AREA HISTORY:  Schools, Manchester Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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SCHOOLS – Page 617

The present schoolhouse was built before the town was incorporated.  In 1870 the 
borough board organized by electing John Kohler, president; Peter M. Altland, 
secretary, and Jacob Hartman, treasurer.  Jacob Smith was appointed teacher of 
the secondary school at a salary of $35, and Miss Mary Free teacher of primary 
school at a salary of $33 per month.

The school board for the year 1884-85 was as follows:  Dr. J. C. May, president; 
D. A. Schriver, secretary; Dr. H. V. Gress, Michael Gross, Michael Kunkel and 
Dewease Warner.  The teachers were A. S. Quickel and A. C. Hartman.

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AN OLD SCHOOL HOUSE

The north end of the building, for nearly half a century, was occupied as a 
schoolhouse, in which the youths of the vicinity received the rudiments of their 
education.  Many old people, now living, have a tender recollection of James 
Cabot, familiarly called “Jimmy Caboot,” who, after having seen much of the 
“round world,” as an English sailor, for many year taught school.  He was a 
jolly, good-natured personage, who fondled and petted the little folks, even 
carrying them on his back to and from school.  He was at home anywhere and 
everywhere, and had but one fault – in his own language, he would sometime get 
“cornered,” and that, too, on Sunday, so that his Monday’s work was not well 
done.  He could play the violin for a midnight party, or assist in a religious 
meeting, just as the notion suited him.  One summer day, while engaged in 
religious devotion, a hornet stung him.  This scientific experiment of one 
little insect was sufficient to disturb and break up the entire meeting, and 
caused Jimmy to be more impetuous than reverential.  For many years the children 
of the neighborhood, both winter and summer, attended Jimmy’s school, until one 
peaceful day in June, more than half a century ago, they laid him peacefully to 
rest in the burying ground adjoining the Union Church, in Liverpool.  He was one 
of the first to be there interred.  The old burying ground was near the 
Mennonite Meeting House.  Asa Johnson and John Anstine taught in the same 
building.