Excerpt from The Clarion, Vol. 5: Twenty-Ninth Annual Catalog, Clarion State Normal School, Clarion, Pennsylvania, 13th District Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, McKean and Warren Counties, Catalog 1915-1916, Prospectus 1916-1917

By an act of the Pennsylvania State Legislature, passed in the year 1886, the counties of Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, mckean, and Warren were separated from the Eighth Normal School District and were constituted as the Thirteenth District. The necessary steps were at once taken to organize a Normal School. Contributions and pledges of money, amounting to forty thousand dollars, were Obtained for the purpose Of se curing a suitable Site and erecting the necessary buildings. This amount was supplemented by a legislative appropriation of twenty - five thousand dollars. The grounds and buildings which had belonged to Carrier Seminary were purchased from the Erie Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Additional land adjoining the original purchase was Obtained from the Arnold estate, and in the fall Of 1886, work was begun on the erection of two commodious dormitories. These buildings were completed before the middle of February. A committee repre senting the State Officially approved the provisions thus made for carrying on the work of a Normal School, and the insti tution was formally opened on the twelfth day of April, 1887. The school continued under the joint control of the State and the stockholders until February 9, 1916, when the State pur chased all of the outstanding stock and formally took over the property in the name of the Commonwealth.

The enrollment during the first term was 140. The enroll ment for the year 1887 - 1888, the first full year of the ex istence of the school, was 364. The first graduating class num bered ten young men and two young women. Twenty-three and one-fourth acres of ground containing seven commodious build ings now constitute the Normal School plant. The graduates number 1775.

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