The old high school

The old Mount Union High School. Generations of Trojans passed through these doors before consolidation.

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Passages about this subject, quoted from county histories now in the public domain. Each one names the book and the position in the text so it can be checked. Spelling is as printed.

Glock, of whom this brief sketch is written, was born on the 1st day of April, 1807, in the village of Hoeneck, Wiirtemberg, Germany. His ancestors had lived there for many generations, and had been farmers and coopers by occupation, and in their religious belief Lutherans. His father, Jacob Philip Glock, married Miss Catherine Aininger, whose parents and ancestors as far back as can be traced had lived in the same village and had belonged to the same church. They had twelve children, of whom four sons and two daughters only grew to man's and woman'sestate. John Glock grew up in his native village, receiving a common-school education, and when old enough learned to work on the farm and at the cooper's trade. In 1832 his brother Frederick, who was working at his trade (a blacksmith) in Frànce, wrote John a letter, saying that a party of young men were about to go to America, and tbat he would go if he (John) would go also. To this he at once replied in the affirmative, and Frederick came home, and they went to Amsterdam, and with only enough money to pay their fare and with all their worldly possessions in their knapsacks, they embarked on the sailing-ship " Unskanogen" for the New World beyond the sea. After a long and pleasant trip of sixty-six days they landed in Baltimore, Md.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,266,351 of the scanned text

Since his death, in the spring of 1881, the clerk has been Alfred Porter. The former was elected superintendent of a Sabbath-school at Alexandria in 1825, and served continuously as superintendent of the school through three generations of children, in all that long period being prompt, unobtrusive, and an exemplary man throughout. He filled the position until within a few Sabbaths of his death. In February, 1851, the present church edifice, a large and substantial building, was consecrated by the Rev. It cost with its surroundings more than six thousand dollars. The " White Meeting-House" was torn down about that time, and part of the material used in the furnishing of the lecture-room of the present church. Trustees in 1881, Livingston Robb, Hugh Cunningham, William A. Whittaker, Henry Swoope, Sterrett Livingston, John N. Christ's Reformed Church of Alexandria., At Water Street, in Morris township, a Union meeting- house was built about 1817 by the German Reformed and Lutheran congregations of that part of the county, which was dedicated during the pastorate of the Rev. John Deitrick Aurandt, in which the members of the Reformed Church in Porter worshiped until some twenty-five years later, when the above church was established at Alexandria.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,775,506 of the scanned text

For a period of forty-three years, or from 1840 to the present, Judge Clarkson has been an undertaker, and in many Huntingdon County families has buried representatives of two generations, while in the aggregate he has buried as many, if not more persons than any man in the county. In 1842 he procured his first hearse, which, it is claimed, was the first hearse used in the county. In 1840 he was elected school director, and for eighteen years was secretary of the board. Heis now secretary of the borough school board. In 1850 he was elected justice of the peace, and for three consecutive terms was re-elected. While serving in his fourth term was, in the fall of 1866, elected as one of the associate judges-of Huntingdon County. In 1871 he was re-elected to that office, serving all told a period of ten years, and retiring from the bench to private life after honorable and esteemed public service. In 1878 he was again chosen justice of the peace, and is still in that office. Calvin (the well-known " Jason" of Huntingdon County journalism), Samantha A. Crane, of Altoona), Benjamin F.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,591,010 of the scanned text

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