AREA HISTORY:  Public Schools, Monaghan 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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PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Page 648

There are five public schools in Monaghan, known as Siddonsburg, Filey’s, 
Freysinger’s, Myers’ and Andersontown Schools.  The buildings are brick.  The 
common school system, under the act of 1834, was accepted in this township in 
the year 1836, and the subscription schools that were in use prior to the 
adoption of free schools, were not very well patronized.  The tenth census 
reports that in this township the number of male inhabitants that can neither 
read nor write is fifteen, not including five males that can read, but cannot 
write; and the number of females in the township that cannot read or write is 
twenty, not including thirty-five who can read, but cannot write.  Nearly all 
are aged people.

The State appropriation for 1884 was $267.  Teachers for 1885:  Miss C. A. 
Filler, John K. Cocklin, Russell Cocklin, Ulysses Myers and William Kimmel.  
School board for 1884:  John Bucher, president; E. H. Cocklin, secretary; James 
Cannon, John Shaffer, John Strayer, Jacob Bigler.