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larozzglf tho Years with Education: dL:i507 d67Qf0'w7L.o Bordentown's educational history has been a brilliant one. Years ago many select private schools, which attracted students from distant states and countries, were located in Bordentown. Allison Academy, the Borden- town Female Academy, and Linden Hall were noted schools of that time. Such people as Bishop Doane, Maria Nutt, Princess Murat, William Hil- ton, and Professor Girault will long be remembered as educators. The public acceptance of free education in Bordentown is accredited to Clara Barton, a conscientious young woman, who was later destined to initiate the American Red Cross. She came to Bordentown in 1851, desirous of educating the children of the town. Bordentown was sorely in need of free education since the majority of the young inhabitants of the town were roaming the streets. Miss Barton convinced the authorities that she was capable of teaching the children, and a small school was built for her. Her first class was composed of six renegrade boys, in a year the attendance had grown to six hundred. At the cost of 34,000 a new school building was erected on Crosswicks Street. This is the present Number One School. Miss Barton's deep sense of social obligation and her influence in behalf of noble living have been princeless to Bordentown. The first high school course was formed through the efforts of Mr. William MacFarland, who received his education in the schools of South jersey. An extremely learned man, Mr. MacFarland passed the State Teachers' Examination, although he had had no college education. He was superintendent of the Bordentown public schools in 1882 and was loved by all his students. At this time the school contained only eight grades. Mr. MacFarland offered to teach students after school, and the children came voluntarily and were willing to learn. As his after-school classes grew, Mr. MacFarland realized the need for a high school and in 1895 a third story, to be used for the high-school grades, was added to the original building. In 1907 the Bordentown High School was approved as a three-year high school. Approval as a four-year high school was granted the follow- ing year. In 1908 Mr. MacFarland died and was succeeded as superinten- dent by Mr. Penhollow who held this position for one and a half years. From 1909 to 1919 Dr. H. Vance Holloway was superintendent. He was born in Selbyville, Sussex County, Delaware. In 1895 he received his A.B. degree and in 1898 his A.M. degree from Washington College in Maryland. A Ph.D. degree was conferred upon him by the University of Pennsylvania in 1914. In 1952 from Washington College he received his LL.D. degree. During his administration in Bordentown, a three-room wing was added to the school structure, and a small building was moved to the grounds in 1915 for use as a kindergarten. Miss Georgie W. Foster, a native of Bordentown, was a pillar in the local school system from the time of her entry as a pupil. After completing her course at Bordentown, Miss Foster entered the New Jersey State Nor- l5l
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