the needwood and delamere schools only operated for about a decade, but they launched other educators' careers and advanced benjamin franklin's theory of instruction. for example, august christian whitehair, born about 1760, graduated from delamere and settled in modern-day preston county, west virginia in 1788, three years after booth's death. whitehair studied under booth and was the first teacher in the preston county union district (1790). the "history of preston county" notes whitehair as an educational pioneer within the german settlement.