This building was occupied for a time as a grade school but was unsatisfactory because it divided the school system.   Later it became a business college, then a Baptist Church.  It was sold by Elder Joseph Ford to Geo. C. Adriance who remodeled it into a home.

Colonel Jacob Van Loan came to Seneca from Erie,  Pennsylvania in 1968.  He was a money maker and came to Seneca with considerable cash.  He died in June 16, 1881 at the age of 73, leaving $25,000 which would have been a considerable amount of money at that time. The school district No. 11 was to get one fourth of his estate.  This school was built at a cost of $8,000.00. 

Colonel Jacob Van Loan and  his wife are buried in the Seneca Cemetery.

Harry Burger had told me he attended business school after his father died. He would get up and milk and feed the cows and take the milk to the depot, and then go on to this school which was a business school at that time. .

The building still stands in the south part of Seneca and is unoccupied at this time (2004).   This building as it looks today is pictured below. I understand it will be removed soon and a new home is to be built at this location