owing to the principal's lack of success in making it pay pecuniarily. In March, 1S70, he filled a one month vacancy in one of the Altoona schools, after which he opened a county normal school in Frankstown, two miles from Hollidaysburg, with an attendance of about forty, consisting of teachers and others, at the rate of two dollars ekch a month. Encouraged with this suc- cess, he opened a second term for six months the following Septem- ber. So satisfactory were the results of this term, that he opened a third for three months with excellent attendance, running up the profits to $80 and Si 25 per month. Against the wishes of the peo- SECOND DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 41 pie, he declined continuing here, owing to the secluded nature of a private school, as only the more wealthy class could attend it; so in the tall of 1870, he was employed as principal of the graded schools of Ebensburg, Cambria county, where he taught the high school, and exercised authority over the other grades, visiting them every Wednesday. Here he received for his services seventy-five dollars per month, term six months. After the close of the regular term, he conducted a normal school for three months more, with fair attend- ance. Not wholly satisfied here, he concluded to try his fortunes further east, and for three weeks taught in the vicinity of Philadel- phia. He became dissatisfied and quit. On his return home, he learned that a man of his description was wanted in Pennfield, Clear- field county, and, on going there, was found to fill the bill, and given charge of the school in October, 1872. The people there were mostly Yankees, and, Yankee-like, favored good schools. He soon found that they were favorable to grading the school. He labored diligently to promote this sentiment, talking and arguing in its be- half upon every favorable opportunity, and, finally, in the spring of 1873 the board of directors decided to grade, ordered the new building, and friend Marsden was happy. The building was finished that year, and is completely modern in all its details, provided with patent desks, heated with furnaces, with the grounds, is estimated to be worth ;^IS,ooo, and is the finest building in that section of the country. That fall he was appointed its principal, at a salary of St,ooo for ten months, and the best evidence of his success lies in the fact that he has held the same position ever since, a period of six years. The opposition engendered by the expense of the new departure was at times outspoken, but has completely subsided, leav- ing Marsden master of the field, with a petition at his back praying that he continue to " hold the fort." Several of his pupils since passing from under his instruction have graduated at State normal sc;:Ools, in an attendance of one year. In addition to his work in the school-room, he has attended county institutes in Blair, Cam- bria, and Clearfield ; been to the State's Teachers' Association at Greensburg, Lancaster, Williamsport, Philadelphia, and West Chester ; spent about two weeks at the Centennial ; in August, 1875, got married to Miss Mariha M. Woodward, and now resides at Pennfield. To complete his course at Millersville, he had incurred a debt of five or six hundred dollars, of which he duly relieved himself, and 42 CLASS OF iS6S. thus hath history recorded the "ups and downs" in the Hfe of our fellow classmate, George Marsden. We have not wings; we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, l^y more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. D. McMullen, Money- at- Law, Lancastet, Pa. Pleads guilty to having felt wiser when he left our venerable A/ma Mater, than he ever will again. After the stirring events of " final examination," and the rich feast of eloquence of commencement dav, he retired to his home in the northern part of Lancaster county for a i^^ weeks, to digest his new greatness, eat blackberries, and — harvest oats. His amusement was brief, for a summons from the oil regions, instigated by Professor Brooks, soon reached him, re- questing that he put in an appearance as principal of the public schools of Venango City, and that his replication be filed at once. His case headed the list, and he made defense by opening the schools — four in number — on the first Monday in September. They were tolerably well graded, and occupied a comfortable school-building on the south side of the Allegheny river, commanding a beautiful view of Oil City and the surrounding county. He had under his management about three hundred pupils, and for assistants, he retained the services of three ladies. This trial lasted through the whole term of eight months, and the jury of the vicinage gave him a very favorable verdict. We did not learn the amount of his fee. A successful lawyer is seldom long without a case, and our friend Mack was soon retained by Superintendent Snyder, of Clearfield, in the suit of one of Snyder's " County Nor- mal Schools," located at Glen Hope, that county, vs. public igno- rance. He took up this case about the middle of May, 1869, find- ing it a school of all grades, from teacher down to a, b, c, Darian. This was the toughest school case of his whole life. He organized a model department, which was prosecuted under his supervision, by his advanced pupils. The classes of this department recited in the rear end of the school-room, while he himself was engaged with the advanced classes in the other. This was equity, at the expense of law and order, but notwithstanding the adverse circumstances, the verdict was favorable to the plaintiffs, and ignorance lost. One of SECOXD DISTRICT NORMAL SCHOOL. 43 his pupils in this school was Mr. Charles W. Rishel, who afterwards became a very successful student of the old Normal herself. At the same time, our friend Watson Cornell was engaged in prosecuting a similar case at Luthersburg, but as their courts were far apart, and the roads bad, they never met to compare notes. He closed his term at Glen Hope about the middle of August, and immediately repaired again to Venango City, to take up his second term there. Here, with oil all around him, it naturally soaked into his brain, and lubricated his conception, otherwise your historian cannot ac- count for his sudden sliding away from the profession of teaching, into that of law. He put himself under instruction of Hugh Gra- ham, Esq., of the Venango county bar, until the close of his term in April, 1S70; then resigned his position as principal, came to Lancaster, entered the law office of S. H. Reynolds, Esq., where he continued his studies until admitted to the bar, December 14, 1S7J. Since then he has steadily and successfully practiced his new prufession, in the same office. On January 6, 1874, he took to himself as wife Miss Sue Lightner, of Lancaster, went to housekeeping on .\-[)x\\ I, following, has two girl babies, is a member of the Lan- caster city council, was a delegate to the late convention at Pitts- burgh, where he helped to nominate the next Governor of Peiinsyl- vania — A. H. Dill, and is credited with mauy other good acts. He resides in his own house, No. 222 East Orange street, where all his classmates and friends are invited to call, your historian being able to testify to the e.xcellence of his hospitality, for he has enjoyed it. "When e'er a noble deed is wrought, Wlien e'er is spolien a noljle thouglit, Our souls, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls. Into our inmost being rolls. And lifts us unawares, Out of all meaner cares. rioni->r to those whose words or dee