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But the prestige of LaGrange as an educational center grows out of its enterprise in founding two successful seminaries of learning for young ladies. Thomas Stan- ley, in the early thirties, here established a school for girls, out of which grew the LaGrange Female College, one of the pioneer institutions of Methodism in Georgia. It was chartered on December 17, 1847, as the LaGrange Female Institute, with the following board of trustees,
*Stephen F. Miller, in Bench and Bar of Georgia, Vol. II.
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viz .: Sampson Duggar, Hampton W. Hill, Daniel Mc- Millan, Orville A. Bull and Thomas B. Greenwood .* On December 26, 1851, by legislative act, it became the La- Grange Female College, a name which it still retains. The Southern Female College was founded in 1845 by Rev. Milton E. Bacon, a noted Baptist educator. It was incorporated as the LaGrange Female Collegiate Semi- nary, afterwards as the Southern and Western Female College, and finally, on February 17, 1854, as the Southern Female College, by which name it is still known. La- Grange is today one of the most progressive towns of the State, a wide-awake trade center, with up-to-date public utilities, solid business establishments, sound banks and many palatial homes. Such noted men as General Hugh A. Haralson, Hon. Benjamin H. Hill, Hon. Julius A. Al- ford and others, have been residents of this historic old Georgia town.
James H. Cam- On the site of the present town of La- eron: Pioneer. Grange, the first house was built by James H. Cameron, a pioneer settler of Scotch descent. It was a structure of logs, built after the fashion which then prevailed on the frontier; but in later years this primitive dwelling was replaced by a handsome edifice. James H. Cameron's daughter, Fran- ces, married Gen. Alfred Austell, who afterwards found- ed in Atlanta, the first national bank ever organized in the Southern States. The Cameron family was estab- lished in Troup by five brothers: David and Thomas settled in the neighborhood of Franklin, an Indian trad- ing post which afterwards developed into West Point; while James H., B. H., and William Cameron settled near the center of the county, in the neighborhood of what is now the city of LaGrange. These sturdy Scotch- men came into Troup soon after the county was opened to settlement. They were the sons of James Cameron, who emigrated from Scotland to North Carolina, in 1770,
*Acts, 1847, p. 120.
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participated in the war of the Revolution, and some time after the close of hostilities came with his family to Georgia, first locating in Jasper.
Tomb of Gen. Hugh Underneath a substantial monument A. Haralson. in the town cemetery at LaGrange sleeps a distinguished soldier and civilian, after whom Georgia has named one of her coun- ties : General Hugh A. Haralson. Three of his daugh- ters married eminent men. One became the wife of General John B. Gordon, Governor and United States Senator. , Another married Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckley, while a third married Hon. Basil H. Overby, a pioneer advocate of temperance and the first Prohi- bition candidate for Governor of Georgia. The inscrip- tions on the Haralson monument are as follows :
On the west side: "Sacred to the memory of GEN. HUGH A. HARALSON, who departed this life Sept. 25, 1854, in the 49th year of his age." On the south side : "Here we have buried our head, husband and father. We must not murmur. What God does is right. "
Burnt Village: a Tale of the Indian Wars.
Pages 460-464.
West Point. When the lands in this part of Georgia were first acquired by the whites, there was located on the site of the present town of West Point a trading post known as Franklin. It was the center of quite an important traffic with the Indians, who came hither to exchange peltry-sometimes for firearms, but more frequently for fire-water; and since the trading post was conveniently located with reference to both the Creeks and the Cherokees, these tribes were often seen here, long after the treaty of Indian Springs, under which all the lands between the Flint and Chattahoochee were
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ceded to the whites. In the neighborhood of the old trading post there arose a village, the population of which was augmented by new settlers when Troup County was formed out of a part of the Creek Indian lands. Two of the earliest pioneers, whose quest of for- tune brought them to this remote part of the wilderness, were Thomas Winston and O. D. Whitaker. Mr. George H. Winston, the former's son, became a very prominent man in the social and public life of Troup. His acquaintance with West Point began when the vil- lage was still known by the name of Franklin, and he learned to speak with ease both the Creek and Cherokee languages, through frequent contact with the Indians who came here to trade. In 1832 the name of the town was changed to West Point. Three years later the cor- porate limits were extended, and on December 25, 1837, a charter was granted to the West Point Academy, with the following board of trustees, to-wit .: Benjamin P. Robertson, William Reid, Dickerson Burnham, John M. Russell, John C. Webb and Edward B. Terrell. Some of the last fighting of the Civil War occurred at Fort Tyler. But while the town of West Point is rich in heroic memo- ries, it is likewise suffused with the spirit of the new era. Its public-school system is unsurpassed in the State. Commercially the town is prosperous, with a wide-awake body of citizens, whose business activities are financed by sound banking institutions.
Fort Tyler : The Fort Tyler, overlooking West Point,
Last to Surrender. was the last Confederate fort to yield to the enemy during the Civil War. The date on which this surrender took place was April 16, 1865, and in the desperate fight which occurred at this time General Robert C. Tyler, the commander in charge, was killed while making a gallant defence of the town .. The reader is referred to Volume I of this work for a more detailed account of the battle at West Point. The local U. D. C. chapter bears the historic name of Fort
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Tyler and, under the auspices of this chapter, a handsome · Confederate monument was unveiled on Memorial Day in 1901 .*
TURNER
Ashburn.
Volume I, Pages 982-984.
To supplement the historical sketch of Ashburn con- tained in the preceding volume of this work, we take pleasure in publishing the affidavit hereto attached :
We, the undersigned, certify that there was a public road here, where Ashburn now stands, before the town was ever built, and was known as the Troupville Road, and was built by the Government.
Also that there were settlers here during the war, and some of them yet here, and who have done much more in the upbuilding of the county than the newcomers.
Further, that one of the natives, D. H. Davis named the town of Ashburn for W. W. Ashburn, who gave the land for the town.
Chandler & Gorday was the first business firm of Ashburn. The natives are: Henderson, Paulk, Whiddon, Cravey, Hamons, Hobby, House, Story, Hall, Champion, Rainey, Pate, Pitts, Bowman, Kerce, Cone, Clements, Bass, Stephens, Pittman, Weavers, Gordays, Judges, Thomas, Fletchers, Wells, Hawkins, Chandlers, Davis, Brock, Covington, Averys, Mays, Fitzgeralds, Kendricks, Lamberts, Curtoy, Hart, Wilder Smith, Handcock, Lnkes, Summers, Fords, Tisons, Kings, McCalls, Shivers, Marshalls, Filyaws, Mc- Lendons, Wheelers, Fountains, Webbs, Suggs, Roso, Townsends, Branches, Springs, Rooks, Mills, Barfields, Williams, Royals, Youngs, .Browns, Yawn, Wiggins.
Signed :
W. A. Story,
J. A. Clements,
A. L. Bobby,
D. G. Barfield,
D. F. Avery,
Z. Bass (Atty.),
D. N. Shiver,
IV. C. Cone,
J. J. Covington,
S. M. Shivers,
J. L. Bass,
T. T. Fillyaw,
J. R. Stephens,
John D. Hobby,
J. W. Henderson,
G. W. Turner,
J. E. Paulk (D. D. S.),
E. Y. Paulk (Tax Collector T. Co.),
*The statement made in Vol. I to the effect that the above monument was unveiled by the Ladies' Memorial Association is erroneous.
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A. E. Bass,
O. W. Smith,
D. F. Bowman, Sr.,
J. T. MeLendon,
W. J. Luke,
W. A. Nipper,
Mrs. Zary Nipper,
M. Owens, E. T. Pate,
James Cravey,
T. A. Kendrick (Confed. Vet.),
J. R. Brock,
Mrs. W. L. Pittman,
W. L. Pittman (Tax Receiver T. Co.),
J. L. Royal,
A. B. Wells,
B. F. Rainey,
J. B. White, Sr. (1849), Dav. Cravey,
A. P. Hamons,
Joe McHandcock (Ordinary, T. Co.),
S. D. Gladden,
J. H. Story,
W. E. Branch,
J. J. Davis,
J. J. McDowell,
H. M. Cockrell (Confed. Vet.),
B. H. Cockrell (Dept. Clerk, Supr. Court, T. Co.),
D. H. Hamons,
R. D. Law,
S. Bailey (70 years),
W. D. Ross,
M. L. Dowdy,
A. J. Pitts,
Mrs. Polly Dowdy,
C. T. Royal, Sr.,
W. B. Brock,
W. M. Massey,
Mrs. Bettie Brock,
L. T. Nipper,
Nas Rainey,
B. E. Smith,
Mrs. Mollie Rainey,
C. C. Story,
R. W. Lambert,
H. Pitts,
Mrs. A. B. Wells,
Homer Adams,
D. W. Spires,
A. J. Story,
G. R. Luke, M. D.,
W. L. Luke, Warren L. Story, Md.
J. R. Rainey,
J. A. King (Sheriff, T. C.),
T. D. Marshburn,
W. K. Wiggins,
J. W. Hobby,
M. M. Pate,
B. J. Wills,
T. A. Judge,
W. T. Smith, -
Jas. M. Rainey,
J. M. Pate,
J. C. Mclendon,
Allen Owens,
R. N. Wiggins,
G. M. Hawkins,
A. J. Sumner,
G. W. Hobby,
T. M. Roberts,
G. C. Avery,
J. E. Roberts,
B. D. White,
B. S. Pate,
J. M. Courtoy,
John Pate,
E. B. Hamons,
W. J. Musselwhite,
A. H. Pitts,
W. H. Wheeler,
H. S. Story,
Ben Cravey,
Joshua Owens,
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GEORGIA, TURNER COUNTY :
Personally, comes before me an officer duly authorized to administer oaths, H. M. Harp, who, being duly sworn, says on oath that the foregoing is an exact copy of names attached to the foregoing certificate.
II. M. HARP.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this January, 1914.
C. W. DEARISO, Not. Publie Turner County, Ga.
TWIGGS
Old Marion. Volume I.
Jeffersonville. The original county-seat of Twiggs was Marion, a town whose name no longer ap- pears upon the map of Georgia. On February 11, 1850, an Act was approved authorizing a removal of the county- seat to such a place as the Inferior Court might designate on certain lands owned by Henry Solomon. The same Act prescribes that the new county-seat was likewise to be called Marion. But the removal contemplated in this Act was not accomplished until years afterward, when the site of public buildings was fixed at Jeffersonville, a town named for the great Sage of Monticello. This town grew out of an Act approved December 25, 1837, creating the Jeffersonville Land Company, the declared purpose of which was to form a village, and to erect a female col- lege. The stockholders in this enterprise were : John R. Lowery, Jesse Sinclair, George W. Welch, Kelly Glover, Joshua R. Wimberley, Peter G. Thompson, Thomas J. Perryman, Milton Wilder, William Choice, William E. Carswell and Isaiah Atteway .*
UNION
Blairsville. In 1832 Union was organized out of a part of the Cherokee lands, with Blairsville as the county-seat. The town was named for Francis P.
*Acts, 1837, p. 144.
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Blair, Sr., of Kentucky, and was incorporated by an Act approved December 26, 1835, with the following-named commissioners, to-wit .: Philip D. Maroney, Thomas Kelly, David Hawkins, Ebenezer Fain and Hugh Cape- hart.1 On December 21, 1833, the Blairsville Academy was granted a charter, with Messrs. John Sanders, Rich- ard Holden, John Butt, Jr., Moses Anderson and Thomas Colling as trustees.2 Charmingly situated among the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blairsville is an attractive little town needing only railway facilities to stimulate it into a vigorous growth.
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Thomaston. On December 15, 1824, an Act was approved creating a new county out of lands formerly embraced within the limits of Pike and Crawford, and, in honor of a distinguished ante-bellum lawyer, Hon. Ste- phen Upson, of Lexington, it was called Upson: The name given to the seat of government was Thomaston, presumably for General Jett Thomas, a gallant officer of the War of 1812, and a practical engineer, who built the first State Capitol at Milledgeville; but while such is the presumption there is nothing in the records to es- tablish the fact. The site for public buildings was made permanent at Thomaston on June 11, 1825, at which time a charter of incorporation was granted to the town, with the following-named commissioners, to-wit .: Ed- ward Holloway, Robert W. Collier, James Walker, Sr., James Cooper and Joseph Rogers.3
One of the first communites in the State to realize the possibilities of the iron horse as a motive power of commerce, the people of Thomaston began early in the thirties to agitate the building of a line of railway be- tween Thomaston and Barnesville, and on December 23,
1 Acts, 1835, p. 113.
2 Acts, 1833, p. 7.
3 Acts, 1825, p. 23.
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1839, an Act was approved chartering a company to build this road. The stockholders named in this pioneer charter were: Robert Redding, David Kendall, Thomas F. Bethel, Thomas Flewellen, Thomas Thweatt, Thomas Beall, William Lowe, Milus R. Meadows, Allen M. Walker, Nathaniel F. Walker, William A. Cobb, Edwin C. Turner and John Castlen.1 Since it was out of the question to secure a trunk line, Thomaston undertook to do the next best thing, viz., to build a spur line to Barnes- ville, there to connect with the old Monroe Railroad, now · a part of the Central of Georgia. Some few years later, on February 9, 1854, a charter was obtained for the Thomaston Railroad Company to construct a line from Thomaston to West Point, with the following stockhold- ers named in the charter: Thomas F. Bethel, Curran Rogers, Thomas W. Reviere, David Kendall, William Lowe, Jesse Sternes, Nathaniel Walker, James M. Smith and William A. Cobb.2
Both of these lines were eventually constructed. But the one between Thomaston and Barnesville became em- barrassed by debt and in 1860 was sold under judgment by the sheriff of Upson to the following parties, to-wit .: Andrew J. White, Curran Rogers, Woodson and Bow- dre, William Lowe, James Trice, B. B. White, James M. Middlebrooks, Jesse Sternes, Thomas S. Sherman, B. B. King, D. R. Beall, Duke . Williams, Thomas Cauthron, Simeon Rogers, John C. Drake, Isaac Cheney, James M. Smith, Benjamin Bethel, David Kendall, Sylvanus Gib- son, William Spivey, Jonathan Colquitt & Co., John Traylor, William A. Cobb, William Stephens and Daniel Denham.3 The Thomaston Academy was chartered in 1825, soon after the county was organized.
On December 23, 1857, the town was reincorporated with the following-named commissioners : John C. Drake, John Thompson, William Carraway and Norman Brice.
1 Acts, 1839, p. 101.
2 Acts, 1853-1854, p. 428.
3 Acts, 1860, p. 199.
4 Acts, 1857, p. 103.
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There was not a community in the State more fortunate in its pioneer settlers than Thomaston. Some of them amassed large wealth, built spacious and splendid old homes, and dispensed a hospitality in keeping with the best days of the ancient regime. Thomaston is today quite an important commercial .and manufacturing cen- ter, with a number of prosperous financial and business establishments. Robert E. Lee Institute is one of the best-equipped high schools in the Southern States, and its principal, Prof. F. F. Rowe, one of the South's fore- most educators.
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Some of the Early In addition to the pioneers mentioned in the fore- Pioneers.
going sketch of Upson, there were others no less prominent whose names deserve mention. On the list of incorporators of the old Upson Camp Ground, for which a charter was granted by the Legislature, in 1837, we find Peter Holloway, James Hightower and Wm. G. Andrews, all of whom were men of means, pos- sessed of large landed estates. Rev. Zachariah Gordon, a Baptist minister, owned a plantation on the Flint River as early as 1833, and here his dis- tinguished son, General John B. Gordon, was born. Jacob and Butler King, cousins of Zachariah Gordon, were also pioneer settlers. Dr. Curran Rogers was an early physician. His father, Simeon Rogers, was one of the first comers into Upson. "Rogers's Factory, " a noted landmark of the county for years and one of the pioneer industrial enterprises of Georgia, was burned by the Federals in 1865. It stood within easy walking dis- tance of Thomaston. Colonel Roland Ellis, of Macon, is a grandson of this early settler. Rev. Simeon Shaw, a former missionary to Japan, is also one of his descendants. The gifted Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers mar- ried his son. Still another pioneer family of Upson were the Myricks, a family of wide note in the public life of Georgia. The first Mayor of Thomaston was Dr. John Calvin Drake, a man greatly beloved by the people of Upson. His wife, a woman of marked intellect and character, was spared to him for more than sixty years. She bore him a large family of children, one of whom married General George P. Harrison, of Alabama, a distinguished Confederate officer. Mr. G. A. Weaver, Sr., of Thomaston, also married a daughter of Dr. Drake. Throughout the entire war period, this noted physician, too old to serve in the ranks, practiced without fee in the families of the soldiers, giving them freely of his professional skill. After the war he was sent to the Legislature, but the fiery tempered old gentleman let the radicals seat William Guilford, a negro, before he would take the oath of allegiance prescribed by the military government. Dr.
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Drake was born in North Carolina, of Revolutionary ancestors. Judge Travis A. D. Weaver, a native of Greene County, Ga., was also an early settler of Upson. He was a courtly old gentleman, a Mason, a steward in the Methodist Church, and a man of deep religious faith. His father, Benjamin Weaver, was a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. G. A. Weaver, Sr., and Professor W. T. Weaver, sons of Judge Weaver, each became men of mark in Georgia, the former as a captain of industry, the latter as a leader of the hosts of education.
Helped to Make Washington's Casket. Old man John Webb was an interesting figure in Thomaston for many years. He kept the old Webb House, made coffins, and married five or six times. He was born in Maryland and at an early age was appren- ticed to a cabinetmaker in Alexandria, Va., named Greene. This gentle- man secured a contract to make the coffin which today holds the remains of George Washington. John Webb helped his employer to make this coffin in 1832. Every scrap of the old casket, out of which the body was taken, found a most jealous custodian in Undertaker Greene, who treas- ured it in his possession with a miser's care; but John Webb was for- tunate enough to secure a part of the old coffin, and when he came to Georgia a few years later it was still among his treasured effects.
Upson in the Civil War. More than 1,200 men enlisted in the Confederate Army from Upson. Colonel James M. Smith, afterwards Gov- ernor of Georgia, was practicing law in Thomaston when the war began. He left here as Captain of Company D, in the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment. General John B. Gordon, one of the most illustrious of Confederate leaders, to whose command was entrusted half of Lee's army at Appomattox, was born on a plantation in Upson. Colonel P. W. Alexander, afterwards celebrated as a war correspondent, was a young practitioner of law at Thomaston, at the outbreak of hostilities in 1861. Captain J. W. F. Hightower, a gallant cavalry officer, commanded Com- pany E, in the Third Battalion of Georgia Reserves. His sons, R. E. Hightower, president of the Thomaston Cotton Mills, and W. C. High- tower, of the Britt-Hightower Stock Company, are representative and prosperous business men of Thomaston. Dr. E. A. Flewellen was a promi- nent surgeon in Bragg's army. He died at the Rock, in 1910, at the age of ninety-one years, unmarried. He left a large estate, but was a somewhat erratic old gentleman, who selected his own monument a few months prior to his death. On the list of the slain at Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862, was the name of gallant Ed Dallas, first lieutenant of the Upson
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Volunteers, Company D, of the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment. He left a wife and six children. Somewhere, near the waters of the Chesapeake, he fills an unknown grave, but his memory is still cherished and revered in Thomaston, where four of his sons today reside. In the U. D. C. Chap- ter-room, at the R. E. Lee Institute, there is a blood-stained battle flag presented to the chapter on the 26th of April, 1913, by the Davis family of Thomaston. It tells a splentlid story of heroic daring, one of which his descendants to the latest generation may well be proud. James R. Davis, a beardless boy, in the Upson Sentinels, Company A, Forty-sixth Georgia Regiment, saw the color-bearer shot down at Franklin, Tenn. Without waiting for orders, he grasped the broken flagstaff and pressed forward until he was shot through the lungs and from the loss of blood fell exhausted upon the field of battle. He recovered from the effects of his wound, but died later of tuberculosis. At the commencement of the war, W. T. Weaver and G. A. Weaver, were students at Emory College, Oxford, but fired by the martial spirit they joined a lot of college boys and set out for Macon, where they enlisted as private soldiers. Each of these boys gave a good account of himself at the front .*
The Confeder- In the spring of 1908 a handsome monument was ate Monument. unveiled at Thomaston to commemorate the heroism of the Confederate soldiers who went to the front from Upson. Judge J. E. F. Matthews, Ordinary of the county, delivered a masterly address on this occasion, in which he cited many important facts of local history connected with the war between the States. This address, which was afterwards published because of its historie value, contains a full roster of the companies going to the war from Upson. The following passage is quoted from the address of Judge Matthews: "Fifty-one Confederate soldiers who died in the hospitals in Thomaston, Ga., in 1864, have at the heads of their graves in the Thomaston Ceme-, tery marble slabs with inscriptions showing that they were from a half dozen different Southern States, to-wit .: South Carolina, North Caro- lina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia. Some of the graves are marked 'Unknown. ' "'
Distinguished Resi- On the honor roll of Upson's distinguished resi- dents of Upson. dents there are many bright names. Foremost upon the list comes General John B. Gordon, the renowned hero of Appomattox, Governor, United States Senator and Com- mander of the United Confederate Veterans. Congressman George Carey,
*Much of this information was furnished by Mrs. Kate Weaver Dallas, of Themaston, Ga.
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during the last years of his life, came from Columbia County to Upson. Rev. Daniel J. Myrick, one of the ablest of Methodist theologians and scholars, was born at the Rock. His work on "Scripture Baptism," is still one of the recognized standards. Bishop Warren A. Candler, of At- lanta, is a cousin, and Judge Shelby Myrick, of Savannah, is a grandson of this noted Dr. Myrick. Rev. W. L. Pickard, D. D., the newly elected president of Mercer University, at Macon, was born in Upson. This was also the birthplace of Rev. B. J. W. Graham, D. D., one of the present editors and owners of the Christian Index. The beloved Dr. Thomas R. Kendall, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, spent his boyhood days in Upson; and here his talented sister, Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers, was born. The latter has written many exquisite gems of song. Reared in luxury, her beautiful ante-bellum home was one of the landmarks of the old South. Professor G. F. Oliphant, the well-known superintendent of the Academy for the Blind, at Macon, was reared and educated at Thomas- ton, where he was a member of the first graduating class to receive diplo- mas from R. E. Lee Institute. Later he was for a number of years president of this school. Hon. Charles S. Barrett, the official head of the Farmers' Union, began his career as a planter in Upson. Here he also married and taught school. Dr. Lincoln McConnell, the noted Baptist evangelist, one of the most successful lecturers on the American platform, purchased not long ago the old Respass place, a few miles out from Thomaston, and here he spends a part of each year.
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La Fayette. La Fayette, the county-seat of Walker County, was originally known as Chat- tooga, and, under this name, it was made the site of public buildings when the county was first organized out of a part of Murray, in 1833. But later the name was changed to La Fayette, in honor of the illustrious French nobleman, who gave his sword to America during the Revolution. Two local academies were granted char- ters of incorporation, the Chattooga Academy, in 1836, and the La Fayette Female Academy, in 1837, and by glancing over a list of trustees chosen for the latter school we may obtain the names of some of the leading pioneer citizens. The trustees of this school were: Will- iam Quillian, James Hoge, A. L. Barry, Spencer Marsh and David L. Seward .* Between a Federal force, under
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