MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE ERIE ACADEMY, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 19, 1845 TO DECEMBER 6, 1867

Erie, Pennsylvania, 1867. Folio, 8" x 12-1/4". About [300] manuscript pages. Original three-quarter leather, paper covered boards [some wear and chipping]. Interior with only minor toning and occasional light foxing. Very Good.

The Erie Academy was established in the early 1820s. By 1844, under the stewardship of Reid T. Stewart, the Academy flourished with 207 enrolled students. This book of minutes traces the Academy's activities during a 22-year period, including the Civil War. It contains neatly handwritten entries of the minutes of meetings of the trustees, including subjects such as salaries, tuition, curriculum, enrollment, faculty, improvements, student behavior, etc.
Some persons mentioned, mostly trustees and officers, include: George W. Starr, PA State Representative, lawyer, cofounder of Erie Forge Company, board member Erie Dime Bank, cofounder of Hamot Hospital, board member of State Hospital for the Insane of Warren County; Elijah Babbitt, lawyer; Prosecuting Attorney for the Commonwealth, member of the State House of Representatives and State Senate.
Prof. Andrew H. Caughey, bookseller & stationer; lawyer; principal and professor of Latin at Erie Academy. George A. Elliot, a director at the United States Bank at Erie; Secretary of the local Colonization Society; and first president and an incorporator of Erie Cemetery. Thomas H. Sill, first resident lawyer of Erie, postmaster, burgess for several terms, Deputy U.S. Marshal, and Deputy Attorney General for Warren County.
James Williams, incorporator of Erie Mutual Fire Insurance Company; trustee of the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Erie. Rev. George A. Lyon, distinguished Presbyterian minister. James Lytle, member of the State Legislature; Collector of the Port of Erie. James C. Marshall, lawyer; prothonotary and clerk of several Erie County courts; Revenue Commissioner; president of the Erie County Mutual Ins. Co.; president of the Marine National Bank of Erie.
John A. Tracy, Director of the U.S. Branch Bank of Erie; contractor and director of the Erie & Northeast Railroad; director of the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad Company. John H. Walker, lawyer, politician. Giles Sanford, merchant; delegate to Canal Convention in Harrisburg. C.M. Tibbals, director of Erie City Bank. Robert Cochran, postmaster and local office holder. Alexander W. Brewster, professor and sheriff. Joseph H. Presley, J.H. Spaulding, Matthew R. Barr, O.E. Crouch, & others. [Nelson, S.B.: NELSON'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND HISTORICAL REFERENCE BOOK OF ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. . . 1896.].