In the summer of 1869, according to Agnes Repplier's 1934 Agnes Irwin: A Biography, two principals of a girls' school in Philadelphia were drowned at Bar Harbor. This tragic happening gave Agnes Irwin the opening she sought.That Summer, Irwin became principal of the West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies after the tragic deaths of the two people who had been governing the school. She took charge of the school on Penn Square, retaining the former teachers, according to Repplier. Everyone said that a good start had been made, but no one dreamed of what would grow from that quiet and modest beginning.
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