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| HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. | 429 | ||
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Noakes, Rose H. O'Connell, Edith E. Owens, Herbert R. Replogle, Emma S. Sheeler, Tillie M. Smith, Conrad T. Suppes, Elizabeth Swank, Clara B. Thomas and Bess W. Wakefield. 39. 1907. Edna Louise Bauers, Jane Kern Barnett, Todd Dresser Cochran, Lucy Florence Cohoe, Emma Irene Confer, Mable Robinson Davis, Veronica Courtney Day, Eben Louis Edwards, Emil Henry Frank, Walter Homer Friedline, Royal L. Harshberger, Frank Daniel Hoerle, Helen Perry James, Daniel Jones, Fritz W. Krebs, Shelby Lee Kring, Harriett Gertrude Lake, Cora Estrella Lane, Lillie Leibold, Roy L. Leventry, John Vernon Lindsey, Helen Dill Lowman, Myrtle Esther Ludwick, John A. Luker, Carl Henry Mattern, Eva Richar's Morris, Lewis Rees Owen, Meta Paul, Thomas Fenn Pinder, Isabel Brachbill Price, Samuel Rabinowitz, David Griffith Rees, Louise Aldisa Rhine, Lydia Marion Richards, D. Geraldine Rodgers, Susan Bingham Rodgers, Owen Webster Saylor, Mary Katherine Schubert, Florence May Sloan, Douglass D. Storey, Gwen Marie Stroup, Newton Daniel Swank, Mary Elizabeth Vinton, Chalmer Monroe Wisegarver, Francis Wolle, Edna Alberta Yost. 46. THE JOHNSTOWN LITERARY ASSOCIATION
On April 8, 1850, about twenty young men met in the obscure schoolhouse, which is stated as “standing on the banks of the Little Conemaugh river, at the east end of the Walnut street bridge,” to organize this association. Among the founders were James M. Swank, John P. Linton, A. J. Hite and Emanuel J. Pershing. The Association used this room with its old broken benches for about four months, when it made efforts to get the modern school building then standing on Water street in Kernville. At that time this school was in the control of the directors of Conemaugh township, who would not agree that the town boys should have it. So in August of that year the headquarters of the Association were moved to the little brick schoolhouse on the “schoolhouse green,” which was the northwest corner of Carr and Market streets. The Association was prosperous, and many exciting discussions were held in the “little brick.” In October of that same year it again moved to the “Island Hall,” which had been formerly used by the Odd Fellows, and was now independent of the school directors and controlled its own rooms, and as one member stated it, “emulation was our effort to improve and adorn it.” The book-case was filled with good books, suitable furniture was placed there and the floor carpeted. But in April, 1851, the Association located itself on the
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