 Nathan C. Brooks , ( 1839 – 1849 ) , first principal of " The High School " , then first established in rented townhouse on west side of Courtland Street ( now St. Paul Street / Place - " Preston Gardens " ) , by East Saratoga Street , later moved briefly several times . Noted classical scholar / educational leader of the era , later only President of the Baltimore Female College until the 1880s , one of earliest institutions of higher learning for women - predecessor to later Goucher College 
