Spangler and Lower Yoder, eight months, and all others were seven months terms, the average term being 7.81 months. During that period, the average salaries were: Adams, $44; Allegheny township, $35; Barnesboro, $54; Carroll, $39; East Conemaugh, $64; Ebensburg, $69; Gallitzin, $60; Hastings, $65; Reade, $46; Johnstown, $76; Patton, $75; South Fork, $78; Westmont, $70; Lower Yoder township, $41. The average paid to men in the county was $54.12, and to women, $41.61. The aggregate amount expended was $427,801.72, of which $168,802.75 was disbursed in the city of Johnstown.
The first Teachers' Institute in the county was organized in Johnstown February, 1856, another meeting held the following October. Being a permanent organization, its sessions were usually convened in Johnstown, Jefferson, now Wilmore, and Ebensburg. On November 12, 1857, it met in Seminary Hall, a building in the rear of the Presbyterian church, at which time the officers and members were: President, Abraham Kopelin; Vice-President, Henry Ely; Recording Secretary, John P. Linton; Corresponding Secretary, S. B. McCormick, and Treasurer, A. L. Guss. Among the members were: Jacob A. Stutsman, John F. Barnes, T.L. Keesey, Samuel Harshberger, James Gray, Jospeh J. Stutsman, Elias K. Wasser, James D. McConnell, John H. Fisher, Joe H. Gadd, William L. Shryock, George S. King, Jr., George W. Stutsman, G. W. Miles Rigor, Joseph Holsopple, General James Potts, A.H. Sembower, J. Evans Myers, Emanuel Shaffer, A.S. Prosser, Emma Gadd, Maria A. Nesbit, Elizabeth Nesbit, Mary A. Burk, Mary M. Sheperd, John T. Cooney, Thomas Vickroy, Edward S. Mechesney, William B. Mechesney, J.R. Weaver, J.A. Kirkpatrick, Eliza Minnick, Margaret Levergood, who became the wife of Thomas E. Watt; Amelia Boggs, whose husband was George F. Randolph; Jennie Long, and Mary M. Swank, who became Mrs. William Turner.
On this occasion William R. Hughes, William H. Gardner and William Palmer of Jefferson were elected honorary members. The Institute adjourned to meet at Jefferson (now Wilmore), on the second Thursday of February, 1857. These institutes have continued annually, the fortieth being held in Ebensburg, in November, 1906. The city of Johnstown has been separated from the county institute since 1900.
The first institution of learning in Johnstown was a little log house about 18 by 20 feet, built in 1805 on the lot at the northeast corner of Vine street and Park Place, by the Rev. John
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