A History of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa The school continued to meet in the hall, which was at that time on the southern out skirts of the city, for about three years, and then was removed to a public room opposite. Shortly after, it was again removed to the sec2 ond floor of a fire hose-house, occupied by the Native American Hose Company, on the south side of Carpenter street, below Tenth The neighborhood was a most unpleasant one, as men and boys frequently congregated Con the open lots and fought along the streets. In 1847, Mr. Maurice A. Wurts was elected to the superintendency, several persons having filled that position subsequent to the resigna tion of Dr. Happer. Mr. Wurts conducted the school with signal ability for eleven years, and was quite as strong a factor in its success as Mr. Morris and Mr. Ogden afterwards be came. It numbered less than sixty scholars when he became the leader, and the room in which it met was not only cheerless, but almost destitute of furniture - unless plain board benches could be so called. He succeeded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.