instruction for themselves and their clerks. He thereupon 
abandoned his plans to proceed to New Orleans, and in 
1839 the first business training school of America had its 
inception in Pittsburgh at the corner of what is now First 
avenue and Market street. 
His efforts were highly repaid by the interest and coop- 
aration of enterprising merchants. and in the following vear. 
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1840, the school was incorporated by the Legislature of the 
State as “Duff’s Mercantile College of Pennsylvania”. The 
school grew in popularity and size, and after nearly twenty 
years, it was removed to Fifth avenue, where it located in 
the Hussey building. In 1858, William H. Duff succeeded 
his father and became principal of the college. Under his 
direction, the institution attained the leading rank among 
pusiness colleges. Requiring larger quarters, the school re-