Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

 - Class of 1911

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»4 TOUCHSTONE death, with the exception of nine months' service in the Union Army as a captain of a company in the I22d Regiment, I . V. He served in various departments and taught Mathematics. Astronomy, a full college course in Latin and Greek, German and English Grammar. Etymology and the Bible. Dr. Byerly was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, of Lancaster. He became a member of the Long Run Presbyterian Church, near his early home, about i860; into this church he had been received by baptism in childhood. He was quite regular in church attendance and walked to and from church in Lancaster nearly every Sabbath before there was any mode of conveyance on that day. He took turns with Professors Wickersham, Brooks and Hull in Sabbath lectures at the Normal. Dr. Ityerly was an exemplary Christian and. as such, exerted ; wholesome and helpful influence u]x n those with whom he came in touch. He wrote many lectures and addresses, which he delivered, and also the memoirs of John V. Montgomery and of Ja r.es P. Wickersham. His wife was Annie Eliza Hershey. Tlu ir union was blessed with eight children, of whom four survive: May M.; Dr. Paul R., a dentist in Lancaster; Robert C. a student in theology at Princeton, and Ethel, teaching at Manhattan. Kan. Dr. P.yerly died January 7. 1911, having reached the age of 77 years. 6 months and 1 day. To persons who have never been connected with this school Dr. P.yerly will possibly be known only as an instructor in Latin, but to those of us who have come under his influence, who have sat under his instruction. who have been in his classes, both during the week and on Sunday morning in Bible class, and who have met with him in our Sunday evening prayer meeting and other services of a religious nature he will be more than an instructor. The time may j ossiblv come when we shall have forgotten all the Latin we ever learned here, but there are lessons which have l een taught and lived bv our departed teacher which will never be forgotten—his two precepts. “Honor bright and thorough work ; his patience with the slow pupil: his devotion to his work; his active interest in our religious services: his loyalty to the cause of Christ—these are qualities

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TOUCHSTONE 3 Andrew Robertson Byerly Andkkw Rohkktson Byeri.y. the subject of this sketch, was Ijorn July ( , 1833. xn North I luntingdon Township, Westmoreland C ounty, Pa. He was a son of Adam Byerly. Ilis grandfather. Rev. James Rowers, who was a Presbyterian minister, is said to have been the tirst ordained minister west of the Alleghenies. Most of the early part of Dr. Byerly s life was spent on his father's farm. He attended the conrron schools during the winter until his seventeenth year. Before coming to Millersville he also spent one session at Merrittstown Presbyterian Academy and one at Jefferson College. at Canonsburg. He entered the Lancaster County Normal School in April. 1857. and was assigned to the Junior year of the Scientific C ourse. He attended the full session of twenty-two weeks. There was no graduating class in 1857. but what was called a commencement was held and Dr. Byerly was chosen as valedictorian. He returned for the Senior year and completed the course, being one of the lir-t graduates of the Lancaster County Normal School. His collegiate work was done at W ashington and Jefferson College, where he received his degree. 1 .afavette College conferred uj on hi n the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He began his work as a teacher in a subscription school, which he himself conducted, in the spring of 1850. The next fall he took up the work in his home school and taught here for six successive terms. In the seventh year he took a neighlmring school of a longer term. He never finished this term, coming to Millersville to attend what was then the Lancaster County Normal School. Upon graduating in the Scientific Course, he was retained as a teacher bv Prof. Wickcrshatn. The school was afterwards changed to a State Normal School and Dr. Byerly continued as an instructor at this institution up to a short time before his



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TOUCHSTONE which gave him the well-deserved title of “the grand old man” of the institution and which furnish us with lessons to be learned and practiced and never to be forgotten. For God. for home, for native land”—how applicable to him is this quotation! I)r. Lyte has said of him: “All through his life, and I knew him well, in his daily tasks, in the performance of his school duties, in his everyday relations with those about him. as in his religious life, in church and in his Bible class, the one question that seemed to be asked by him was. Is it right? If the answer was an affirmative one. he knew his duty, and he did it. His work is ended, and when all human records of it have sunk into oblivion the imperishable record carved into the immortal lives of his students will 'till be bright.

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