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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
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Was elected an assistant teacher in Pottsville Highi School, and entered upon his duties in January, 1872, the late Samuel A. Garrett, Esq., taking the Township School. for the remainder of the term. On July 10, 1872, was elected Principal of the High School to succeed Prof. William H. Haskell, and served until December 31, 1874, when he asked to be released to complete his law studies, and his admission to practice- in the Courts of Schuylkill County followed on August 29, 1875. His assistants in the High School were Arthur J.. Pilgram, Esq., fa graduate of Lafayette, who was laters admitted to the Bar, in August, 18753, and the estimable- wife of Dr. Francis W. Boyer, Qnee Caddie G. Ham- mekinj, both of whom are residents of Pottsville.. Edward E. Swallow succeeded to the Principalship of the- High School. In April, 1875, was elected a member of the School' Board from the Southeast Ward, and served continuously for nearly fourteen years until his removal to another ward in March 1889, was Secretary of the Board of' Directors for more than ten years. Has followed his profession continuously and active- ly in Pottsville, and for thirty years has been the Solicitor for the Girard Estate in Schuylkill and Columbia Counties. The following are two extracts, bearing on the resig- nation of Mr. Kaercher from the Principalship of P. H.. S., taken from the minutes of the School Board: Page 265-25, November, 1874. The resignation of S. H. Kaercher was read, also at communication from the High School students on the subject. Mr. Bickel moved that the resignation of Mr. S. H. Kaercher be accepted. Mr. Thompson moved to- postpone the consideration for two weeks, and that the High School committee confer with Mr. S. H. Kaercher- 12
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