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Emmerich, a native of Koblenz, Germany, joins the IPS faculty at Indianapolis High School at the invitation of Superintendent Abraham C. Shortridge. In 1895, he becomes the first principal of the Industrial Training School, one of the first of its kind in the U.S. The school is named Emmerich Manual High School in 1916. 

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