Widener University - Pioneer Yearbook (Chester, PA)

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Cutline of the History of the College saw-,ge N 1821 John Bullock opened a boarding school at Wilmington, Delaware. This institution soon acquired a wide and favorable reputation, and K 4' continued to flourish under his management for twenty-six years. At his death, in 1847, Samuel Alsop secured control of the school, and conducted it success- fully until 1853, when, desiring to locate elsewhere, he trans- ferred, by sale, the equipment and good will to Theodore Hyatt, then in charge of the Parochial School of the First Presbyterian Church of that city. In the Fall of 1858, military instruction was introduced, and speedily took on so definite a form, that, April 19, 1859, the Governor of the state, Hon. William Burton, ordered the delivery to the institution of certain public arms, which equipment consisted of an outfit of rifles and two six-pounder field pieces. Six days later, April 25, Principal Hyatt was appointed aide-de-camp, with rank of colonel, on the staff of the Governor. This radical change in the constitution of the school opened a new era in its history, and, to make the evolution complete, a characteristic name was adopted, Dela- ware Military Academy. At the opening of the Civil War, increased facilities for the conduct of the academy became necessary, and, accord- ingly, an extensive and valuable school property, then vacant, at West Chester, Pennsylvania, was leased. A charterhwas secured from the Legislature, approved April 8, 1862, by Governor Andrew G. Curtin. The following june, the Board of Trustees organized under the corporate title of Pennsylvania Military Academy, and elected Colonel Hyatt president of the institution. During the summer vacation, the school equipment was transferred to the new quarters, and the first session in Pennsylvania opened September 4, 1862. In December, 1865, another change in location was made necessary by the final disposition of the West Chester prop- erty, in settlement of the Bolmar estate, of which it was a part. Chester, eighteen miles distant, offered superior local ' fffj l 41,5 1. ' - '1 1 T l ll I0

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Oflicers of the Military Department COLONEL CHARLES E. HYATT, C onunandant. LIEUTENANT COLONEL MILO C. BU Treasurer of the College. RT, FIRST LIEUTENANT CARL H. MULLER, Cavalry, U. S. A. United States Military Detail. MILITARY STAFF CAPTAIN LEVI P. WYMAN ........ .... A djutant SAMUEL R. CROTHERS, M.D. ............. . CAPTAIN EDWARD BRAUTIGAM, .Surgeon Tactical Ojticer, Infantry CAPTAIN FRANK K. HYATT ....... Assistant in Cavalry MR. FRANK R. THOMAS .......... Assistant in Infantry MR, SAMUEL W. GREEN . ........... Quartermaster REV. PHILIP H. MOWRY, D.D., I REV. FRANCIS M. TAITT, ..... REV. WILLIAM H. SHAFFER, D.D., . Chaplains Miss MAY DISERT ............. In Charge of Hospital .ii- MR. GEGRGE W. ROATCH, MR. JAMES F. FAULKNER, .....1- MR. I. WILSON STOEVER, MR. ROBERT G. MEAD, . S peeial Aids MR. VERN K. BOYNTON, Cadet Aids. 9

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