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structor and Assistant Professor of
History and Sociology, Union Uni-
versity, 1897-1902; Assistant Superin- tendent of the Charity Organization So- ciety. Hartford. Conn., 1894-1895; Special Representative of the United States Bu- reau of Education in England, 1897: His- torical Expert on the tenth edition of the oť Encyclopædia Britannica. Author "Colonization of the Middle States and Maryland" ( Barrie & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.). "History of Taxation in Connecti- cut." "The Study of History," "Biograph- ical Notes," and of monographs and arti- cles on historical, economic, and socio- logical subjects. Member of the Ameri- can Historical Association. also of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Alpha of Maryland (Johns Hopkins University), also of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Address. Low Buildings. Bryn Mawr Col- lege. Bryn Mawr. Pa.
JONES, George Miller:
Lawyer; born in Reading. Pa .. Sept. S, 1874; was graduated from the Reading High School in 1891; received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, with honors. from the University of Pennsylvania. 1896: studied law under the instruction of Isaac Hiester. Esq., of Reading; ad- mitted to bar in Berks County in 1898. Married Mabel Catharine Lutz April 10. 1001. Republican. Address. 532 Wash- ington St .. Reading, Pa.
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JONES, Henry Lawrence:
Clergyman; born in New York, May 30, 1839; son of Rev. Dr. Lot and Mary Ann Jones; was graduated from Colum- bia College 1858. A. M., 1861. Married October 6, 1869, Sarah Eastman Coffin. Ordained deacon, May, 1861, and priest May, 1863; assistant to his father at the Church of the Epiphany, New York, 1861- 1863; organized the parish and was rector of Christ Church 1863-1864, erecting hand- some stone edifice, which was consecrated in 1868; rector St. Stephen's Church, Wilkesbarre, Pa., since 1874; has added seven missions to parish and erected sev- eral church buildings. Life member of New York Historical Society; Vice Pres- ident Wyoming Historical and Geological Society; President Osterhout Free Li- brary. Address, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
JONES, Horace C .:
Manufacturer; born June 16, 1857; edu- cated in the Scientific Department of the University of Pennsylvania; entered the firm of E. D. & E. Jones, large lumber dealers, to represent his father's inter- est, continuing in it till 1880, when he organized the firm of H. C. Jones & Co .; took the Schuylkill Woolen Mills, and since then has devoted himself to this flourishing enterprise. His first partner in this was Stanley Lees, but he retired in 1885, and was succeeded by John Booth, who became manager of the mills. In addition to his active labors in the de- velopment of the Schuylkill Mills, Mr. Jones has become prominent in other. concerns, being a Director of the Consho- hocken Woolen and Gas Light Companies and of the First National Bank of Con- shohocken, and the Norristown Title and Trust Company, and is Secretary and Treasurer of the Electric Light and Pow- er Company of Conshohocken. He gives his chief attention, however, to the Schuylkill Woolen Mills. He is a mem- ber of the Union League and the Manu- facturers' Clubs of Philadelphia. Address, Conshohocken, Pa.
JONES, James Francis:
Physician, teacher, Secretary; born in South Wales. June 1, 1864; son of Rev. Benjamin and Margaret Jones; educated in country schools and preparatory de- partment of Denison University; Mari- etta College, graduating 1892; Harvard University, graduating B. S., 1993. Took course in veterinary medicine in the On- tario Veterinary College, Toronto, Can-
ada, graduating in 1886; graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, and regis- tered as qualified physician and surgeon under the laws of Ohio in 1896; Instruc- tor in Marietta College, 1893-1896; Asso- ciate Professor of Biology, Marietta Col- lege, 1896-1899; Lecturer, Ohio Veterinary College, 1894-1896. Member of the Com- mittee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem; Secretary since 1901 of the Pan-Racial Institute. Address, 233 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JONES, John H .:
President of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal Company; born in Greenock, Allegheny County, Oct. 7, 1866; educated in the public schools of Monongahela, finish- ing with a business education in Pitts- burg. When he was seventeen years old he was made a inine foreman; was next promoted to General Superintendent, and by the time he attained his majority he was manager of his father's extensive mining interests. In 1896 he was in- strumental in forming the James Jones and Sons Company, which was absorbed by the Monongahela combine in 1899; the Pittsburg and Buffalo Company was formed later and has been an important factor in the Western Pennsylvania coal trade. He is also Treasurer of the John- etta Coal Company and the Washington and Greene Railroad Company; he was active in the organization of the Monon- gahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company and became one of its leading officers. Address Frick Building, Pitts- burg, Pa.
JONES, Nathan Dudley:
Lawyer; born in Archbald, Pa., May 27, 1856, the son of Edward Jones, a suc- cessful coal operator. He was educated in Keystone Academy, Wyoming Seminary and Harvard College, entering the Law Department of Harvard and graduating LL. B. in 1879. A year earlier he had been admitted to the bar of Middlesex County, Mass. After graduating he went to Wilkesbarre, Pa,; spent a year in the office of Alexander Farnham, and was ad- mitted to the Lackawanna County bar in 1880. He opened an office in Scranton and entered actively into general practice. In 1895 Mr. Jones was elected District Attorney of Lackawanna County by the Republican Party, and in isps was re- elected for a second three-years' term. Mr. Jones enjoys a large legal business, is active in political campaigns, and is
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eloquent -alike at the bar and on the rostrum. For eight years he officiated as Director and Secretary of the Blakely Poor Board. Address, Easton, Pa.
JONES, John R .:
Mine and oil operator; born in Pine Grove Township, Warren County, Pa., March 15, 1862; resided there and at War- ren until the age of twenty-two, when he went to Lima, Ohio, and engaged in oil development. In 1SS4 he went to Pitts- burg and engaged in various lines of ac- tivity until 1SSS, when he again entered the oil industry; in Allegheny oil oper- ations he became prominent and opened up the McCurdy and McDonald oil fields, the second largest producing fields in the State of Pennsylvania. From 1883 until 1892 he was associated with J. M. Pat- terson, but since 1892 has conducted oil and mining operations under his own name. Among the mining properties with which he is associated are the Smoky City Gold Mining and Milling Company, the Cuyamaca Ranch and Mining Com- pany, and others located in the Cripple Creek district. Address, 805 Tradesmen's .Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
JONES, Owen:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Third Assistant Engineer (Mid- shipman) United States Navy, Feb. 19, 1863; Second Assistant Engineer ( Mas- ter), June 20, 1864; resigned, Dec. 22, 1866; elected Feb. 7, 1894. Address, 1225 North Tenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JONES, Richmond L .:
Lawyer; born Feb. 17, 1840, and after a thorough training in the best schools of this country, completed his education at the University of Heidelberg, Ger- many. Before entering that world-re- nowned institution, however, he went to South American with the United States expedition against Paraguay, visiting the islands of St. Thomas and Barbadoes in the West Indies and the principal cities of the east coast of South America, and, sailing a thousand miles up the Parana Rivera to Asuncion; was present at the capitulation of Lopez, which crowned the success of the expedition. After a so- journ of several years in Europe, he re- turned to America and entered the law office of his father as a student, and. having been thoroughly qualified. was admitted to the bar of Berks County,
April 14, 1863. He was subsequently ad- mitted to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth and to the bar of Phila- delphia and other counties of the State. He has recently been appointed by the Bar Association of Pennsylvania Chair- man of a committee to revise the corpo- ration laws of the State. He is general counsel for the United Power and Trans- portation Company and the Interstate Railway Company, corporations controll- ing over five hundred miles of street rail- ways in Pennsylvania and the adjoining States. It was mainly through his ef- forts that the city of Reading recovered title to the tract of land, lost for nearly a hundred years, at the foot of Penn's Mount, now beautifully improved as the city park and known as Penn Common; and that the free library of the city, of which he is President, was rescued from obscurity and sacrifice, placed upon an enduring foundation by liberal private contributions headed with his name, and then adopted by the public as worthy of maintenance out of the common purse. In 1862, on the invasion of Maryland by the Confederate Army, Mr. Jones enlisted as a private soldier, and was present at * the battle of Antietam, and in 1863 he was made Captain of a company of Penn- sylvania Volunteers. In 1866 he was elected a member of the Legislature from the county of Berks, and was twice re- elected, and in 1868, his second term, he received his party's nomination for the Speakership. Mr. Jones is a vestryman of Christ (Episcopal) Church, Reading, and a Director in many local organiza- tions. He is also a member of the Col- onial Society of Pennsylvania, Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution. Society of the War of 1812, and Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Jones is de- scended from a long line of distinguished colonial and Revolutionary ancestors on both sides of his house. His father, J. Glancy Jones, was an able lawyer and distinguished member of Congress from Berks County from 1850 to 1859, during his last term having been Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means. He resigned his seat in Congress to accept the appointment of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria, which office he held during the trying times of the commencement of the Civil War, when our relations with foreign countries were extremely delicate. Mr. Jones's great-grandfather, Col. Jonathan Jones, was Senior Captain of the first
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regiment raised in Pennsylvania for the Continental Army, October, 1775. He par- ticipated in the winter campaign for the relief of the army at Quebec, after the death of Montgomery, and also in many important engagements. For distin- guished services he was promoted to the rank of Major, and later to that of Lieu- tenant Colonel in the Pennsylvania Line. Mr. Jones's great-great-grandfather, Da- vid Jones, came from Merioneth, Wales, to Pennsylvania in 1721 and bought a large tract of land in Caernarvon Town- ship, where he opened and developed iron ore mines, which still bear his name. Mr. Jones's mother was the daughter of William Rodman, of Bucks County, who was a Brigade Quartermaster in the Army of the Revolution, and afterward a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania and of the Twelfth Congress of the United States. The Rodman family is one of the oldest in the New World, having settled in America in the early part of the seventeenth century, and con- tributed to the colonies many of their most distinguished citizens. On Nov. 26, 1870, Mr. Jones married Margaret Ellen McCarty, daughter of James McCarty, a prominent ironmaster of Reading, and Rebecca MacVeagh, his wife. He has one daughter, who is the wife of Nathaniel Ferguson, of Reading. Address, Reading, Pa.
JO .. ES, Woodrufff:
Chemical manufacturer; born in Pitts- burg. Pa., Jan. 7, 1843; grandson of Aquilla Jones, a Philadelphia merchant in the East India trade. He was educated in several Philadelphia schools, obtaining his higher education in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated from the Department of Arts in 1860. He then took a position with Crew, Rogers & Crew, manufacturing chemists, at the same time attending lectures in the Phil- adelphia College of Pharmacy. During the war he was Second Lieutenant in the First Philadelphia Battery, and served through the Antietam and Gettysburg campaigns. Subsequently he engaged in the manufacture of chemical and phar- maceutical preparations until 1878, when he entered the white lead, oil and color factory of John T. Lewis & Bro., of which company he became Secretary and Treasurer on its incorporation in 1SS9. These positions he still retains. Mr. Jones was one of the founders of the Science and Art Club of Germantown.
Address, 5303 Germantown Ave., Phila- delphia, Pa.
JONES, Richard Mott:
Head master William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, since 1875; born in South China, Maine, June 20, 1843; son of Eli and Sibyl (Jones) Jones; - was graduated from Haverford College in 1867. President of Literary Society; President of class in senior year, vale- dictorian, class day orator, and in 1876 alumni orator; LL. D., Haverford, 1991; University of Pennsylvania, 1902. Mar- ried at South China, Me .. June 5, 1873, Annie Virginia Costello of Bangor, Me. Member Society of Friends; head master Oak Grove Seminary, Maine, 1870-1874. Residence, Haverford, Pa .; office, 8 South Twelfth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JONES, Rufus M .. A. M., Litt. D .:
Professor of Philosophy, Haverford College, Pennsylvania; editor of American Friend; born in South China, Me., Jan. 25, 1863; prepared for college at Friends' School. Providence, R. I .; was graduated from Haverford College in 1SS5; studied in Heidelberg University, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard. Taught at Friends' School, Providence, R. I., and at Oak Grove Seminary, Vassalboro, Me .; professor at Haverford College since 1894. Married in 18SS to Sarah H. Cou- tant of Ardonia, N. Y., who died in 1899; in 1902 married Elizabeth B. Cadbury of Philadelphia. Published works: "Life of Eli and Sybil Jones," 1SS ?; "Practical Christianity." 1899; "A Dynamic Faith," 1901; "A Boy's Religion from Memory." 1902; "George Fox, an Autobiography," 1903. Address, Haverford, Pa,
JONES, S. F .:
President of the Valley Deposit and Trust Company of Belle Vernon. Ad- dress, Belle Vernon, Fayette County, Pa.
JONES, Samuel Robert:
Lieutenant Colonel United States Ar- my; born in and appointed from Penn- sylvania; cadet Military Academy, Sept. 1. 1862; Second Lieutenant Fourth Artil- lery, June 17, 1867; First Lieutenant. Aug. 22. 1871; Regimental Quartermas- ter, Dec. 9, 18S7. to Jan. 24, 1891; Cap- tain, Jan. 24. 1891; transferred to Quar- termaster's Department. April 20, 1892: Major Quartermaster Volunteers, May 12. 1898; Major Quartermaster United States Army, Nov. 1, 1900; Lieutenant
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Colonel, Department of Quartermaster General, Aug. 17, 1903. Address, Head- quarters, Department of the Gulf, At- lanta, Ga.
JONES, Washington?
Consulting mechanical engineer; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 22. 1822; received his education in the common schools; apprenticed to the Southwark Foundry. 183S-1844; studied under private instruc- tors, 1849-1856; chief draughtsman Penn Works, marine engines; until 1861 was Superintendent Port Richmond Iron Works; Assistant Superintendent South- wark Foundry, 1861-1866; General Super- intendent and Constructing Engineer
Port Richmond Iron Works, 1866-1891; Director American Dredging Company. Active member of Franklin Institute, American Society Civil Engineers, Amer- ican Institute Mining Engineers, Ameri- can Society Mechanical Engineers, etc. Address, 1632 North Fifteenth St., Phil- adelphia, Pa.
JONES, William Milo Coulter:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman. dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of deceased Compan- . ion Captain William R. Jones; elected Nov. 12, 1890. Address, South Adams, Riverside, Cal.
JORDAN, David Wilson:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of deceased Compay- ion Brevet Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Jordan; Elected Feb. 5. 1902. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JORDAN, John Woolf:
Author, librarian, editor; born in Phil- adelphia, Sept. 14, 1840, was graduated from Nazareth Hall School in 1856, and received degree of LL. D. from Lafay- ette College, 1902. Vice President Col- onial Society of Pennsylvania, and li- brarian Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania; since 1888 editor of Penn- sylvania Magazine of History and Biog- raphy; of Registrar Pennsylvania Society Sons Revolution. Author of "A Red Rose from the Olden Time." 1752-1772: "Friendsthal and Its Stockaded Mill." 1749-1767; "Narrative of John Heckewel- der's Journey to the Wabash in 1792"; "Bethlehem During the Revolution": "The Military Hospitals at Bethlehem
and Lititz During the Revolution"; Bish- op Spangenbarg's Notes of Travel to Onondaga in 1745"; "Notes of Travel of John Heckewelder to Ohio, 1797;" "Frank- lin as a Genealogist," etc. Address, 1300 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JOST, J. Frederick W .:
Chemical engineer; born in New Jer- sey, Oct. 2, 1871; son of J. F. W. Jost, Jr., and Frances Gordon Jost of New York city; he studied engineering at Cor- nell University, and chemistry at the University of Berlin, Germany. Married. Nov. 3, 1902, Estelle Capp, daughter of Dr. William Musser Capp and Ida E. Stitt Capp of Philadelphia. Member of the University Club of Philadelphia and the Cornell Club of New York. Address, 1904 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
JUNKIN, Joseph de Forest:
Member of Philadelphia bar; born in Philadelphia, April 16, 1855; is a son of George and Jeanie de Forest Junkin; at- tended school of John W. Faires until 1870; was graduated from University of Pennsylvania, Department of Arts, 1874, B. A., and received degree of M. A., 1877. Admitted to bar in 1877; in active prac- tices in Philadelphia since then, represent- ing large corporate interests in all parts of the United States; on Board of Directors of Real Estate Trust Company of Philadel- phia, Jefferson Medical College and Lafay- ette College and Lawyers' Club. Member of Union League Club of Philadelphia, Art Club, University Club, Lawyers Club, Law Association, Penn Club, Batchelors' Barge Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club, Riverton Gun Club, Sons of the Revolution, St. An- drew's Society, Orpheus Club and Coun- try Club. Address, Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
JUSTICE, Herbert M .:
Composer; President of the H. M. Jus- tice Company of Baltimore and Philadel- phia; born June 30, 1859. in West Phila- delphia; educated at Swarthmore Col- lege and Friends' Central School of Phil- adelphia; also attended Lincoln Grammar School of Philadelphia. On Nov. 15, 1892, married Minnie Estelle Vickers, daugh- ter of George M. Vickers, the poet. Author of "Faithful Yet." "Bright-Eyed Lassie." "Sweetest Blossoms." "A Sleep Song." "The Past Recalled," "True to Thee Ever," "The Song of the Star." "Eyes of Love," "In Solitude," etc. His
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main achievement in the musical line has been the composition of the ro- mantic opera, "The Red Domino," the libretto of which is from the pen of George M. Vickers. Mr. Justice resides at Ardmore, Pa., and is a direct lineal descendant of Philip Syng, for ten years Colonial Treasurer of Philadelphia under William Penn. Address, Ardmore, Pa,
JUSTICE, Jefferson :
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry, April 24, 1861; mustered out, Aug. 5, 1861; private 100th Pennsylvania Infantry, Aug. 28. 1861; First Sergeant, Aug. 31, 1861; discharged for promotion, Jan. 31, 1862; First Lieutenant and Regi- mental Quartermaster 100th Pennsyl- vania Infantry, Feb. 1, 1862; honorably mustered out, Jan. 31, 1865; elected Feb. 10, 1897. Address, 701 Broad Street Sta- tion, Philadelphia, Pa.
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KAISER, Julius Adam:
· Passed Assistant Engineer in the United States Navy; born in and appointed from District of Columbia; Third Assist- ant Engineer (Midshipman). Sept. 8, 1863; Second Assistant Engineer (Mas- ter), July 25, 1866; retired (Master), July S. 1873; Lieutenant (Junior Grade), re- tired list, March 3, 1873; elected Feb. 1, 1884. Council of the Commandery, May 1,
1901-1902; Senior Vice Commander, 1903-1904. Address, 524 Locust Ave., Ger- mantown, Pa.
KALER, Levi B .:
President of the National Bank of Phoenixville. Address, Phoenixville, Ches- ter County, Pa.
KARMANY, Lincoln :
Major' United States Marine Corps: appointed from Pennsylvania; Cadet Mid- shipman. September, 1877; Naval Cadet, August. 1882; Second Lieutenant, July, 1883; First Lieutenant, August, 1859. Promoted to Captain, February, 1898; Iowa, North Atlantic Squadron, 1898; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washing- ton, Oct. 19. 1899; Marine Barracks, Na- val Academy, Oct. 15. 1900: ordered to Brooklyn, Dec. 28, 1901; commissioned
Major, Jan. 11, 1900; Marine Barracks, Olonyapa, P. I., since April 25, 1902. Address, care Navy Department. Wash- ington, D. C.
KARSNER, Charles W., M. D .:
Born at Milton, Del., Feb. 9, 1840; great grandson of John Pettigrew of the Rev- olutionary Navy; grandson of Daniel Karsner, a soldier of the War of 1812; educated in public schools; was gradu- ated from Jefferson and Hahnemann Medical Colleges of Philadelphia. Re- publican in politics; served four terms in Philadelphia City Council; at present one of the Medical Inspectors of Phila- delphia. Captain and Major of the Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard; in naval service during the War of Re- bellion with the North and South Atlan- tic Squadrons; recommended for promo- tion and retention in regular service at close of war, but retired to practice his profession, and is now Commodore com- manding the National Association of Na- val Veterans of the United States. Ad- dress, 1509 Dickinson St., Philadelphia, Pa.
KARSNER, Daniel:
Physician; born in Virginia, June 20. 1842; educated at the West Chester High School, and studied medicine at the Jef- ferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was graduated at the beginning of the Civil War; he at once joined the Fifth Corps Field Hospital as an assist- ant surgeon, and remained in it until the war ended. He then began the practice of medicine in Philadelphia, and prosecuted it with great success till 18;2. When he became so impressed with the merits of homeopathy as a school of practice that he entered the Hahnemann Medical College and went through a course of study, graduating with honor, and abandoning allopathy for that of homeopathy. Since then he has been an ardent disciple of the new school, a member of the staff of Hahnemann Col- lege Hospital and of the Advisory Board of the College; he is also an active mem- ber of the County and State Homeopathic Societies and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. In his private prac- tice he has met with large success. Member of the Art Club, the Country Club, and the Manheim and Philadelphia Cricket Clubs. Address. cor. Tulpehocken and Green Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
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KASSABIAN, Mihran K., M. D .:
Born Aug. 25, 1370 at Cesaria, Cappa- docia, Asia Minor (Turkey); graduated from Argeus high School, an American missionary school, in 1887, and afterward became a teacher in that institution. After working in several cities at photo- graphic art, he took up the study of medicine in October, 1895, at the Medico- Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; re- ceived medical diploma May 21. 1898. He entered the Medical Corps of the United States Army, serving until bon- orably discharged six months later; he then entered upon the practice of his nro- fession, devoting most of his time to medical electricity and teaching electro- therapeutics, and taking charge of X-ray laboratory in the hospital; organizer and chief director of the Roentgen X-Ray Laboratory and Electro-Therapeutic De- partment of the Philadelphia Hospital. He was a delegate to the American Con- gress for Tuberculosis, which inet in New York city, and is now a member of the council of that body. Republican in politics. Address,
1833 Chestnut St., Professional Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
KAST, D. E .:
Educator; born in Cumberland County, Pa., Aug. 21, 1829; is a great-grandson of Hans Georg Kast, who emigrated to this country from Rotterdam, Germany, landing at Philadelphia Sept. 16, 1751; bought a farm in Cumberand County, still in possession of one of his descend- ants, and served his adopted country in the 'Revolution. The subject of the pres- ent sketch was educated in the public schools and private classical schools; be- gan teaching in the public schools in 1849, and has since been constantly en- gaged in educational work. Was a mem- ber of the faculty of one of the first normal schools in Pennsylvania, which held its first session at Newville, in 1857. Married Elizabeth C. Beelman Jan. 2S, 1869. Was Superintendent of Schools of Cumberland County from 1872 to 1878. Was a member of the first faculty of the State Normal School of the Seventh Dis- trict, located at Shippensburg. He was principal of Cumberland Valley Insti- tute, located at Mechanicsburg, from 1882 to 1886. Established in 1895 the Normal and Classical School, now lo- cated at Mechanicsburg, and having col- lege preparatory, normal and academic departments, of which school he is now principal. Address, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
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