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ITS ORIGIN AND TOWN LIMITS
TOWN LIMITS
GROWTH, CHANGE OF NAME, ETC.
MERCANTILE ASPECT
MANUFACTURING
TRADES ETC.
SHIPPING INTERESTS
EASTERN SHORE STEAMBOAT CO.
SHIP BUILDING ETC.
HOTELS, LIVERY STABLES, ETC.
PHYSICIANS
LAWYERS
POST OFFICE
PRINTING OFFICES
SOCIAL ASPECT, ETC.
MORAL ASPECT
TEMPERANCE CAUSE
SCHOOLS
CHURCHES
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SCHOOLS (CONTINUED.)
George S. Bell, Esq., was an assistant in the New Town
High School. He was born in Northampton County,
Va. He was educated at Snow Hill and Pocomoke City,
Md., at Newark College, Del., and at the Theological
Seminary, Princeton, N. J. He was licensed to preach
the gospel by the New Castle Presbytery about the year
1875. He supplied a pulpit in the State of New York
and afterward received a call to the Presbyterian Church
in Wrightsville, Penn., which he is now acceptably filling.
Mr. Bell was a close student, had a good mind and has
reflected a credit upon himself in view of his elevation.
Miss Eudora E. Hay succeeded John W. Murray as
teacher of the grammar school department in the High
School of Pocomoke City, and continued in that relation
for two years when she retired, and afterward procured
a situation as teacher in the schools of Wilmington, Del.
Ebenezer Hearn was born in New Town, Worcester
County, Md., on the 26th day of November, 1854. He
commenced going to school at 8 years of age. Left
school in July, 1873. Served as an assistant to the princi-
pal of the High School in 1874. Engaged in mercantile
business with E. H. Clarke from 1874 to 1877. In 1877
he received an appointment from the Trustees of
Rehoboth Academy, in Somerset County, as principal
which position he still holds, and that school is recognized
by the school board of Somerset County, as one of the
best schools in the county. Ebenezer Hearn is a young
man in whose favor it would be difficult for me to say
too much. His mental, moral and religious qualities
are of such a character as to entitle him to the highest
praise of all who know him, and to positions of trust
and responsibility.
Richard A. Wilson, an assistant to the principal of the
High School in Pocomoke City, was a native of Cannons-
burg, Penn. He was educated at Jefferson College. He
studied law, graduated and removed to Missouri, where
he is now practicing law.
Miss Fannie Matthews is a native of Accomac County,
Va. Her parents died while she was quite young, and
she was taken in charge by her aunt, Miss Jane Porter,
who is living in the City of Baltimore, and there in the
Western High School she was educated. In 1873, a
vacancy being open in the High School of Pocomoke
City, Miss Fannie was appointed to fill that vacancy, and,
during the seven years of her instructions, which closed
up with 1881, she exhibited such wisdom in the instruc-
tion of her class, as caused it to be said that her place in
the school would be hard to fill. By her adaptation as a
teacher she has gained the highest respect of the trustees
of the High School, and as a lady she is known only to be
esteemed. There is no one upon whom she has made
a more indelible impression in this direction than the
principal of the High School. Indeed she contemplated,
very seriously, too, a change of name, and finally
concluded that she was tired of her old name and would
accept of one that was more handy and she became the
happy bride of Dr. Sidney W. Hardy, principal of the
High School of Pocomoke City.
John S. McMaster was born in New Town, on the 29th
day of December, 1859. He was educated partly at the
High School in Pocomoke City, partly at Newark College,
Del., and is finishing his education at Lafayette College,
Penn., where he will no doubt graduate with honor. Mr.
McMaster is a young man of promise; his aim is the
profession of the law as his life work. He will make his
mark and be an honor to his name and to his native town.
As a teacher in the High School, he acquitted himself
with honor.
William S. Dix is a native of Accomac County, Va., but
his father moving to Somerset County, Md., he was
educated at the Washington Academy, near Princess
Anne, and at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn. At the
time Mr. Dix went to the Washington Academy it was a
school of renown, having for its principal the Rev. Francis
Waters, D.D., a man of celebrity. After he resigned the
Rev. Robert M. Laird, a Presbyterian minister, was
appointed principal in his place, having the Hon. Isaac D.
Jones for an assistant. Mr. Dix engaged as teacher in the
High School of New Town in 1875, and for six consecu-
tive years he continued in that capacity, when at the close
of the school term in 1881, he retired from the school.
Mr. Dix is a man of high moral worth and he has the
respect of all who know him as a Christian gentleman.
Hilary T. Stevenson and Dr. Julius T. Hall were teach-
ers in the New Town High School, but as I have taken
notice of them under another heading, I shall here pass
them by.
The Misses Maggie Webb, Rose Tull, Emma Robinson,
Ella Scott, Rose Marshall and Sallie Henderson were all
good and efficient teachers. The last three named are
still teaching in the High School. In closing up this
account of the High School in Pocomoke City I will state
that there are on the school roll in regular attendance
235 scholars.
I have failed to notice heretofore two of our young men
of promise and consequently will have to notice them here.
Edward J. Clarke, son of Littleton T. Clarke, deceased,
was born in New Town on the first day of September, 1860.
After the death of his father, which event occurred when
he was but six years of age, the Rev. John W. Pierson
being an intimate friend of his father and taking a liking
to the youth, by the consent of his mother, took him into
his own family and under his own guardian care to raise and
educate him. He remained with Mr. Pierson until he was
sixteen years of age, during which time he was schooled
at the Academy in Snow Hill and Pocomoke City High
School. At the age of sixteen he entered St. John's
College, Annapolis, Md., where he remained five years.
At the age of twenty-one he graduated, standing well up
in his class. After this he taught school at Whaleyville,
Worcester County, Md., one year. He is now employed
as teacher in the High School of Pocomoke City. Mr.
Clarke is a young man of promise and with applica-
tion will make his mark.
Austin H. Merrill, son of William H. S. Merrill, was
born in New Town on the first day of June, 1859. He was
a student in the High School of this place until he was
eighteen years of age, at which time he entered the Dela-
ware College at Newark, Del. His education at this
period was sufficient to justify his entering the Sophomore
Class. He graduated with the first honor, taking the
decree of A. I., and chosen valedictorian of his class. He
taught school two years as principal of the Temperance-
ville Graded School. He then entered the National School
of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, Penn., where
he graduated with honor. Mr. Merrill is just entering the
arena of public life, having in contemplation the law as his
life work, and with application on his part and no unfore-
seen event happening to blast the fond hopes of his friends,
he will, it is anticipated, be the peer of the first jurists of
Maryland and of whom his friends and the citizens of
Pocomoke City have just cause to feel proud.
The school for the education of colored children in
Pocomoke City was established directly after the free
school system became a law in the State. This school
has been kept up ever since, and is today a graded school
of primary and grammar school departments. There are
on the school roll 117 scholars. The school is taught by
a principal and one assistant. These teachers are quite
efficient and the school is advancing.
The principal, David W. Ogden, is a native of New
Jersey. He attended a primary and grammar school in
that State until he was sixteen years of age, when he
entered Lincoln University, in Chester County, Penn.
After applying himself closely for five years, he graduated
with honor in 18S0.
The following is the basis upon which the colored
school is sustained. The school receives from the county
the proportion of county taxes paid by the colored people
in the county, which amounts to about eleven cents on the
one hundred dollars. In addition to this the State makes
a special appropriation of $100,000 annually for all the
schools throughout the State, of which Worcester County
receives about $3,600. CONTINUES NEXT SATURDAY HERE AT THE POCOMOKE PUBLIC EYE.
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