History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 130
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] under the visitation of the Regents of the University, •and in June, 1877, the advanced pupils were exam-ined in the Regents' questions by a committee acting in their name. Before the opening of the new build-ing in lKiJO it had a succession of four principals. Since then it has had a succession of twelve princi-pals, the last of whom is.Mr. Nathan H. Du Mond, who was appointed March 1, 187(1, and still occupies the position. There are at present, in addition, seven teachers — two male and five female. The General Storms Mansion — Interesting Relics. — In Cortlandt Street, North Tarrytown, with its seven huge pillars supporting the roof of the piazza fronting the south, is the resilience of the late Brigadier-* icneral Henry Storms, so long connected with the military affairs of the State, and so untiring in his efforts to gather up and to preserveall memorials I of American patriotism that might tend to foster the love of country, especially in the young. General Storms was born, of Huguenot extraction, in the city I of New York on June 4, 1795, and died in North Tarrytown April 11, 1874. So early were his mili-tary tendencies developed that in the war of 1812, when he was only seventeen, his father had great