Norristown Academy
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Norristown Academy was a public academy established in 1804 in Norristown, Pennsylvania
. Many prominent people have been educated there, including the sons of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock
, Governor David Rittenhouse Porter, James Madison Porter
, and Samuel Medary
.
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Norristown is a municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, northwest of the city limits of Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill River. The population was 34,324 as of the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Montgomery County...
. Many prominent people have been educated there, including the sons of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War...
, Governor David Rittenhouse Porter, James Madison Porter
James Madison Porter
James Madison Porter , a Pennsylvanian, was the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College....
, and Samuel Medary
Samuel Medary
Samuel Medary Born and raised in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he settled in Ohio in 1825. After a term in the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio State Senate as a Jackson Democrat, he purchased a newspaper in Columbus that became the Ohio Statesman, which he edited until 1857...
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