Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Burd, William H. ???? - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  WILLIAM H. BURD, principal of the Roosevelt Junior High School, of Altoona, 
has been connected with the schools of this city since 1902.  Born at Donnelly 
Mills, Perry County, Pa., he is a son of James and Ellen (Long) Burd, both 
natives of the same county and both deceased, and is one of a family of four 
children, of whom the others are Samuel W., Edward Howard, and Anna L.  His 
early education was received in the public schools of his native place and his 
preparation for teaching at the Cumberland Valley Normal School.  Matriculating 
at Lebanon Valley College, he graduated therefrom in 1901.  In 1902, he came to 
Altoona, where he has held the principalship of the Emerson, Garfield, Wright, 
and Central Grammar Schools and, since 1924, of the Roosevelt Junior High 
School.  In this last capacity, as the first principal of the first junior high 
school in the city, he has done an outstanding piece of work for public 
education.  He has taken additional collegiate training at the University of 
Pennsylvania and Columbia University.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
and as a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church, is an elder of that body.  
In 1908, he married Eleanor Campbell, of Pennsylvania Furnace, who had been 
engaged as director of a public kindergarten in Altoona.  They are the parents 
of four children: Howard H., a senior at Purdue University; Eleanor C., a 
graduate of Wilson College; Dorothy E., and Anna McF.

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