OBIT: A. L. GUSS, 1887, formerly of Huntingdon County, PA

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Death of Prof. A. L. Guss.

  News was received in this city on Monday morning announcing the death 
of Prof. A. L. Guss, at Wakefield, Nebraska, on the 8th inst., of 
pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks, aged about 60 years. 
  The first appearance of Prof. Guss in this county was in 1865, when 
he purchased the Cassville Seminary buildings and opened the Soldiers' 
Orphan School, which he continued to conduct for a period of eight and 
a half years, when the institution was closed and the scholars 
transferred to schools of a similar kind in other sections of the 
State.  While in charge of the school he purchased the Globe office 
from our old friend and preceptor, William Lewis, and on the 1st of 
January, 1873, took possession of his purchase, and during the five 
years and a half that he owned and edited the paper it was filled with 
bitter denunciation of those whom he considered his personal and 
political enemies.  He sold the paper to Al. Tyhurst and shortly after 
his retirement was appointed clerk in the U.S. Treasury Department at 
Washington, whither he removed with the family, and has resided there 
ever since.
  His remains passed through this city on Monday afternoon en route to 
Washington where the interment took place.  Let us hope that after 
life's fitful fever he sleeps well.

The Huntingdon Journal, Huntingdon, Pa., Friday, December 16, 1887

The 1870 census of Cassville Borough, which lists the Soldier's Orphan 
School, starts on page 542a, on this page -
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/huntingdon/census/1870/p538b.txt