Wilcox Library of William Penn University inwards Oskaloosa, IA posted several fascinating sets of photos yesterday on Fb commemorating a burn downwards May 27, 1916 that destroyed the Old Main of what was as well as then Penn College. The library's posts include images of telegrams of back upwards from to a greater extent than or less the country, paper articles amongst reports of the burn downwards as well as the cleanup. College business director Robert Williams as well as pupil Harry Oakley lost their lives when walls collapsed. The posts banking concern notation that Old Main was constructed inwards 3 phases amongst the offset W fly department funded past times the Iowa Union College Association of Friends as well as completed inwards 1873. The key fly was completed inwards 1877 as well as funded past times the Quakers. The 3rd as well as terminal E fly was completed inwards 1890 as well as funded past times the citizens of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
