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Mrs. J. P. Fuller, Professor of French and German, has also re- signed and her duties will be discharged by members of the present faculty.
It was ordered that the title of S. M. Tracy shall be Professor of Entomology and Economic Botany and Superintendent of Gardens, and that the title of George Hussmann shall be Professor and Super- intendent of Pomology and Forestry.
Meeting January 13, 1880. - At 9 o'clock A. M. on Wednesday, - a meeting of the Curators, Faculty, students and visitors was held in the chapel for the purpose of hearing the inaugural addresses of A. F. Fleet, Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology, and of James S. Blackwell, Professor of Hebrew and of Shemitic Literature.
On Wednesday morning a large audience again assembled in the chapel to hear the inaugural addresses of Conrad Diehl, Professor of Art, and of Frank P. Blair, Professor of Military Science. The ad- dress of Prof. Blair was well delivered and received with marked ap- plause. His subject was the Military and War Powers of the United States Government, which he treated under three heads : 1. The in- ception and conduct of war. 2. The land and naval forces. 3. The State Militia. Short addresses were then made by John Walker, of
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Howard, one of the Curators, and Cols. E. C. More and W. F. Switzler.
Following this was the deeply interesting ceremony of presenting the portrait of Judge David Todd, for many years an eminent citizen of Columbia, and distinguished jurist of Missouri -the portrait being the first painted by the late George C. Bingham, more than forty years ago. It was a present to the University from Mr. George W. Samuel, of St. Joseph. Also short addresses by Maj. Rollins and Dr. Laws.
The thanks of the Board, on motion of Mr. Dockery, were tendered to President Laws for his munificent donation of $500, by means of which the Curators were enabled, in exchange for the old telescope, to possess the very superior and well known telescope of the Shelby Graded School, of Shelbyville, Kentucky.
DEATH OF PROF. GEORGE C. BINGHAM.
George C. Bingham, Professor of Art, having died in Kansas City on July 8, 1879, Mr. Rollins presented resolutions, which were passed, bearing testimony to his eminence and usefulness as a citizen, and to- his extraordinary genius in the world of art.
Meeting May 31, 1880 .- Chair of Emeritus Professor of Physics was created, and Joseph G. Norwood was made Emeritus Professor of Physics and of Medical Jurisprudence and Dean of the Medical Col- lege, at a salary of $1,000 per annum. The recommendations of Professors B. F. Thomas and Thomas W. Tobin for the chair of Physics were referred to the Executive Committee, who elected Mr. Thomas.
RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT LAWS.
The term for which President Laws was elected expiring on July 4, 1880, he was unanimousty re-elected President of the University, no term of office being specified. A communication was received from Prof. Ficklin touching the new telescope and observatory pre- sented by President Laws, in which he recommended that it be called " The Laws Observatory ;" that an annual prize, consisting of a gold medal, and designated " The Laws Astronomical Medal," be estab- lished for excellence in higher astronomy, and that the portrait of Dr. Laws be painted and hung in the Observatory. All of which was ordered by the Board, the medal to contain a device of the Observa- tory, and the inscription, " The heavens declare the glory of God,"
LAWS OBSERVATORY, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY.
Photo Ereg Co
CHALYBEATE SPRING, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY.
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and a medallion likeness of the donor, and the words " Missouri State University -The S. S. Laws Astronomical Medal."
D. R. McAnally, Professor of English, placed $200 in the hands of the Board, in trust, for the purpose of establishing the " McAnally Prize for English," which was accepted and the thanks of the Board returned.
Meeting May 30, 1881 .- F. P. Blair was elected Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, and Mrs. O. A. Carr Principal of the Ladies' Department and Adjunct Professor of English.
SALE OF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE LANDS.
In September, 1881, the Board of Curators very fortunately suc- ceeded in effecting a sale of 147,522 acres of the Agricultural College land to Geo. H. Nettleton, of Kansas City, President of the Kansas City and Little Rock Railroad, for $208,328-$1.41 per acre. These lands were situated in five counties in the southern part of the State, bordering on Arkansas, and are as follows : -
Counties.
Acres.
Price.
Howell County.
74,047.61 $104,051.05
Douglass County
44,301.68
64,542.36
Ozark County.
11,523.11
16,553.04
Oregon County
7,832.26
9,790.32
Texas County ..
9,817.45
13,392.04
Total number of acres sold.
147,522.01 $208,328.81
Average price per acre, $1 41.
These are a portion of the lands granted by the United States Gov- ernment to the State of Missouri, under the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862.
Meeting January 10, 1882 .- A quorum not present. On motion of Mr. Rollins it was resolved that the proceedings of the Executive Committee, on behalf of the Board, and also of the faculty and stu- dents, which were had in the chapel on September 21, 1881, and also the memorial services which were held in the chapel September 26, 1881, together with the resolutions passed, and the correspondence growing out of the same, be spread upon the record.
Meeting May 29, 1882 .- Among the resolutions passed was the following, offered by Mr. Switzler :-
WHEREAS, for many years past this institution has been compelled to use an old cracked
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bell, , the sound of which has become familiar to the ears of hundreds of students and friends of the University, and grates harshly on the ears of all; and
WHEREAS, Hon. J. S. Rollins, the President of this board, alive now, as he has been for nearly a half a century, to the best interests of the University, has generously presented to it a large new bell, beautiful in tone and appearance, and bearing appropriate in- scriptions, therefore be it
Resolved, that we gratefully accept the gift, as one much needed and very valuable, and hereby tender the public-spirited donor the thanks of the board, hoping he may long live to realize that it will in truth
"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring out the false, ring in the true."
The bell was manufactured by the celebrated Maneely Bell Com- pany, of Troy, N. Y., will weigh 2,000 pounds, cost about $800, and bears the following inscriptions :-
1882. Presented by Hon. James S. Rollins, LL. D., President of the Board of Cura- tors of the University of the State of Missouri.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring out the false, ring in the true. Nunc occasio est et tempus.
The salary of B. F. Thomas, Professor of Physics, was fixed at $2,000 a year.
Meeting June 12, 1882 .- Present : J. S. Rollins, of Boone ; J. C. Cravens of Greene ; Jas. Lincoln, of Clay ; J. R. Estill, of Howard ; W. H. Lackland, of St. Louis, and J. S. Clarkson and W. F. Switzler, of Boone. Absent : A. M. Millard and Charles C. Bland, of Rolla.
During most of the time the board was in executive session and therefore results and not the reasons for them are known to the public. It is known, however, that unfortunate misunderstandings had arisen between President Laws and Professor Swallow, and that in reference to some of the phases of them, most of the professors of the various departments of the institution, including the Presi- dent and Professor Swallow, were requested to come before the board and make oral statements, such of the professors as were necessarily absent leaving statements in writing.
Those who made verbal statements before the Board were the fol- lowing : President Laws, Professors Swallow, Fleet, Tracy, McAnally, Ficklin, Schweitzer and Lowry. Also, the Treasurer, R. B. Price. The Professors who were absent and left written statements were Fisher, Blackwell and Thomas. Also the Medical Faculty.
Among other matters of public interest, the chair occupied by Geo. C. Swallow, Professor of Agriculture and Natural History and Dean
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of the Agricultural Faculty, was declared vacant after the 31st inst., and the Executive Committee was authorized temporarily to fill the same.
The salary of Conrad Diehl, Professor of Art, was raised to $2,000 per annum.
Boyle Gordon, Professor of the Law Faculty, tendered his resigna- tion, which was accepted with regret, whereupon C. G. Tiedeman, hitherto Professor of Law, was made Professor at a salary of $1,200.
The $500 note of Hon. James L. Stephens, given to the Board of Curators several years ago, the interest on which was annually appro- priated to pay for the " Stephens' Medal" in oratory, was surrendered to him on his depositing with the Treasurer a $500 Boone county six per cent. bond, No. 338.
The Treasurer of the Board, R. B. Price, gave a new bond, with approved securities, in the sum of' $350,000.
The claim of J. W. Sutherland, of St. Louis, ex-Agricultural Land Commissioner for five per cent commission on the sale of more than two hundred thousand acres of land to C. H. Nettleton, was rejected.
CURATOR ABSENCES.
On motion of Mr. Switzler, the following resolution was adopted : -
Resolved, That the Secretary be required to prepare a book so arranged as to contain the names of all the Curators of the University, showing the date of expiration of their com- missions; that he be required to note therein the failure to attend of any members of the Board any annual, semi-annual or regular called meeting of the Board; and to certify to the Governor the fact of such failure to attend; and to notify the members so failing to attend that such failure has been certified to the Governor.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Board that any fact which will prevent the vacating of his office, by such failure to attend, must be stated to the Governor.
ENDORSEMENT OF PRESIDENT LAWS.
On motion of Mr. Lincoln, of Clay, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted :
WHEREAS, A large uumber of witnesses have been examined by the Board of Curators, including many members of the Faculty connected with the State University, touching the management and prosperity of the institution during the last seventeen years, and especially under the management of Dr. Laws during the last six years ; and
WHEREAS, All of said testimony is to the effect that Dr. Laws is well qualified and pecu- liarly fitted to preside as President over the State University, and to establish the fact that said institution was never in so prosperous a condition as during the last six years ; and
WHEREAS, Said evidence further shows that President Laws has not only given his time and talents, but largely of his own private means, for the advancement of said institution dur- ing his connection therewith; therefore, be it
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Resolved, 1, That in the opinion of the Board the continued prosperity of the State- University demands the continued services of Dr. Laws as its President, and we earnestly and unanimously request that he will not sever his connection with it.
2. That we would deem his resignation a calamity to the institution and to the best interests of the State.
PROF. SWALLOW'S SUCCESSOR.
On July 14, 1882, the Executive Committee - Clarkson and Switz- zer ; Rollins sick and absent - of the Curators of the University, to. whom the duty was assigned of filling the vacancy, elected J. W. Sanborn, of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture, Dean of the- Agricultural College of Missouri, to fill the place formerly occupied: by Prof. Geo. C. Swallow.
CHAPTER VIII.
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY FROM 1840 TO 1850.
Rocheport Whig Convention - Columbia Institute - Agricultural Fair of 1841 - A plain "Mr." made a plain "Col." - A man in a well -Death of two Bonne Femme College students- Law cards-Fourth of July celebration, 1842 -Stibb's Academy, Rocheport- Great religious revival - "New Cash Store"-Two citizens accidentally killed - The- murder of Hiram Beasley and the execution of Henry and America- Henry's confession - Improvement of Broadway, Columbia - It is a monument to Dr. Jewell - Militia mus- ters -The great freshet of 1844 - Providence founded - Presidential election of 1844- Liquor prohibition foreshadowed -Colonization societies-Boone County taxes in 1845- Missouri annual conference - The new Court House -The Mexican war - A flag pre- sented to the " Boone Guards" - A public dinner tendered the Mexican volunteers on their return - The State Lunatic Asylum - The Globe newspaper established - Religious revivals- Sons of Temperance celebration - General Taylor elected and Columbia in a blaze -Columbia Female Collegiate Institute - The big sleet - California gold fever - Names of the emigrants.
ELECTION RETURNS FROM 1840 TO 1850.
* Those thus marked were elected.
AUGUST 8TH, 1840.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
Edw. M. Samuel,
George C. Sibley, (Whig) ... .1,042 (Whig) .. .1,042 *John Miller,
(Democrat) ..... 567
*John C. Edwards, (Democrat) .... 567 GOVERNOR.
John B. Clark .... 1,038 | *Thos. Reynolds, 595
LIEUTENANT - GOVERNOR.
Joseph Bogy .... 1,038 | *M. M. Marmaduke, 569.
Total. .1,603
REPRESENTATIVES IN LEGISLATURE.
*D. M. Hickman, 1,006 *George Knox. .... 1,009 *Jas. S. Rollins .. 995 Jos. W. Hickam, 425 *Alex. Persinger .. 911 *Tyre Harris ...
922 Total .1,653
John M. Roberts, 382
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ELECTION RETURNS - Continued.
Special election for Senator, to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Thomas C. Mau- pin :
*Sinclair Kirtley . . 971 | Joseph Persinger, 544 Total. .1,515
NOVEMBER 9TH, 1840.
Special election for Senator to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Archibald W. Tur- ner:
*Hiram Philips ... 546 | John M. McGhee, 32 Alex.M.Robinson, 307
Total. 885
'AUGUST 4TH, 1842.
SENATOR.
*Tyre Harris. 938 | Joseph Persinger, 743
Total. 1,676
REPRESENTATIVES IN LEGISLATURE.
*William Smith ... 956 Richard M. May, 842 *Mat'w R. Arnold, 845 *Wm. Rowland ... 1,102 Wm. A. Robards .. 734
AUGUST 5TH, 1844.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
*Leonard H. Sims, 853 Thos. B. Hudson, 845 John Thornton ... 828 Augustus Jones .. 828 *Sterling Price .... 511 *Jas. B. Bowling .. 518 *James H. Relfe .. 510 *John S. Phelps ... 412 Ratlif Boone .. 829 *John Jamison .... 439
GOVERNOR.
*John C. Edwards, 572 | Charles H. Allen, 1,030
Total 1,602
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
*John C. Young .... 550 | Wm. B. Almond .. 955
Total. 1,505
REPRESENTATIVES IN LEGISLATURE.
*George Knox .... 1.061 |*Wm. Jewell ..... 956 *Sinclair Kirtley .. 1,029 Charles Gordon, 661 George S. Waters, 732 James Schooling 170 SHERIFF.
*Thos. C. Maupin, 840 | W. T. Hickman .. 521 John W. Yeldell .. 466 Total. 1,827
AUGUST 9TH, 1845.
DELEGATES TO STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CON - VENTION.
*David Hickman .... 842 |*John F. Stone .... 881 John M. Robinson. . 676 -
AUGUST 12TH, 1846. REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
*John G. Miller ... 1,126 | James S. Green .. 706 Total. 1,828
SENATOR. *James S. Rollins, 1,115 | Fayette F. Kirby, 593
Total.
.1,708
REPRESENTATIVE IN LEGISLATURE.
*Wm. F. Switzler, 1,032 | J. L. Matthews .. 691
Total.
1,723
SHERIFF. *T. C. Maupin ...... 1,545 | No opposition.
AUGUST 10TH, 1847. CIRCUIT CLERK.
*Robert L. Todd. . 1,558 | No opposition. COUNTY CLERK. *Warren Woodson, 922 | James Arnold ... 769 Total. .1,691
AUGUST 14TH, 1848.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
Robert Wilson ..... 1,221 | *Jas. S. Green ... 787
Total
.2,008
GOVERNOR.
James S. Rollins .... 1,257 | *Austin A. King, 791
Total. .2,047
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Littleberry
Hen -
*Thos. L. Price .. 778
dricks.
.1,250
Total.
.2,028
REPRESENTATIVE IN LEGISLATURE.
*Wm. F. Switzler .. 1,143 | Wm. A. Robards 830 Total. .1,973
SHERIFF. *Wm. T. Hickman 986 Garland Harris .. 818 Milton Sexton .... 205 Total .. .2,009
1840 - Population of the County
13,561
ROCHEPORT WHIG CONVENTION.
" Switzler's History of Missouri " says : " The Presidential canvass of 1840, Martin Van Buren, of New York, being the Democratic, and William Henry Harrison, of Ohio, the Whig candidate, excited unex- ampled interest and enthusiasm in every State in the Union. In the closely contested States the people seemed to abandon all business, and devote their entire time and energies to the pending election.
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Mass conventions of unprecedented members were held, in some in- stances remaining in session for several days, which were addressed by distinguished speakers whose object seemed to be to influence the popular enthusiasm and carry the election by music, banners, proces- sions and stump oratory. Some of the Whig out-door meetings in the Ohio Valley numbered a hundred thousand and were addressed by General Harrison in person. At these monster assemblages min- iature log cabins and veritable coons and hard cider were displayed, and campaign songs sung, exciting the wildest enthusiasm; so that that the contest took the name of the 'Log Cabin, Coon Skin and Hard Cider Campaign.'
" To counteract the influence of the meetings and the party para- phernalia employed by the Whigs to captivate the masses, the friends of Mr. Van Buren held their conventions also, and, invoking the name and influence of ' Old Hickory,' who ardently supported him for the presidency, adopted hickory boughs and the chicken-cock as their party emblems, the former gracefully waving and the latter defiantly crowing everywhere.
" The Whigs and Democrats of Missouri caught the prevailing en- thusiasm, and conducted the canvass with unusual spirit. Mass con- ventions, accompanied by the splendid pageantry of processions, brilliant banners and martial music, to say nothing of political discus- sions unexcelled in fervid eloquence, abounded everywhere. The State was wild with excitement, and many and interesting and graphic are the scenes which our older citizens are able to recall of the cam- paign of 1840.
" The most memorable, because the largest and most elaborately prepared convention of the contest in Missouri, was the Whig Con- vention, held at Rocheport, in Boone County, in June of that year. Its place of meeting was on the hill east of the town, in a dense grove of sugar trees, where three speakers' stands were erected, and where for three days and nights the friends of ' Tippecanoe and Tyler, too,' held high carnival and bid defiance to the absent hosts of Van Buren and Johnson. During its session the assembled thousands were addressed by Chilton Allen, of Kentucky, Fletcher Webster (a son of Daniel Webster), Gen. A. W. Doniphan, James H. Birch, Abiel Leonard, James S. Rollins, Col. John O'Fallon, James Winston, George C. Bingham and others."
The weather was most propitious for an out-door assemblage, and the number present was variously estimated from six to ten thousand. Con-
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sidering the utter lack of railroads or other more modern methods of communication and travel, and that the total population of the State was less than 400,000 and the entire Whig vote less than 23,000, the Rocheport convention was a " monster meeting," the fire and enthusi- asm and incidents of which will never be forgotten by those who attended it.
Three steamboats full of delegates came from St. Louis, bearing field pieces and banners and flags and bands of music, and exciting the wildest enthusiasm at every landing. The flag-steamer of the fleet displayed a large bust portrait of Gen. Harrison, (" Old Tip."), the sight of which, when the boat touched the shore at Rocheport, moved the assembled thousands with uncontrollable enthusiasm, that found expression in shouts of rapture.
Barring the display of martial uniforms and of fire-arms, the plan- tation and hills, on which the convention was held, had the appear- ance of a military encampment, for tents and covered wagons were to be seen in large numbers, for the Whig uprising for " Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," continued three days and nights.
Among the exciting incidents of the occasion, it may be mentioned that one of the delegations, which came overland from a neighboring county, numbered several hundred persons on horseback, and making the welkin ring as they marched, displayed at the head of the column a banner on which was painted a bust portrait of Thomas H. Benton, United States Senator from Missouri, from the folds of whose cravat protruded the corner of a ten dollar bank note, the caricature intend- ing to symbolize an alleged indiscretion of young Benton when a student at Chapel Hill College, North Carolina. The sight of this banner was a red flag to the few Democrats who happened to be pres- ent, exciting them furiously, and causing them to denounce the cari- cature, in which many of the older and more conservative Whigs joined, as an unworthy exhibition of party malignity.
Among the Democrats present was Judge Robbins, of Illinois, a gentleman of prominence and a speaker. By some means it became noised about the encampment, producing no little excitement, that Robbins was an Abolitionist, an epithet which signified at that time in Central Missouri the sum of all villainies. Indeed, it subjected a. man who wore it to the humiliation of open insult, if not to the perils of personal violence.
Hearing that his name was associated with this charge, and observ- ing that it was creating something of a sensation in the crowd,
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Judge Robbins finally asked and obtained leave to occupy the main stand for a few minutes in a personal explanation. He met the charge defiantly and denied its truth in toto.
Nevertheless, the Democrats, as usual, carried the State, elect- ing Thomas Reynolds, Governor, over John B. Clark, and Van Buren over the Harrison electors, by about 7,500 majority. John Miller and John C. Edwards were also elected to Congress over E. M. Samuel and George C. Sibley.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE.
During the winter of 1841 there was organized in Columbia a Lyceum and Debating Club of the above title, which held its meetings in the Union Church. Its exercises were largely attended, and con- sisted of debates and lectures. Its active members were : Milton Cornelius, John F. Stone, Dr. T. R. H. Smith, Wm. A. Robards, Dr. W. B. Lenoir, Lewis W. Robinson, Milton S. Matthews, John R. Bedford, F. T. Russell, Wm. T. B. Sangford, Chas. H. Hardin, Dr. A. J. McKelway, Wm. F. Switzler and others. Among the ques- tions discussed were : "Is Phrenology true ?" " Does conscience, more than law, restrain man from crime?" " Does the geographical situation or the institutions of a country have the greater influence in the formation of national character?" " Is conscience innate?" " Should usury laws be abolished ?" " Is novel-reading beneficial ?"
Among the lectures delivered were the following : A Geological Dis- course by President J. H. Lathrop ; The Unfading Beauty of Knowledge Contrasted with the Mutability of Human Grandness and Greatness, by John F. Stone ; Eulogy on Gen. Harrison, by Wm. F. Switzler ; A Lecture, by Prof. Wm. Van Doran ; " The Knowledge which should be Possessed by Practicing Physicians of the present day," by Dr. T. R. H. Smith ; A Lecture, by Prof. John Roche ; " The Superiority of Moral and Intellectual Power to Arbitrary Sway," by John R. Bed- ford; Lecture, by Dr. W. B. Lenoir ; Lecture, by Dr. J. C. Page ; Lecture, by Dr. A. J. McKelway.
Lectures were also delivered, during the existence of the Institute, by the following: R. L Todd, Thos. P. Giles, William T. Davis, S. A. Young, G. C. Pratt, Prof. Leffingwell, James Winston, James B. Thomas, Rev. Z. N. Roberts, and others.
This institute continued its sessions during the fall and winter for several years, and contributed its part to the literary enjoyments of Columbia and vicinity.
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BOONE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR - 1841.
In a previous chapter we gave an account of the initial exhibition of the society under whose auspices another Fair was held in Columbia on October 4 and 5, 1841. Our farmer readers and stock raisers will be interested in the premiums offered, especially if they will contrast the meagre list with the premiums of our present Agricultural Fair. The total amount of premiums is only $110, whereas our present Agricultural Fair Association offers a number of premiums which sin- gly equal and some of them treble that amount.
STOCK FAIR.
[Columbia Patriot, August 21, 1841.]
The Boone County Agricultural Fair will take place in Columbia on the 4th and 5th days of October next, at which time premiums worth the following sums will be awarded to the following description of stock and agricultural products, viz. : -
Best boar pig under 6 months' old . $5 00
Best sow pig under 6 months' old . 5 00
Best sow pig over 6 and under 12
months . 00
Best boar over 12 months 10 00
Best sow over 12 months
Best sucking bull calf 10 00
5 00
Best sucking heifer calf
5 00
Best year old jack 10 00
Best one year old bull
5 00
Best year old jennet
10 00
Best one year old heifer 5 00
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