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Trustees in the place of Dr. A. W. Rollins resigned, makes the above announcements in the Columbia Intelligencer of October, 18, 1834.
On November 10, 1834, Prof. Miller was publicly installed, with appropriate and imposing ceremonies. The Intelligencer gives this account of it : -
At an early hour many citizens assembled at the Court House, and were formed into a procession, under the command of Capt. D. M. Hickman, who had been previ- ously appointed marshal of the day. They then proceeded to the Presbyterian Church, where the ceremony of inauguration took place. It is seldom we have witnessed a more interesting procession. Its brilliancy was especially heightened by the uniform and lovely appearance of the young ladies from the Female Academy, whose presence dispelled the gloom which an inclement day was calculated to inspire, and excited a deeper and more lively interest in the exercises of the day. The Throne of Grace was addressed by Rev. F. R. Gray. The keys of the college were then presented to Mr. Miller by Dr. Moss, chairman of the Board of Trustees, with a few very dignified and appropriate remarks upon the nature and importance of the charge devolving upon him, which was followed by a luminous and well-written address from Prof. Miller, in vindication of a thorough college education. The correctness of the po- sitions assumed were not the most impressive parts of the address. . It was presented in a fervid and animated style of composition - diction the most happy, and abounded throughout in the choicest classical allusions and the finest illustrutions. We are disinclined, however, to anticipate the public on this subject, as it will be presented to them shortly in pamphlet form.
Upon the whole, we were delighted with the manner in which everything was conducted, and we think it augurs bright prospects, not only for Columbia and Boone County, but for the State.
Copies of this address in pamphlet form are still extant, and but for the want of space copious extracts would be here made from it. It is scholarly and ornate in language, beautiful in style, and well cal- culated to awaken popular enthusiasm on the subject of education.
The first session of Columbia College opened auspiciously, as an- nounced, and continued successfully to the end of the term. On April 8, 1835, the public examination of students commenced, closing on the next day with exercises in declamation and composition. " Lit- erary persons, teachers of academies and schools, parents and guardi- ans, and the friends of education generally," were invited to attend. By invitation of the Board of Trustees, B. F. Robinson and W. Jenkins delivered addresses on the occasion, copies of which were requested for publication, and in the Intelligencer of April 18 the ad- dress of the former appears.
The first session of the institution proved so successful, not only in the character of the instruction imparted, but in the number of stu- dents, that the Board of Trustees were encouraged to call Rev. John
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Rennie, A. M., to a professorship, so that by the joint labors of two such scholars as Miller and Rennie the highest expectations of the public might be realized. Mr. Rennie having signified his acceptance, it was announced the second regular session of the institution would open on the first Monday in November, 1835 - James W. Moss, Chair- man, and Oliver Parker, Treasurer of the Board.
On Tuesday, November 24, 1835, Mr. Rennie was duly installed, and delivered an address on the occasion, pamphlet copies of which are yet extant. The Intelligencer, commenting on the address, says it received the highest commendation. " His arrangement was excel- lent, his style pure and elegant, his diction chaste and beautiful, his thoughts upon the subject of education profound ; and, in short, the whole address was well calculated to instruct and captivate his hear- ers, and every way worthy as emanating from the head and heart of a liberal and enlightened Christian."
Mr. Samuel Hart was announced as principal of the preparatory department.
With the faculty of instruction thus organized the college success- fully progressed for a few years, until failing health and a desire to engage in the practice of law with Major J. S. Rollins, induced the resignation of Prof. Miller, which was afterwards followed by the resignation of Prof. Rennie. In 1838, the Board of Trustees - Rev. Luther H. Van Doren, President ; James S. Rollins, Secretary ; Robert S. Barr, Treasurer ; Eld. Thos. M. Allen, Warren Woodson, William Cornelius, David S. Lamme, John B. Gordon and Thomas Miller - elected the following gentlemen to constitute the faculty of the col- lege : Rev. Luther H. Van Doren, A. M., President ; Rev. Robert S. Thomas, professor of languages ; Mr. David Dunlap, professor of mathematics ; Rev. E. P. Noel, teacher in the preparatory depart- ment, and the college was reopened for the reception of students on Monday, June 18, 1838.
Columbia College, of course, had no endowment, and therefore re- lied wholly upon public patronage for its support. This fact, supple- mented by another far more inimical to its continued, permanent existence, namely, that it was at this period in a transition state, with almost a positive certainty of being supplanted by the State Univer- sity, caused it to go out of existence. While it was in operation, however, it performed its duty nobly and laid the foundations for the education, culture and refinement which have so long distinguished our people.
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COLUMBIA FEMALE ACADEMY.
The early friends of education and liberal culture in Columbia were not satisfied with the establishment of Columbia College, designed exclusively for the education of their sons, but cotemporaneously with their noble and self-sacrificing efforts to found this institution were measures to organize an Academy of a high order for those times, for the education of their daughters.
Accordingly, on the 24th of August, 1833, a citizens' meeting was held in the Court House to take the subject into consideration, where- upon Gen. Richard Gentry was called to the chair, and Robert S. Thomas was made secretary. After suggestions by various gentle- men and warm commendation of the purposes of the meeting, resolu- tions were adopted with great unanimity, approving "a system of instruction calculated to bestow on the female sex a liberal education ; that we will patronize a Female Academy located in Columbia, upon a plan commensurate with the wants of our population, and we recom- mend to our fellow-citizens a cordial union and support with us."
To effect this object it was resolved that William Jewell, William Provines, William S. Burch, James Richardson, Joseph B. Howard, Stephen R. Bedford, William Shields, James H. Bennett, Samuel Wall, Roger N. Todd, Austin A. King, Moses U. Payne and Minor Neal be requested to associate together and constitute a " Board of Trustees of the Columbia Female Academy, and that they contract for the purchase, lease or rent of property ; the employment of teachers and the purchase of all necessary apparatus for the Academy within the means placed under their control, and that they make laws for the government of the Academy, its tutors and students, and ex- ercise every needful power until an act of incorporation *can be obtained by law." The Trustees were also requested by the meeting to secure the services of Miss Lucy Ann Wales as preceptoress of the institution.
The Academy was opened without delay in the Presbyterian Church, a new brick building which was erected in 1833,1 and at once. commended itself to the liberal patronage of the public.
The second session of six months opened on the first Monday in May, 1834, Joseph B. Howard, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, announcing that the number of pupils would be limited to twenty-five,
1 This church was erected on the north side of Walnut Street, between Fifth and Sixth, and north of the present Episcopal Church on Broadway.
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" and that a young lady can acquire as thorough an education here as at any academy west of the mountains." Terms of tuition, ten dol- lars per session. In 1836 means were raised by private subscrip- tion for the erection of an academy building and for the purchase of an eligible site. After due consideration the Trustees, on February 26, 1837, purchased of Wm. Cornelius, for $175, a lot, (No. 100) on the south side of Cherry Street, on the corner of Tenth (immediately west and opposite the present residence of Dr. G. W. Riggins ) on which they erected a one-story brick, about forty feet front, twenty- five feet deep, in which the academy was conducted for a number of years with marked success, under Miss Wales. N. W. Wilson and Thomas Selby were the building committee to superintend the work.
She resigned her position in 1840, and, returning to New York city, was married to Mr. John S. Thayer, and now resides at Chatta_ nooga, Tennessee. She was succeeded by Miss Lavinia Moore, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and John D. Perryman, after which the academy was conducted in the order named by Eleazer Root, Tyre C. Harris (who died at Lexington, Missouri, October 9, 1854, ) Oliver Cunningham and J. L. Sloan. Baptist (now Stephens ) College being established in 1856, and taking the place of Columbia Female Academy, the academy passed out of existence and the building and grounds were publicly sold June 20, 1865, by Moss Prewitt, Commissioner, under special act of the Legislature, approved February 15, 1865, to Dr. S. B. Victor, for $1,415, who now owns the property and rents it as a residence.
During the presidency of Mr. Harris, who died in 1854, large addi- tions, consisting of a second story and an ell, were made to the build- ing -the needed funds, about $1,800, being raised by private subscription, After the sale of the property to Dr. Victor the sum of $1,415, which was paid for it, was distributed pro rata among those who contributed means for the erection of the additions.
The academy was chartered by the Legislature, February 3, 1837,and its course of study was very liberal considering the times and circum- stances under which it was conducted. It embraced reading, writing, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geography, history, English grammar, botany, outlines of geology, chemistry, natural history, natural phil_ osophy, astronomy, logic, rhetoric, intellectual and moral philosophy, drawing, painting, music, ornamental needlework and frequent exer- cises in composition.
During the existence of the academy, the following ladies of educa-
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tion and approved competency were assistant teachers : Miss Eliza Ann Gentry, Miss Catherine Lynch (now Mrs. Catherine Clapp), Mrs. Amanda B. Woodson, Mrs. Thos. P. Giles, and Mrs. Margaret Phillips, the latter as teacher of music.
PUBLIC EXHIBITION, MARCH, 1841.
As a sample of the public literary exercises of the academy we give the following programme. It is copied from an article communicated by " W. F. S." to the Columbia Patriot, of April 3, 1841 :
The students have learned PRINCIPLES as well as FACTS, studied the PHILOSOPHY of the SCIENCES more than the LANGUAGE of AUTHORS, - and withal have enabled themselves to bring their knowledge into practical operation. Below will be found the names of those who have read compositions, and the subjects upon which they were written.
Miss Frances A. Provines. - The Passions.
Miss Davidella Todd. - Perception of the Beautiful.
Miss Arethusa J. Hardin. - Happiness the Result of Integrity.
Miss Caroline F. Todd. - Our Institutions.
Miss Julia Price. - Habits of Observation.
Miss Mary Harrison. - Home.
Miss Mary Ewing. - Gratitude.
Miss Ann Vanhorn. - No man can Learn all Things.
Miss Mary C. Beattie. - Love of Gold.
Miss Lucretia Caswell. - The Grave.
Miss Mary Neale - How Blessings Brighten as They take Their Flight.
Miss Mary Gentry and Miss Sallie Goode. - Letters passed between a Swede who had previously visited France, and a French Refugee in England during the Revolution.
Miss Eliza Seeley. - Patience Removes Mountains.'
Miss Elizabeth S. Broadwell. - Spring.
Miss Elizabeth V. Provines. - Pleasure of Meeting Long Absent Friends.
Miss Susan Howard. - Wind.
Miss Mary E. Barr. - Address to the Ocean.
Miss Fannie Law. - The Schoolroom.
Miss Susan Kuykendall. - Night.
Miss Mary Prewitt. - Stability of Character.
Miss Martha M. Goode. - Eloquence of Nature.
Dialogue. - Miss D. E. Todd, World of Mind; Miss C. F. Todd, World of Matter; Miss A. J. Hardin, Laws which Govern Them.
Dialogue. - Miss M. Harrison, Greece; Miss J. Price, Egypt; Miss M. Ewing, Chinese Empire; Miss A. Vanhorn, America.
Dialogue. - Miss Fannie Law, Frost; Miss M. M. Goode, Fire; Miss S. Howard, Water.
The delivery of an appropriate and well-written address by Rev. J. L. Yantis, closed the exercises of the evening.
It is impossible to describe or estimate the beneficent and elevating influences of this early institution of learning on the women of Colum-
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bia and Boone County, and through them on the people at large. It did much not only to educate in science and art and in the accom- plishments of cultivated society, the young ladies who attended it, but in elevating and strengthening the moral tone of the people, and in preparing them for the higher achievements in educational enter- prises which have since that period so distinguished our county.
But for Bonne Femme and Columbia Colleges we probably never would have had the State University and Agricultural College, and but for Columbia Female Academy, Stephens and Christian Colleges would have been above the ambition and beyond the grasp of our people.
CHAPTER V.
HISTORY OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
From 1818 to its Dedication, July 4, 1843 - Acts of Congress of 1818, 1820 and 1827 in regard to the Seminary Lands -Provisions of the State Constitution - Donation of ten acres by the Commissioners to locate the town of Columbia in 1821 for a Uni- versity site - Beneficent influence of Columbia College and Columbia Female Acad- emy - Rev. E. P. Lovejoy's observations on Columbia in 1834 - Legislation by the General Assembly from 1828 to 1843 - Austin A. King's resolutions in the Legisla- ture, November 21, 1836 - List of Seminary lands selected and where situated - The Legislature of 1838-39 provides for the location of the University in Cole, Cooper, Saline, Howard, Boone, or Callaway counties - Commissioners Appointed - The contest in Boone and other counties to secure the location - Law of Congress of 1831 authorizing the sale of the Seminary lands - In 1838 the Auditor makes report of their sale - A Combination in Jackson County prevents their sale at their value - The first Board of Curators - Boone County subscription - Complete list of sub- scribers - Boone County secures the University, June 24, 1839 -The first meeting of the first Board of Curators, October 7, 1839 -The site of the University edifice selected - Contracts made for its erection, and the corner-stone laid July, 4, 1840 - The Ceremonies-Rev. John C. Young, D. D. elected president October 28, 1839-Dr. Young, declining, John H. Lathrop was elected October 29, 1840 - His letter of ac- ceptance - He delivers a public address in the Union Church, and enters on the duties of his office March 1, 1841, in Columbia College Building.
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
The following comprises a full and complete list of the names of all the curators from the first board in 1839, to the last in 1882, and the year of their appointment. Some of them have been reappointed a number of times and have had long years of service, but this list only shows the year in which they were first appointed : -
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1839. - Thomas M. Allen, Eli E. Bass, M. M. Marmaduke. Gabriel Tutt, John T. A. Henderson, Wm. Scott, George C. Hart, John J. Lowry, Robert W. Wells, Rowland Hughes, Irvin O. Hockaday, Thomas West, Wm. Lientz, Priestly H. McBride.
1840. - Thomas D. Grant, William Shields, Dr. George Penn, Warren Woodson, Anthony W. Rollins, Dr. Wm. H. Duncan.
1841. - R. S. Thomas, Dr. Gustavus M. Bower, James W. Mor- row, John Slack, George W. Huston, B. B. Brown, Caleb S. Stone.
1842. - John Ellis.
1843. - William A. Robards, Joseph Carpenter, Wm. G. Minor.
1844. - Peter Wright.
1845. - Alexander Persinger, Moss Prewitt, John H. Lathrop, ex officio.
1846. - Gov. John C. Edwards, F. K. Martin, Secretary of State ; P. G. Glover, Treasurer ; J. R. McDearman, Auditor, ex officio ; Alexander H. Robinson, Allen B. Orear.
1847. - James L. Matthews, James S. Rollins.
1849. - Addison M. Lewis, F. R. Palmer, Dr. T. R. H. Smith, H. C. Dunn, Dr. W. J. McElhaney, J. A. Brown, Alton Long, Robert Brown, C. J. Hughes, John Corby, W. D. McCracken, James A. Clark, James Ellison, William Claude Jones.
1850. - Lewis W. Robinson.
1851. - Henry Fulbright, Daniel Patten, James L. Minor, Henry F. Garey, Nelson C. Orear.
1853. - George W. Hough, Dr. Joseph Chew, W. G. Eliot, John B. Clark, Sr., of Howard, R. G. Roberts, Henry Slack.
1854. - C. A. Hayden.
1856. - George L. Pollard, Dr. Henry W. Cross, Major Horner, Charles P. Bullock, Wm. C. Price, Charles L. Rogers, Calvin F. Burns, Wm. E. Brady.
1857. - Peter S. Wilkes, George H. Hall, Wm. A. Seay.
1858. - Michael Bright, Wm. B. Starke, Samuel A. Richardson. John A. Snell, John D. S. Dryden.
1859. - John W. Harris, A. S. Walker, James T. Campbell, Hiram Blacklege.
1860. - Ira Divoll, Wm. H. Allen, A. W. Flournoy, P. R. Smith, Robert A. Hatcher, I. W. Boulware, Willard P. Hall, F. M. Cockrell, J. D. Hill, Robert L. Todd, J. W. Tucker, J. H. Halley, A. W. Doniphan, Joseph J. Brady, David H. Hickman, Samuel Treat, who resigning, Hugh Campbell was appointed in his place, but declined to
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qualify, not having resided in the State two years as required by law.
1862. - Dr. M. R. Arnold, James H. Birch, Odon Guitar, P. B. Locke, Mordecai Oliver, Sample Orr, Francis T. Russell, Thomas B. Read, George O. Yeiser, John F. Philips, W. S. Mosely.
1863. - W. A. Gibson, Ferd. Overstolz, Wm. Carter, James H. Moss, John B. Clark, Sr., of Dade county.
1864. - S. M. Breckenridge, Rev. Henry A. Nelson, Elijah Perry, Bernard Popping, A. A. Matthews, James McWilliams, John R. Weaver, Rev. George W. Longan, Thompson J. Kelly, Dr. Franklin Cooley, Lemuel Dunn, Leonidas M. Lawson, Bennett Pike, Dr. George L. Hewitt, Alexander McMurtree, James H. Robinson, Michael M. Robinson, Hiram Philips.
1865. - Enos Clark, John W. Sutherland, Francis Kellerman, James Lindsay, E. F. Esteb, Gustave Bruiere, Charles E. Leonard, John P. Clark, Edward L. King, Rev. L. M. Vernon. T. A. Sher- wood, Rev. D. A. McReady, Alex. F. Denny.
1866. - Joseph D. Keebeaugh, James Love.
1867. - John W. Matthias, J. M. Woods, Andrew J. Shepard, James H. Baker, George R. Smith, Theo. S. Case, A. J. Barr, Phile- mon Bliss, Benjamin Northcott, Eugene Williams, Paul Hubbard, A. J. Conant, James M. Martine.
1868. - Edward Wyman, W. C. Mattison, G. A. Moser, C. P. Townsley.
1869. - Orville S. Read, Wm. H. McLane, Wm. W. Orrick, James H. Kerr, James S. Rollins.
1870. - Henry T. Mudd, George W. Kinney, James Moore, George Husmann, Barnabas Smith.
1871. - J. W. Barrett, Norman J. Colman, Dr. Wm. S. Dyer, Wm. T. Essex, Rev. John D. Vincil, J. F. Wielandy, Samuel G. Williams, John E. Worth, W. F. Switzler.
1872. - Henry Smith.
1873. - Alex. M. Dockery, John F. Bush, Jerry C. Cravens, C. P. Jones, Joshua LaDue, Walter T. Lenoir, Wm. Starke, Edwin W. Stephens.
1874. - H. Clay Ewing, Squire Turner, Martin L. Clardy, George M. Jones.
1875. - John S. Clarkson, John Hinton, Dr. William Glenn, Dr. Samuel H. Headlee, John E. Hutton, John A. Flood, Robert F. Lakenan, Luther T. Collier.
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1876-John A. Hockaday, A. W. Lamb.
1877 - Dr. H. H. Middelcamp, John D. Perry.
1878 -Joseph K. Rogers, Wm. H. Lackland.
1879 - Charles C. Bland, John Walker.
1880 - A. M. Millard.
1882 -- John R. Estill, James E. Lincoln.
Entered.
PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD.
Retired.
1839
William Scott, deceased
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1840
1840
Thomas M. Allen, deceased
1843
1843
John Slack, deceased
1843
1843
Warren Woodson, deceased
1848
1848
Caleb S. Stone, deceased .
1850
1850
F. R. Palmer, deceased
1853
1853
Caleb S. Stone, deceased ..
1856
1856
P. H. McBride, deceased .
1860
1860
Wm. H. Allen
1864
1864
Thomas M. Allen, deceased
1865
1865
Moss Prewitt, deceased
1869
1870
James S. Rollins, LL. D., still in office.
The University of the State of Missouri, called in the acts of Con- gress of February 17, 1818, March 6, 1820, January 24, 1827, and March 2, 1827, a " Seminary of Learning," possesses a legislative or legal history which is not only in itself very interesting, but quite essential to a proper understanding of its relations to the Federal and State governments, and of the obligations imposed upon the General Assembly of Missouri to foster and encourage it. It therefore has a history which antedates its location and establishment in the town of Columbia.
It is quite well known and generally understood that the University was founded by a grant of public land made by the United States, in the act of Congress of March 6, 1820, to authorize the people of Mis- souri Territory to form a Constitution and State Government. The sixth section of said act offered to the convention of the Territory of Missouri, for its free acceptance or rejection, five distinct propositions, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States. Among these was the following : -
Fifth. That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the other lands heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a Seminary of learning, and vested in the Legislature of said State, to be appropriated solely to the use of such Seminary by the said Legislature.
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This enactment, made by Congress before the admission of Missouri into the Union, was in accordance with the policy of the General Gov- ernment to aid the States in the work of education by liberal grants of the public domain.
This policy was not only adopted in aid of the bigher education, so-called, but also - and by the act of Congress providing for the ad- mission of Missouri into the Union -for the maintenance of township free public schools.
In the private consideration as well as public discussions of this act, a complication often presented itself, originating in the fact that the act of Congress of March 6, 1820, donated to Missouri only thirty-six sections, or one entire township, whereas the State received, for the use of a " Seminary of Learning," seventy-two sections, or two entire townships. Whence originated this discrepancy, and by what act of Congress, if any, the problem was solved, is not generally known. Nor did our public men and legislators seem to understand, with any distinctness, the phrase, " together with the other lands heretofore reserved for that purpose." What these lands were, what their amount in acres, where situated, and by what act of Congress reserved, seems to have had no distinct or satisfactory solution in the public mind.
Believing it to be our duty thoroughly to explore the field of diffi- culty, and, if possible, clearly to trace the legislative history of the grant, we entered into correspondence, through the courtesy of Hon. F. M. Cockrell, U. S. Senator from Missouri, with the Com- missioner of the General Land Office at Washington. This corre- spondence disclosed the fact, theretofore unknown to the writer, that our Seminary lands, although donated to the State for the purpose mentioned in the act of March 6, 1820, were not selected and con- firmed to the State by that act, but by an act of Congress approved January 24, 1827, as follows (see Chap. V., Second Session Nineteenth Congress ; see fourth vol. Stats. U. S. at Large, page 200) :
ACT OF JANUARY 24, 1827.
"An Act concerning the selection of certain lands, heretofore granted by compact, to the State of Missouri, for seminaries of learning.
"Be it enacted, etc.,
"That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, as soon as may be, to cause to be selected, from any of the public lands of the United States in Missouri, the sale of which is authorized by law, and in quantities not less than a section, accord- ing to the divisional lines of the public surveys, the several townships of land hereto- fore secured by compact to the State of Missouri, for the purposes of a seminary or
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seminaries of learning in that State, and to cause one descriptive list of such selections to be filed with the Governor of Missouri, in the office of the Secretary of that State, and another like list to be filed in the General Land Office of the United States; and the lands so selected shall, immediately thereupon, vest in the State of Missouri, ac- cording to, and in satisfaction of, the above mentioned compact with the United States.
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