PERRY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
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DUANE ACADEMY
aka- Strain's School

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The following information was extracted from the book, History of Perry County Pennsylvania; H. H. Hain; Hain-Moore Co.; Harrisburg, Pa.; 1922.  Chapter XVIII.

During the summer of 1856 Rev. John B. Strain opened an academy, known as Duane Academy, in the dwelling of Mr. Jacob Super, near St. Samuel's Lutheran Church, in Juniata Township.  It was later conducted in the schoolhouse which stood on the ground now occupied by St. Samuel's Church.  Rev. Strain had as his assistant his sister, Miss Hannah Strain.  Dr. C. W. Super, later president of the Ohio University, now of Athens, Ohio, attended this school for a term.  Another student was the late Prof. W. C. Shuman, long principal of the Chicago Evening Schools, and a teacher in the Cook County Normal School.  


 

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