The Union Library Company of Hatboro and the Loller Academy in Hatboro, 1959.

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The Union Library Company of Hatboro and the Loller Academy in Hatboro, 1959.

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Bucks County Historical Society

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Union Library Company of Hatborough

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Sacks, Carol

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Loller Academy (Hatboro, Pa.)

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"Robert Loller (1740-1808) was an educator, surveyor, and courageous patriot. He fought at Trenton, Princeton, and Germantown. He was elected to the Continental Congress and helped draft the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Constitution. He left instructions in his will for another illustrious neighbor and good friend, Nathaniel Boileau, to build the Loller Academy at a cost of $11,000. The school was opened after Loller's death, closed shortly after the Civil War, and again became a state...