BIO: Beverly Roberts WAUGH, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 248.
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  WAUGH, BEVERLY ROBERTS, the son of Rt. Rev. Beverly Waugh, bishop of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife Catharine Bushby, was born 
July 28, 1824, at Liberty, Md.  His grandfather, James Waugh, was an 
officer in the Pennsylvania Line of the Revolution, who settled in 
Virginia at the close of the struggle for independence.  Beverly 
received a thorough English and classical education and entered 
Dickinson College, where he graduated.  His alma mater subsequently 
conferred upon him the degree of A.M.  Mr. Waugh was licensed to preach 
by the Baltimore Conference, but accepted the position of professor of 
mathematics and English literature in the Baltimore Female College, an 
institution then in the full tide of success.  In 1853 the trustees of 
the Pennsylvania Female College at Harrisburg secured him as principal 
of that institution, in which position he labored faithfully and 
successfully to the day of his death.  It was not alone in the capacity 
of teacher that Mr. Waugh devoted his energies and talents, but his 
labors were varied, incessant, faithful, in season and out of season, 
for the good of humanity.  His devoted Christian life-work ended on 
March 24, 1861, in his thirty-seventh year.  Mr. Waugh married Sarah 
Shrom Beatty, eldest daughter of George Beatty and his wife Catharine 
Shrom, who with one child, Eliza B., married to Charles A. Kunkel, of 
Harrisburg, survive.