"History of Millersville"

THE CONESTOGA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY


History of Millersville and the State Normal School
(Now Millersville University)

from

History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

with Biographical Sketches
of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Men.

by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans.



Philadelphia:
Everts & Peck
1883

Chapter XLV
Millersville Borough



NOTE: This was extracted from the History of Manor Township, the author was I. S. Clare. There is additional information about Millersville in the Manor Township section.


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Millersville- The principal village of Manor township is Millersville, which was founded over a century ago by John Miller, and was first called Millersburg, then Millerstown, and lastly Millersville.
Oct. 16, 1738, Michael Mayer took out a patent for two hundred and seventeen acres, the boundaries of which formed a parallelogram. The tract was situated in the Conestoga Manor, near its northeastern boundary, and was surveyed in May, 1737, and the original patent was given by Thomas Penn, Esq. Michael Mayer and his wife, Elizabeth, conveyed the same to their son, Michael Mayer, Jr., June 22, 1745 and May 8, 1749, Michael Mayer, Jr., sold the tract to John Miller, a blacksmith, of Lancaster, for six hundred pounds.
June 4, 1761, John Miller received a patent for one hundred fifty acres adjoining the aforesaid tract, and also another patent on the 19th day of January, 1764, for sixty acres. March 29, 1764, he purchased eight and three-fourths acres from John Correll (Charles) and Magdalena, his wife, who had received a patent for the same July 23, 1761. These tracts contained about four hundred and sixty-two acres. Miller sold one hundred and three acres to Isaac Kauffman. In 1761 he laid out a town in five-acre lots, subject to an annual quit-rent. In the same year he laid out a street upon the four sides of one of his largest purchases. The small tract of eight and three-fourths acres lay on the south side of the street, near the site of the Normal School. Some of the first of these five acres lots were purchased by Paul Hausman, who sold two of them to Abraham Peters, father of the later Abraham Peters, who was born in the place in 1791, and who remained a resident of the place until his death in 1882. The original deed is in the possession of the Peters family, and bears the date 1764, referring, however to Oct. 16, 1738, at which time the tract was purchased by Michael Mayer. The lots purchased by Abraham Peters, Sr., with two additional ones of five acres each, or a parcel containing ten acres, bought by Abraham Peters Sr., from Jacob Sinn, still remain.

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As early as 1764, Hausman kept a tavern here on the site of the present Black Horse, erected by the late Abraham Peters in 1825. There was a store here as early as 1769 or 1770, but the only one of which any record exists was that kept by Philip Shissler about 1789.
John Miller, the founder of the town, occupied a house on the present property of Abraham Frantz. There are two buildings yet standing that were erected before the Revolution. One is a tenement-house, now owned by Henry Lintner. It was built by Jacob Sinn. The other stands nearly opposite, on the Blue Rock road.
A post-office was established in this village as early as 1820, the commission coming to the late Abraham Peters through James Buchanan. John Lintner made an addition to Millerstown in 1810, otherwise the boundaries are the same as at the first laid out. The addition made by Lintner, and called Lintner's division, embraced that part of Millersville on the road from the "Black Horse" Hotel to Lancaster.
Millersville, spread over an area of over two miles, has never become a compact village. The principal thoroughfare is the turnpike leading from Lancaster to Millersville, which was established in 1839. The village has made considerable progress of late, and is now the largest unincorporated town in Lancaster County, having a population of over twelve hundred.
Millersville has improved much within the last twelve years. It now has three general stores, one grocery-store, one shoe-store, on agricultural-implement store, one agricultural-implement manufactory, three hotels, four coach-manufactories, one lumber-yard, two coal-yards, a number of cigar-manufactories, and other business places.
Millersville has five churches,-one Methodist Episcopal, one Evangelical, one Reformed, and two Lutheran Churches. The first church edifice was erected in 1843, jointly by the Lutheran and Reformed congregations. Both of these had church organizations here long prior to this date, as had also the Methodists, who afterwards erected a plain frame edifice. The Evangelical congregation erected a plain brick house about half a mile west of the Normal School, on the turnpike leading to Safe harbor, in 1852. This building was enlarged, and a steeple was added in 1866. The Methodists erected a large new two-story brick building close to the Normal School in 1869-70. The Lutheran and Reformed congregations each erected large two-story brick edifices with large steeples, on the main street, between the Normal School and the "Black Horse Hotel," in 1871. A small Lutheran congregation erected a small but neat brick building not far west of the Normal school in 1876.



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In June, 1874, the street railway from Lancaster to Millersville was constructed at a cost of forty thousand dollars, and it is one of the chief improvements of the place. It was extended to the west end of the village in 1877. The street-cars make seven trips daily between the two places.
The leading citizens of Millersville are Jacob Pickel, a large property-owner, who lives in a large three-story brick dwelling about one-fourth mile west of the Normal School; his son-in-law, Jacob F. Warfel, confectioner, who lives with him; Henry Bowman, merchant, whose dwelling and store are directly opposite; Dr. P. W. Hiestand, dentist, a short distance farther westward, who owns and occupies a large and elegant three-story dwelling; Andrew H. Howard, confectioner, opposite the Normal School; the brothers John and Henry Lintner, living at the upper end of the town. In the southwestern part of the village, about half a mile west of the Normal School, is a steam saw-mill and a coal and lumber yard, owned and conducted by Nunemaker & Levenite. Samuel Shenk has an agricultural implement factory at the upper end of Millersville, and John Stauffer has a grocery-store, an agricultural implement store, and a coal-yard nearly opposite. Amos Baker has a store at the upper end of the village, and Henry Bowman and Mrs. Mary A. Hoofstitler have stores at the lower end. Smith & Hofferd are coach and wagon-makers at the lower end. Abraham Breneman is a coach and wagon-maker in the same part of the village, and his shop is connected with those of Benjamin F. Eshelman and Cyrus Stambach, blacksmiths. Anthony Ernst is a blacksmith and a coach and wagon-maker on the street leading from the Normal School to the "Black Horse". Abner Livengood is a coach and wagon-maker at the upper end of Millersville, just on the west side of the "Black Horse Hotel". Harry Shaub is a blacksmith, just opposite the "Black Horse Hotel." Henry Immel is a blacksmith. Almus M. Brubaker is a saddler at the lower end of the village. Amos Fenstermaker has a cigar and tobacco-store at the lower end. William Widmyer has a barber-shop in the same building, which is owned by Jacob Pickel. Dr. Milton T. Reeder has a drug store close by. Dr. M. T. Reeder is a practicing physician at the lower end of the town, and Dr. Benjmain F. Herr at the upper end. Daniel H. Lintner is a justice of the peace. A. O. Newpher is a postmaster, and his residence is in the lower end of the village; he is also an attorney-at-law, having his office in Lancaster. There are almost twenty cigar manufacturers in the village. For a long period, until about twenty years ago, there were about as many coopers in the place, but the number has gradually dwindled down, and there are now but three to be found in all this extensive village. James Keemer and his son, Henry Keemer, are carpenters. There are now three hotels in the village,-the one at the lower end, opposite Bowman's store, is owned and kept by John H. Miller; the "Black Horse," so long owned by the late Abraham Peters, is now kept by Benjamin F. Daily; and the hotel at the eastern end of the village, in Lintner's division, by Christian B. Herr.
The town has two practicing dentists, Dr. P. W. Hiestand and Dr. A. S. Miller, both living at the lower end of the village on opposite sides of the street. Dr. McCalla, a retired dentist and founder of the State Dental Association, of which he was once president, resides in their immediate neighborhood.
There have been only two new streets laid out in Millersville since the first, and these in the last few years. The private dwellings recently erected in the place are fine structures, either brick or frame. Among the most elegant residences may be mentioned those of Dr. P. W. Hiestand, David Landis, Jacob Landis, Tobias Stehman, Andrew H. Howard, Jacob S. Gamber, the residence of the late Abraham Peters, Henry Lintner, and a number of others.
Millersville had about fifteen years ago three secret organizations. The American Mechanics had a lodge, but it had only an existence of a few years. The Good-Fellows was another secret organization, whose lodge was as short lived as the American Mechanics. The Good Templars, maintained an organization at this place for nearly a quarter of a century, and only disbanded a few years since. It was called Samaritan Lodge, and although at first organized and conducted by citizens of the village, was for the last fifteen years mainly conducted by and composed of Normal School students, the great leader and mainstay of the lodge being Samuel G. Behmer, who since 1864 has been steward of the Normal School. Mr. Behmer's enthusiastic devotion to the cause of temperance and his zeal for the support of the lodge was for a long time seconded by others, but eventually the lodge dwindled down and was finally obliged to dissolve, the members joining elsewhere.
Union Hall was erected in 1861, and was owned by Christian Herr. It was bought by Jacob Pickel in 1871, and is still owned by him. It is located in the lower end of Millersville, beside Mr. Pickel's residence. It is a large three story frame structure. On the second floor is a large hall-room for the meetings of open societies, for lectures, political meetings, concerts, exhibitions, balls, public entertainments, fairs, and public gatherings in general. On the third floor is a large lodge-room. Millersville has had for a long time two large public school buildings, each with two large school-rooms. The house in the central part of the village is a long one-story building with two rooms.



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The State Normal School.-This institution is officially designated as the State Normal School of Pennsylvania of the Second District, but is popularly knows as the Millersville State Normal School. It is located in the town of Millersville, four miles southwest of the city of Lancaster, with which it is connected by an excellent turnpike, and also by a street railway. The school thus possesses all the advantages of a county location, with direct city connections, and is convenient of access from every part of the State.
The Millersville Normal School is one of the largest State Normal Schools in the United States. The buildings cover an area of about thirty thousand square feet, or nearly three-fourths of an acre. The number of students vary from six hundred and fifty to eight hundred a year. During some years it has reached nearly nine hundred. The number of professors and instructors is from twenty to twenty-five, varying with the number of students. The number of persons employed in the management of the boarding department averages about thirty, making a total of about fifty officers, instructors, and employees necessary for the complete running of the institution.
The origin of the school at Millersville was due to the large-heartedness and courage of a handful of citizens in the little village which it has made so conspicuous. And their struggles and sacrifices, personal and pecuniary, to lay the foundations of what developed into this splendid educational institution, is a chapter in the early school history of Pennsylvania, which must survive the institution itself. After the school became a success friends flocked to it in scores. But the names of L. M. Hobbs, Barton B. Martin, Daniel S. Bare, Jonas B. Martin, Jacob Barr, John Brady, which are inscribed on the marble tablet in the old building of 1854, formed the nucleus about which as "the founders" must gather whatever of credit belongs to the starting of the celebrated school, out from whose walls up to this time have come twenty thousand students to dispense broader learning and ampler educational facilities in the commonwealth. The founders were all humble, plain men in their way, but involved with a desire for higher educational privileges for the community. L.M. Hobbs, the village schoolmaster suggested the erection of an academy. B. B. Martin seconded the suggestion with a liberal subscription, being the only man of wealth in the party, so the idea took root and grew, and the present ample dimensions and widespread influence are the result of the initiative of these two men. The others named above each contributed according to his means; one sent his horse and cart to assist in digging the foundations; another superintended without pay; another took the subscription-list among his neighbors. It was a labor of love full of discouragements at the beginning; but by dint of coaxing for funds among the farmers, and appealing to liberally-disposed citizens elsewhere, and by generous subscriptions themselves, the first directors, not without many vicissitudes, succeeded in constructing the original building which they called the Millersville Academy. The extent of their undertaking will be perceived when it is remembered that even in 1855 the county of Lancaster had many people hostile to free schools and the development of the free school system. The State had not yet to any extent become the patron of education. The whole system was new and untried. Millersville became the seat of the pioneer Normal School, because from the buildings and facilities that she put at the disposal of the public this early, men like Hon. Thomas Burroughs and Professor J. P. Wickersham recognized a spirit friendly to education and full of sympathy with the new system.
In the winter of 1854-55 the trustees of the new institution, B. B. Martin, John Brady, D. S. Barr, J. B. Martin, Jacob R. Barr, learning that the county superintendent of Lancaster County was desirous to secure a building in which to hold a three months' teacher's institute, offered their large and commodious structure gratuitously. They promised to supply the want of boarding accommodations by private hospitality, and beside pledged themselves individually for one thousand dollars towards defraying the expenses. Such was the spirit that animated the founders of this celebrated school, and the zeal they manifested in its behalf brought it friends.
This offer was accepted by Professor Wickersham, and a successful institute, opening on the 17th of April, 1855, was held, numbering one hundred and thirty-five students. The faculty of this Normal Institute consisted of the following persons: J. P. Wickersham, A. M., Principal and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Teaching; J. F. Stoddard, A. M., Professor of Mathematics; Cornelius Walker, A. M., Professor of Reading and Elocution; R. T. Cornwell, Professor of Chemistry and Physiology; Dr. C. Cutter, Dr. A. H. Grimshaw, and Professor James Thompson, lecturers on various objects of study; G. C. Hawthorne, Esq., Principal of the Eastern Model School; Amos Horst, Principal of the Western Model School. The two public schools of the town were used as model schools. This normal institute was a great success, and laid the foundation upon which the State Normal School was subsequently erected.
At the close of the Normal Institute, the trustees of the academy decided to enlarge their building and establish a permanent institution, under the name of the Lancaster County Normal School, and elected as its principal Professor John F. Stoddard, who had been Professor of Mathematics during the Normal Institute. This school opened on the 3d of November, 1855, with the following faculty: J. F. Stoddard, A.M., Principal; Edward Brooks, Professor of Grammar and Rhetoric; R.T. Cornwell, Professor of Natural Sciences; S. C. Agnew, Professor of Latin and Greek; Mrs. H. Marie Brooks, Teacher of Music;



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Miss E. Augusta Dart, Teacher of Geography and Drawing; M. L. M. Hobbs, Steward. The school continued in session of a term of five months, and numbered over one hundred students. In the spring of 1856, Professor Wickersham, county superintendent, united a three months' county institute with the Normal School. During the summer Professor Stoddard resigned his position as principal, and Professor J. P. Wickersham was elected his successor, Professor Wickersham resigning his office as county superintendent to accept the position. The school opened again on the second Monday of October with the following faculty: J.P. Wickersham, A. M., Principal and Professor of Mental and Moral Science and the Theory and Practice of Teaching; Edward Brooks, Professor of Mathematics; R. I. Cornwell, Professor of Grammar and Philosophy; E. B. Weaver, Assistant Teacher of Mathematics; Mrs. H. Marie Brooks, Teacher of Music; Miss E. Augusta Dart, Teacher of Drawing and Painting; Miss S. T. Wickersham, Teacher of Grammar and Geography; Miss E. McV. Budd, Teacher of Reading; Miss S. E. Bolton, Assistant Teacher of Grammar and Arithmetic. Mr. L. M. Hobbs was the steward until 1858, when, on his resignation, Mr. D. S. Bare was elected as his successor.
The school, now permanently organized, entered upon that career of prosperity and success for which it has been so widely celebrated. With a clear idea of a teacher's preparation and work, broad and comprehensive views on educational principles, executive and administrative abilities of the highest order, Professor Wickersham gave ten years of devoted and successful labor to the school. Some of the principal facts indicating the growth and success of the school under his administration will be briefly enumerated. To accommodate the increasing number of students, in 1857 the building was enlarged by an addition thirty by forty-six feet, increasing the size of the chapel and furnishing additional recitation rooms. In 1857 the Normal School law, prepared by Dr. Thomas H. Burrowes, who had been a warm friend of the school and a wise counselor of its authorities from the beginning, was passed by the state legislature. In order that the institution might conform to the requirements of the law and became a State normal school, the grounds were enlarged and a new building, forty by one hundred and twelve feet, erected at a cost of over twenty thousand dollars, and on the 3d of December, 1859, the school was formally recognized as the first State Normal School in Pennsylvania. In compliance with the law, Professor Wickersham organized a model school, or school of practice, which, under the superintendency of Professor M. D. Wickersham, a brother of the principal, attained a high degree of excellence, and became a model for the other similar schools of the State. In 1864 the department of boarding, which had previously been in private hands, was united with the department of instruction, and all placed under the charge of the principal, and so judicious was the management that when he resigned, in 1866, every cent of the obligations for improvements had been paid, and the school was left free from debt.
Besides these achievements in organization and building, Professor Wickersham gave great excellence and reputation to his department of the training of teachers. The theoretical part of the professional training was given by carefully-prepared lectures, presenting broad and comprehensive views of education, and clear and practical directions for the work of teaching. These lectures attracted wide attention and were subsequently embodied in his two works on education, "School Economy" and "Methods of Instruction," works of recognized ability and high excellence, which have aided in giving their author not only a national, but also a foreign, reputation.
In the summer of 1866, on the resignation of Professor Wickersham, Professor Edward Brooks was elected principal of the school. Professor Brooks had been connected with the institution since 1855 as professor of mathematics, and by his skill as an instructor and the publication of his normal series of arithmetics, had given the school a reputation for its mathematical training and contributed largely to is popularity and growth. Full of energy and enthusiasm, an accomplished and experienced teacher, and possessing a high ideal of scholastic culture and professional training, he seemed especially fitted to carry on the work so well begun. During his administration many important changes were made and improvements effected that indicate the continued growth and prosperity of the school, and constitute a part of its history. The principal of these will be briefly enumerated.
To accommodate the increasing number of students in 1868, an addition to the ladies' building, ninety by forty feet, was made, which, with the furnishing, and some other needed improvements, cost about $20,000. The business of the school in a few years amounted to from $70,000 to $80,000 a year, and finding the method in use inadequate to insure the satisfactory care and exhibit of income and expenditures, a complete reorganization of the business management was effected on a plan of great simplicity and accuracy. In 1874, the school having again outgrown its accommodations, a large central building, one hundred and thirty by sixty feet, was erected, affording a new chapel, recitation-rooms, library-rooms, dining-room, etc. This is the largest and most important improvement ever made to the building, with its furniture and other accompanying expenses cost about $50,000. The building committee consisted of Abraham Peters, Edward Brooks, Jacob M. Frantz, Jacob G. Peters, Andrew M. Frantz, George Levan, and P. W. Hiestand, whose names are inscribed on a marble tablet set in the wall of the chapel. A further improvement consisted in converting the old chapel and recitation-rooms into



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student rooms, and raising the gentleman's wing of the building one story, the cost of which was about 20,500. About the same time the grounds were enlarged by the purchase of several acres of land lying across the street in front of the school, at a cost of fifteen hundred dollars, to prevent the erection of buildings which might be detrimental to the institution.
Another very important achievement during this administration was the cancellation of the capital stock of the institution. For the erection of the original building, and the earlier additions, stock has been issued amounting to about eleven hundred dollars, which at the par value of twenty-five dollars was worth twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. This stock, for many years almost valueless, selling as low as two or three dollars a share, was gradually bought up by a few business men. To avert the disaster that would have resulted from the payment of dividends, the stockholders were induced to agree to the adoption of a plan by which the stock would be purchased at its par value and canceled, provided that any who would might contribute stock, the contributors having the power to elect twelve out of the eighteen members of the board of trustees. The pursuance of this plan nearly two hundred shares were contributed, and the balance, over nine hundred shares, were purchased and canceled, the expense being paid out of the net earnings of the school. All these improvements and changes, in connection with the purchase of philosophical apparatus, increase of library, and purchase of musical instruments, cost over one hundred and ten thousand dollars, and so successful was the school, and so carefully the management of its finances that, on the resignation of Professor Brooks, in 1883, the school was in a condition to pay the entire indebtedness, which, with the exemption of fifty thousand dollars received from the state, had been saved out of the net earnings of the school.
This enlargement of the body of the school was but one indication of the development of its intellectual life and the steady increase in its popularity and efficiency. The success of the school was due mainly to two causes: first, the thorough and practical instruction given in the different branches, and, second, the excellence of the methods adopted for the professional training of the students for teachers. In order to elevate the scholastic standing of the school, the departments of instruction were more definitely arranged, a new department of English literature established, the salaries of the instructors raised, and efforts made to secure instructors of distinguished ability at the head of each department. In the department of professional instruction, two things were emphasized: a thorough knowledge of the nature of the mind, and a practical knowledge of the inductive method of primary instruction; and the reputation of the school for its course in mental philosophy and the excellence of its methods in primary instruction attracted wide attention, and drew to its halls students from nearly every part of the State. Out of the professional training of the student-teachers grew Professor Brooks' two treatises on education, "Normal Methods of Teaching" and "Mental Science and Culture," works which extended the reputation of the school and of their author. His series on normal arithmetics, algebra and geometry, which were widely used in the public schools, also advertised the institution and attracted students to it. The growth of the institution is also very largely due to the skill and devoted labors of a very able faculty, many of whom have attained a State reputation, and several of whom have become popular authors of works which, advertised the school and increased its popularity and patronage. Besides this the great skill and efficiency manifested by its graduates and students, many of whom became distinguished as county and city superintendents, principals of high and graded schools, and professors in normal and other schools, helped to extend the reputation of which any institution might be proud.
The teachers who have especially aided in the growth and prosperity of the school, many of whom are still connected with it, deserve mention in this sketch. They are as follows: A. R. Byerly, A. M., Professor of Latin and Greek, elected in1859, widely known as an able thinker and a popular and efficient instructor; E. B. Weaver, Professor of Natural Science, elected in 1857, died in 1863; M. D. Wickersham, Superintendent of Model School, elected in 1859, resigned in 1861; J. Willis Westlake, A. M., Professor of English Literature, elected in 1869, author of "Three Thousand Practice Words, " "How to Write Letters, " and "Common School Literature;"Thomas R. Baker, Ph. D., Professor of Natural Science, elected in 1868, author of "Natural Philosophy" and "Chemistry"; J. V. Montgomery, A. M., Professor of Drawing and Penmanship, elected in 1861, Superintendent of the Model School, author of a system of drawing; B. F. Shaub, A. M., Professor of Natural Science, elected in 1869, and resigned after two years to accept the office of county superintendent; E. Oram Lyte, A., M. Professor of Grammar and Bookkeeping, elected in 1869, author of "Practical Bookkeeping," "Forms of Parsing and Analysis, " and "English Grammar"; D. M. Sensenig, M. S., Professor of Mathematics, elected in 1870, resigned in 1875; Frank Albert, M. E., Professor of Mathematics, elected in 1873; Joseph H. Landis, M. E., Superintendent of the Model School, elected in 1875; H. Marie Brooks, Teacher of Music, elected in 1855; Annie E. Hartman, Teacher of Grammar and French, elected in 1866, for many years preceptress, resigned in 1881;



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Jane E. Leonard, Teacher of History and Geography, elected in 1863, resigned in 1875; Eliza G. Westlake, Teacher of Reading and Elocution, elected in 1867; Annie Lyle, Teacher of History, elected in 1873, now preceptresss; Mary Mc J. Lyte, Teacher of Geography, elected in 1872. The steward, Mr. S. G. Behmeer, elected in 1865, has also given many years devoted and efficient labor to the school.
The trustees who have been especially interested and efficient in the management of the institution are as follows: Abraham Peters, elected president of the board of trustees in 1856, and held the office until his death in 1882; George K. Reed, elected in 1866, and made president of the board in 1882; Jacob M. Frantz, elected in 1856, and for many years chairman of the finance committee; Jacob G. Peters, elected in 1864, and for many years chairman of the household committee; Andrew M. Frantz, Esq., elected in 1861, and for many years secretary and chairman of the committee on grounds and buildings; Dr. P. W. Hiestand, elected in 1857, for many years treasurer and chairman of committee on instruction and discipline; George Leban, elected in 1862, and for many years chairman of committee on library and school furniture; B. B. Martin, elected in 1856; John Brady, elected in 1856; J. R. Barr, elected in 1856; J. B. Martin, elected in 1856; Jacob R. Shenk, elected in 1856; D. S. Bare, elected in 1856, for several years secretary and treasurer; Hon. Thomas H. Burrowes, elected in 1857; Henry Bowman, elected in 1860; Hon. A. E. Roberts, elected in 1865; David Hartman, elected in 1858, died in 1881; Christian B. Herr, elected in 1856; Hon. John Strohm, elected in 1861; Hon. John B. Warfel, elected in 1872; Hon. John M. Stehman, elected in 1873; Hon. John B. Livingstone, elected in 1873; Hon. A. L. Hayes, elected in 1860; Jacob Bausman, elected in 1870; Abraham Frantz, elected in 1864, several years secretary; Charles Dennes, Esq., elected in 1865, several years secretary; Levi S. Reist, elected in 1873; Dr. S. T. Davis, elected in 1866; Dr. John W. Hess, elected in 1867, etc.
In the spring of 1883, upon the resignation of Professor Edward Brooks, who had been connected with the school twenty-eight years, eleven as Professor of Mathematics, and seventeen as principal, Professor B. F. Shaub, superintendent of Lancaster County and a graduate of the school was elected as his successor. The eminent qualifications of Professor Shaub give promise of an administration of great popularity and success, and the future historian of the county will have the pleasure of adding another bright page to the history of the Normal School.

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