Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-12-18
DELAWARE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Annual Meeting aud Election OF oaicer
Inst ExeninO


Inst Evening.
The Historical Society Of Delaware
held its annual meeting Monday evening"
and elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: President Hon.
Charles b. Lore; Vice Presidents, Rt.
Rev Leighton Coleman, New Castle
county: Manlove Hayes, Ke:t; Hon.
Ebe w. Tunnel, Sussex; Recording
Secretary, Willard Hall Porter; Cor
responding Secretary, John B. Bird I;
Treasurer, Wilmer j. Ellison; Lii
brarian, Henry q. Conrad; Historic
gTapher, Pennnck Pusey: Directors,
DIR. John P. Wales, William A. La
Motto, II IN. Ignatius @. Grubb, Caleb
p. johnson and John NJ. Rogers.
John M. Rolers presented a psper
on tie old Eight Square schoolhouse
about hRif o mile west of Perry's
Tavern. lie said il would require an
act Of the Delaware Legislature to
cede it to the Historical Society. The
roof and walls are good, but the floor,
doors and windows are all gone. A
builder estimates that they can be
replaced for Sl50 The.struoture is typi-
cal Of the scnoolhouses built in the
colonial days, which were modelled
somewhat after the pattern of guard
house. The ootagonnl shape was an at
tempt to make them circular, the
better to prevent an enemy stealing in
upon them. Pennock Pusey, the his
Photographer Of the society, once at.
| tended meetings in an eight-square
school at Sixth and King streets, where
| tho city offices now stand. w. }.
| Ellison, the treasurer, and John Biggs,
attended an oight-squnre school five
miles north bf Middletown, near Bethel.
Howard Pyle says the eigbt-square
school still appears quite frequently in
Delaware county, Pa. Mr.. Rogers dis
| played a photograph Of Pleasant Hill
| Academy near Cowgill's Corner, Kent
county, which is still used. History
Gays that the Custis children went to
All eight-square school at Mt. Vernon.
On motion the paper was referred to
the committee on publication ard Mr..
Rogers as continued as the committee
on the subject.
Bishop Coleman suggested that the
historiographer secure history of the
pait Delaware took in the Spanish
War. Mr. Pusey, the hIstoriographer,
asked to be excused. Pm a Quaker, %
he said, land warliAe lines are not in
my line. . 1t was suggested that Com
mander II. f. Harrington, who is in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, be asked "a
write and read a paper on the part
Delaware took in tho war. Bishop
Coleman mentioned the death OF
Lieutenant Clarke Churchman in the
war Perhap9 a portrait OF the lieu
tenant will be secured for the society.
After tho donations of journal OF
the voyage in 1S4l-2-3-4 of the whaling.
boat Lucy Ann had been received,
through Albert G. Thatcher, Pennucls
Pusey remarked that he remembered
the Lucy Ann, and was one Of 100 boys
who were determined to be sailors
under any circumstances. The main
building of the Pusey a. Jones Co. was
the old whaling oompany's warehouse.
and whom the whaling industry came
to an end, Messrs. Pusey and Jone:
started their works in tho building.
At first they used only one-fourth of il
and rented out the other three fourths.
Mr.. Pusey said that George w.
Dorsey Of Nineteenth and Market
streets, was the only living person ht
knew of who had been connected will
the whaling industry.
Seth II. Feaster and Charles NJ
Curtis were elected members. Starting
II. Thomas was proposed for member
ship.
Permission was given the Daughters
OF the War of 1872 to hold their meet
ings in the building.