2O0 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



with Father Throop, when with almost his last breath he said : "My 

 journey is almost ended ; and I am ready, if it is my Heavenly Father's 

 will. But what will become of my schools I answered, " You have done 

 your whole duty nobly ; and Pasadena will take care of your school. ' ' 



He had already expended for the Institute a total sum of $97,874. His 

 will gives $20,000 more, or whatever remains of the estate after the death of 

 his wife. 



CLASSICAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS. 



Established in October, 1889. Stephen Cutter Clark, A. B., principal ; 

 Mrs. Grace Miller Clark, A. B. and A. M., Greek and Latin ; Mary Louisa 

 French, A. B., primary; Jean Trebaol, French; Wm. P. Hammond, pen- 

 manship ; Wm. Wallis, drillmaster. Object : To fit and prepare boys for ad- 

 mission to any college or university in the country. The enterprise succeeded 

 from the first. In the spring of 189 1 Mr. Clark erected a building purposely 

 for his school, at No. 59 South Euclid Avenue, with six recitation rooms. 

 The number of pupils averaged about 30, the highest enrollment being 37. 



CLASSICAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. 



Established in 1890, by Anna B. Orton, principal, and instructor in 

 Mathematics and in Greek and Latin ; May A. Morrison, French and His- 

 tory ; Isa Cranston Pirret, English branches ; Mabel L. Merriman, Science ; 

 Fraulein A. Werner, German ; Wm. P. Hammond, penmanship ; Mrs. L. 

 E. Garden-Macleod, drawing and painting, this department being a branch 

 of the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. The music department has 

 Herr Thilo Becker and Susan R. Orton, as instructors on the piano ; and 

 Josef and Johanna Rubo, teachers of voice culture and chorus singing. The 

 object is to give girls a thorough school culture, and to prepare those who 

 wish it for entrance to any college or university where women are admitted. 

 In the summer of 1892 Miss Orton erected a fine building in old Spanish 

 style of architecture, designed and planned purposely for her school, with 

 five recitation rooms — No. 124 South Euclid Avenue. She had 16 pupils 

 the first year, and about 60 in all departments the past year. 



WILLIAMS BUSINESS COLLEGE. 

 Commenced September 17, 1894, in Strong's Block on Colorado street: 

 T. J. Williams, principal ; Miss Bertha Buckingham, teacher of English 

 branches ; Chas. A. Miles, business agent. Full courses in all branches of 

 book-keeping, penmanship, pen drawing, shorthand, typewriting, etc. Fur- 

 niture and apparatus, about $800. Publish a paper called The New Education. 



PASADENA'S STATE NORMAL GRADUATES. 



Prof. E. T. Pierce, now principal of the State Normal School at Los 

 Angeles, has kindly furnished me the following list of all the young people 

 from Pasadena who have graduated at that institution : 



