The History of Cayuga County 1789-1879 page 469
Village of Moravia

weeks. In these classes 216 students were instructed, for which $2,080 were received from the Regents. A large number of professional and business men have graduated from its halls and done credit to themselves and their Alma Mater. Prominent among these are Hon. Andrew D. White, of Syracuse, President of Cornell University, and present Minister to Germany, and members of the legal profession in this village, as previously mentioned.

The Institute closed its existence at the end of the summer term of 1868, December 19th of which year, the legal voters of the two school districts in the village, which had a separate existence of twenty-nine years, confronted with the urgent necessity of either erecting new buildings or thoroughly repairing the old ones, voted, at a public meeting held for the purpose, to reunite, thus forming the Moravia Union Free School district as it now exists. It having been voted at a subsequent public meeting to erect the new Union School building on the grounds owned and occupied by the Moravia Institute, and the board of education, elected at a former public meeting, having by a formal vote adopted the Moravia Institute as the academic department of the Moravia Union Free School, in March, 1869, the trustees of the Institute, through their president and secretary, made a legal conveyance of all their school property to the trustees of the Moravia Union Free School.

The new school building was erected in the fall of 1869. It consists of a plain, but substantial brick front, three and a half stories high with the old Institute wooden building thoroughly repaired as a rear addition. There are five large and commodious school rooms, with two recitation rooms, and an excellent hall, used for school exercises and public lectures. The value of the building and grounds, as reported to the Regents in 1877, is $ 14,200. In the academic department are taught the various branches of classical and higher English studies usually pursued in schools of this grade. Students are thoroughly prepared for college. Six annual State teachers' classes, containing an aggregate number of 130 students, have been instructed in this department for a full term of thirteen weeks, and $1,540 received therefor from the Regents.

The increase in the number of students from year to year is seen from the following statement:

								Tuition of
				Residents 	Non-Residents 	Non-Residents

Sept. 30, 1869, 		228 		5 		$20.00
"     30, 1870, 		279 		61 		221.00
"     30, 1871, 		373 		137 		985.00
"     30, 1872, 		333 		85 		726.00
"     30, 1873 			427 		121 		728.00
"     30, 1874 			464 		158 		855.00
"     30, 1875			449 		137 		930.00
"     30, 1876 			481 		131 		743.00
"     30, 1877 			528 		134 		863.00
"     30, 1878 			381 		167 		1059.32

The number of students having become too large for the school accommodation,
a committee was appointed at the last annual school meeting to report a plan
for the enlargement of the building.

There have been expended in the purchase of philosophical and chemical apparatus $876, and in the purchase of a good piano and three school organs, $700, all of which was raised by means of several courses of lectures and school entertainments. Connected with the school is a library containing 612 volumes.

From December 19th, 1868, to April 25th, 1870, the Union School was held in three buildings, the old Institute building and the school houses in the two districts. The principals during that period were Fannie M. English, two terms, from January 4th, 1869, who was assisted a part of the time, in the classical department, by Rev. E. Benedict, who was then pastor of the Congregational Church of the village and Rev. Manson Brokaw, a graduate of the Institute. School was begun in the new building April 25th, 1870, and the principals since then have been, Hosea Curtis, seven terms, and Chas. 0. Roundy, the present one, eighteen terms. The assistants in the academic department have been Grace A. Wood, fifteen terms ; E. Bertha Smith, six terms Fannie M. English, Cyrus A. Wood, three terms Amy R. Frost, Eda E. Ainsley, Rev. Ezra D. Shaw and Sarah Barnes, one term each, and Miss Peck, who taught a part of a term, while Miss Wood was sick. In the other departments the teachers have been Sarah M. Cole, seven terms Mary B. Willie, seven terms ; Euphemia A. Paul, nine terms ; Carrie C. Fries, five terms; F. Adele Roundy, three terms Mrs. C. 0. Roundy, twelve terms ; L. Anna Brownell, five terms Adelle Cuykendall, seventeen terms Stella A. Burlingham, two terms; and Anna B. Waldo, one

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