San Diego County Biographies

A.W. ATHERTON & CO.

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Perhaps the mission of business educators has never been more clearly understood 
than by the proprietors of the San Diego Commercial College, and certainly the 
success attending their efforts to acomplish [sic] this mission has been great. 
These gentlemen aim to foster and train individually, to cultivate executive 
habits of mind, to give absolute knowledge of useful facts, and thus to prepare 
pupils to master emergencies.
The college is but four years old. It has been patronized however, by those 
whose patronage means excellence in the work. It has over forty ex-students 
placed in responsible positions and doing well. Its pride though, is its Alumni 
association of over sixty members, banded together for mutual help. Messrs. A.W. 
Atherton and O.P. Koerting, the proprietors, pursue a policy of liberal 
advertising. They regard as a favor any inquiries about the college, and are 
especially grateful for letters asking information. They have already quite an 
attendance from outside of the city, and wish to increase it. The course 
embraces English, arithmetic, penmanship, short-hand, type-writing and 
bookkeeping. Such modern methods of instruction and of discipline are used as 
make this school life a revelation to the student. The effects produced on 
character by the work are very marked.
 
An Illustrated History of Southern California: Embracing the Counties of San 
Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California, from the Earliest Period of Occupancy to the Present Time.... - 
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. pp 108