Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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SAMUEL H. KAERCHER

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Samuel Huntzinger Kaercher Born more than three score years ago in Orwigsburg, then the County seat of Schuylkill. Attended the private school of Miss Annette Strauch, held in the basement of the English Church, Pottsville, and thereafter the public schools on Bunker Hill, taught by the late Rachel Dewald and Joseph J. Jackson, re- spectively. Before his class graduated from the Pottsville High School he left town, and in his fourteenth year, from May to November, 1864, was employed as a slate picker and driver at the new Shenandoah Colliery, tnow Packer No. 33, on the Girard Estate, opened by his father at Lost Creek, Penna. Returning to Pottsville in the winter of 1864, was enrolled as a student in the Paschall Institute, conducted by John A. M. Passmore, a preparatory school for admis- sion to Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. Graduated, from this school, in June, 1870, with the degree of B. A. and in 1873 received the degree of Master of Arts. One year after tutored, in Mathematics and Languages, in Wyer's Academy for young men, in West Chester, Pa. ln the summer of 1871, began the study of Law in the ofiice of George Ringgold Kaercher, Esq., and during the months of November and December, 1871, taught a public school, near Zehner's Mill, in West Penn Township, Schuylkill County. T ll