It was 25 by 40 feet in size. There was an enrollment of 55 Mexican boys. Brichta, after the school closed, became a hotel clerk, assistant postmaster, enrolling clerk again in the 7th and 8th Territorial Legislatures, clerk in the commissary department, County Recorder, Constable and first Justice of the Peace in Nogales. In 1872, he married Maria Franco of Sonora, Mexico, whose three sons he adopted. He spent his later years in mining ventures in the Tucson Mountains and in acquiring real estate in Tucson.
Descendants still reside in Tucson.
Congress St. School - pt.