Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia established the school in 1839. Boarding facilities opened on the 15th of October 1839 with thirty-five boys attending classes under Rev. William N. Pendleton.
Rev. William N. Pendleton became the first principal when the school opened in 1839. The institution purchased land for five thousand dollars in the Seminary Hill neighborhood of Alexandria that same year.
Union Army forces occupied Alexandria in 1861 causing Episcopal to close immediately while buildings served as a hospital for Union troops. The institution reopened in 1866 under Principal William Fowler Gardner after a complete pause in academic operations.
September 1968 saw the admission of African American students Regi Burns and Sam Paschall under Archibald R. Hoxton Jr. Forty eight girls joined the campus in 1991 as The First 48 before a coeducational class graduated in 1993.
John McCain attended classes here before graduating in 1954 and later became Republican senator from Arizona and presidential nominee in 2008. Harry Klinefelter graduated in 1930 becoming a rheumatologist known for medical discoveries while Langhorne Bond served as FAA administrator between 1977 and 1981.