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Andrew k . Bgerlii. « NDRKW K. BYKRI.Y was born in North Huntingdon township. Westmoreland county. lJa.. on July 6th. 1833. His father was a farmer of (Scrnian descent, and his mother. whose grandfather. James Power, was the first ordained minister west of the Alleghenies. was of Scotch-Irish ancestry Mr Byerly thus unites in his own person two races which have made Pennsylvania history. His early life was spent at home. He began teaching in April. 1850. in the home district, where he remained for six years, afterwards teaching a term in an adjoining district. He then attended the Preshytcrial Academy for one term and Jefferson College for another, after which, in April. 1857. the now known and honored Doctor, then a youth of twenty-four, came to the Normal School, with which most of his later life has been connected. Graduating as a member of the first Senior Class in 1 58. Mr. Byerly lxrgan his career as a teacher in the School in the fall of that same year. This | ositioii he has filled with increasing honor and dignity ever since, save during the time when civil war threatened to rend the land asunder. Then Dr. Byerly, in common with many others, came to the aid of his country. He was mustered into the service of the United States as captain of Company K, 122d Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served nine months. Upon his discharge, on May 20th. 1862. Capt. Byerly married and was at once re-elected to his former position as a teacher in the Normal School, beginning work in the fall of 1863. Since then his work here has been uninterrupted. • S •
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Ur. Byerly has tatight a part of each year for fifty years, and has lectured for twelve years before the Lancaster County Teachers’ Institute on the subject of Grammar, occasionally lecturing before institutes of adjoining counties. The Doctor is known and honored elsewhere, as well as at the First State Normal School. This is shown by the fact that the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Jefferson College, and that of Doctor of Philosophy by Lafayette College. He is a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster, Pa., and, though not a regularly ordained minister of the gospel, he preaches occasionally in the pulpits of Millersville and elsewhere. The students who hear him all testify to the earnestness of the message which comes from I)r. Byerly’s lips. His desire is to teach yet another ten years in his loved alma maUr. His life - quiet, earnest, faithful—is a constant example and incentive to earnest, faithful work ; and his ” well done” is praise that every student in the great school appreciates. May he long remain in the halls which owe much to his earnest Christian life and character. i
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