Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.421

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History of Cambria County, V.2

HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 421

per month, $1.14 ; levy, $8,213.40 ; appropriation, $394.57 ; paid for schoolhouses, etc., $4,269.63 ; for wages, $2,450.
    For 1876-77, schools, twenty-three ; 748 boys and 759 girls ; cost per month, 87 cents ; levy, $13,786.28 ; appropriation, $1,303.64 ; paid for teachers, $8,865.80 ; for other expenses, $6,638.68.
    In 1881, schools, thirty ; boys, 806 ; girls, 889 ; cost per month, 97 cents ; levy, $20,208.30 ; paid for teachers, $10,744.24 ; other expenses, $18,859.01.
    The buildings in Woodvale and Conemaugh were destroyed by the Flood, and the Union School on Market street by a fire a week or so thereafter. September 7, 1889, the board decided to open the schools on the 30th for an indefinite period, and also decided not to levy a school tax for that year, but depend on the insurance money and other available funds to carry the term. The directors provided for twenty-four schools as against thirty-six in 1888. The four buildings used were Union street, Adam. Dibert and Horner streets.
    The teachers lost in that terrible catastrophe were the Misses Mattie McDevitt, Emma K. Fisher, Laura Hamilton, Mary P. White, Jennie M. Wells, Minnie Linton, Maggie Jones, Rose Carroll, Mary Dowling, Kate McAneny and Carrie Richards, of the classical school, and Charles F. Gallagher.
    The first high school in Johnstown was organized by S. B. McCormick in 1868, in the building now occupied as the station for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. It was taught by A. C. Johnson, who had thirty pupils. The course included reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, philosophy, physiology, botany and U. S. history, algebra, geometry, physics, music and civil government. Latin was not a part of the regular course of study but several scholars studied it and recited after school hours ; however, it was included in the course the next year. The high school was removed to the Adam street building in 1880, and the next year to Union street. It was while in this building the three-year course of study was first adopted by T. B. Johnston, and in 1884 it was made a four-year course. J. J. Miller, who is now a judge of the orphans' court in Pittsburg, was the principal, but he soon resigned and was succeeded by John A. Scott of Indiana. The first commencement exercises were those of 1882.
    In 1892 the high school was removed to the Somerset street building, where it remained until 1899, when it was located on

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	421
per month, $1.14 ; levy, $8,213.40 ; appropriation, $394.57 ; paid for schoolhouses, etc., $4,269.63 ; for wages, $2,450. For 1876-77, schools, twenty-three ; 748 boys and 759 girls ; cost per month, 87 cents ; levy, $13,786.28 ; appropriation, $1,303.64 ; paid for teachers, $8,865.80 ; for other expenses, $6,638.68. In 1881, schools, thirty ; boys, 806 ; girls, 889 ; cost per month, 97 cents ; levy, $20,208.30 ; paid for teachers, $10,744.24 ; other expenses, $18,859.01. The buildings in Woodvale and Conemaugh were destroyed by the Flood, and the Union School on Market street by a fire a week or so thereafter. September 7, 1889, the board decided to open the schools on the 30th for an indefinite period, and also decided not to levy a school tax for that year, but depend on the insurance money and other available funds to carry the term. The directors provided for twenty-four schools as against thirty-six in 1888. The four buildings used were Union street, Adam. Dibert and Horner streets. The teachers lost in that terrible catastrophe were the Misses Mattie McDevitt, Emma K. Fisher, Laura Hamilton, Mary P. White, Jennie M. Wells, Minnie Linton, Maggie Jones, Rose Carroll, Mary Dowling, Kate McAneny and Carrie Richards, of the classical school, and Charles F. Gallagher. The first high school in Johnstown was organized by S. B. McCormick in 1868, in the building now occupied as the station for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. It was taught by A. C. Johnson, who had thirty pupils. The course included reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, philosophy, physiology, botany and U. S. history, algebra, geometry, physics, music and civil government. Latin was not a part of the regular course of study but several scholars studied it and recited after school hours ; however, it was included in the course the next year. The high school was removed to the Adam street building in 1880, and the next year to Union street. It was while in this building the three-year course of study was first adopted by T. B. Johnston, and in 1884 it was made a four-year course. J. J. Miller, who is now a judge of the orphans' court in Pittsburg, was the principal, but he soon resigned and was succeeded by John A. Scott of Indiana. The first commencement exercises were those of 1882. In 1892 the high school was removed to the Somerset street building, where it remained until 1899, when it was located on