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Norristown Academy was a
private
preparatory
academy established in 1805 in
Norristown, Pennsylvania.
[1]
[2]
[3] Many prominent people have been educated there, including Major General
Winfield Scott Hancock,
[1] Governor
David Rittenhouse Porter,
[2]
James Madison Porter,
[4] and
Samuel Medary.
[5] It was torn down in 1829.
[3]
References
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a
b Junkin, David Xavier; Norton, Frank Henry (1880).
The life of Winfield Scott Hancock: personal, military, and political. New York: D. Appleton and Co. p.
9. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^
a
b
"October 31 marks 150th anniversary of birth of D. R. Porter, first Governor of Pennsylvania". Altoona Tribune. Altoona, Pa. 8 October 1938.
LCCN
87080066.
OCLC
15348854 – via
Newspapers.com.
- ^
a
b Huskey, Stan (2009).
Remembering Norristown: Stories from the Banks of the Schuylkill River. Charleston: History Press. pp. 55–56.
ISBN
9781596297234.
OCLC
427439580. Retrieved 9 November 2014 – via
Google Books.
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^
"Biographical Sketches" (PDF).
Lafayette College Library. n.d. p. 1. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
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^ Dorn, Helen P. (1944).
"Samuel Medary, Journalist and Politician, 1801-1864".
Ohio History Journal. 53/January–March 1944/Number 1: 14–38.
ISSN
0030-0934.
OCLC
138597892. Retrieved 9 November 2014.