The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-04

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was so ll0nored, although Rev William
| Armstrong was elected soon after
In 1871 Nr. John ". Scot, OF Ken
lucky, who later became president o.
Washington and Jefferson College, was
appointed principal Of the school.
lie wrote an address 10 the public,
! which was ordered publ he'd In the
| Wheeling Times and Argus,
| After thirty-tw0 years OF service as
secretary OF the board, William Chap
line resigned that position and James
Paul was elected to I'll the vacancy.
The official seal of the academy was
procured In 1913 and Is the one with
which the Llnsly boys have their dlplo-
mas sealed to this day, II reads: Ian
castrlan Academy, Wheeling, va" and
| this by the way Is the proper name OF
the Institution. Not once does the name
Llnsly Institute occur an the records,
nor does any authority seem To have
been given to make the change. which
| probably took place gradually during a
| period when the Lancastrlan plan OF
instruction gave way TO more modern
| methods.
During the year 1913 occurred the
death of John List and The election OF
| Chester D. Hubbard. Soon after the
first public examination was held and
| a committee appointed to attend the
same.
Several years later lot was pur-
| chased In Mt. Wood cemetery and the
remains Of Noah Linsfy deposited there,
a monument being placed over the
grave about six years later
In 1852 committee was appointed to
report ways and means for the erection
Of a new building and at the same
meeting vote of thanks was rendered
Jacob S, Shrlm, esq, for valuable
| cabinet OF minerals presented by him
| TO the academy,
Things are now beginning to look a
little more modern. Names OF people
living to-day are appearing; the cree
ton OF the building In which the school
is al present held Is being discussed; the
minerals presented by Mr. Shrim are
stll to be seen at the institute, and
Messrs, Harvey and Orr have been
elected principals, the former reslgning
two years later, but the latter, Professor
j. c. Orr, serving at different times I'M
I'll nine years ago.
In 1865 the lots on Fifth and Centre
streets (Eoff and Efficiently were pur-
chased for the use OF the academy and
q building not to exceed $1,000 in cost,
ordered arranged for. II was in the
| same year that John McI4ure, who had
served rs president OF the board for
thirteen years, resigned both his office
| and his membership Zachariah Jacob
! being elected 10 theformerand Rev. j. T..
| Mcclure to the latter, In 1852 James
| Paul became principal OF the academy
and the new building went into use In
! September OF that year
In 1862, Rev. II. V, Dodge was elected
principal and the following year, the
year In which our little Mountain State
was admitted TO the Union. the legisla-
ture of West Virginia took possession of
the building as q state house at rent
al OF $1,000 per annum, the sessions of
the school being held for while In the
Odd Fellows building. In 1864, ]. f.
| Jones. esq. became principal and Dam
| lei Lamb was elected n trustee in place
Of Joseph Caldwell. deceased. Upon
| the death OF Hachnrlah Jacob, Dr. j. T,
Mcclure, In 1870, became president Of
the bolrd OF trustees, which position
he held until 1888. when Hon. a. w.
Campbell, the present Incumbent, who
| has been q member OF the board since
| 1870. was elected. Other trustees elect
ed Ia 1870 were Benjamin Stanton, Rob
ert Crangle, Henry r. List, Andrew j..
Sweeney and N Wilkinson, and In
1873 j ~ Vance and Thomas II. Lo-
gar. II was In this year that James
Paul, who had served the board os
secretary resigned both his office and
his membership,
In 1876. Professor John ~ Birch, who
had short time before been graduated
| from WashlngtOn-J Jefferson College. be-
came principal OF tho institute. A year
later he associated with him DR.. John
l.. Dlckey, who subsequently became a
member Of the board and Is now Its sec
Rotary. and to whom the writer Is In
iebtcd FOR the use Of the records from
which he hns gathered the material for
this article.
In 1877 the board OF education OF the
city Of Wheeling applied for the free
usr of die third story Of the school
building for the purposes OF a high
school. but the privilege was not grant
Cd.
william II. Simpson, Augustus Pollock
aud John j. Jones we're elected trustees
In 1881, In which year, also, Professor
Birch resigned the prinslpaiship to be-
come superintendent OF public schools,
| Nj Alexander r. WHITEHALL succeeding
him, assoclating with him Mr., II, O..
| Daizeii who had bccn a member OF the
| faculty during the last year of Profess
Bor Birch's connection with the school,
In 1885 another attempt was made TO
| secure the school building for high
grammar school, but the trustees re-
solved that they did not feel Mt liberty
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