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SKETCHES OF PARIS
CHAPTER IV.
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BOURBON ACADEMY.
The
Bourbon Academy was established by a special
act of the Legislature on the 22d of
December, 1798, with Wm. Garrard,
David Purviance, Augustine Eastin, John
Edwards, Andrew Todd, John Allen, Wm. Kelly,
Thomas Jones, Sen., Hugh Brent, John
Metcalf, Alexander Barnett, James Brown,
Sr., Barton W. Stone, James Matson and
James Kenney, as the original trustees,
and to the exertions of these gentlemen, and
the munificence of the State - she having
donated six thousand acres of unappropriated
lands - our now formidable institution owes
its existence.
The trustees met, pursuant to
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H. Lockhart, from '68
to '71; W. E. Clark, from '71 to 73;
Ben D. Best, from '73 to '74; S.
Puckett was appointed in '74, and is the
present incumbent, who is assisted at this
time by the following: Miss Ada J.
Harned, Miss Sallie Mitchell, Miss Jessie
Tipton, Miss Belle Croxton and Mrs.
A. B. Clay. Prof. E. Amende
is teacher of music. Thus it will be
seen that the Bourbon Academy has
experienced numerous and various changes,
but it to-day stands upon a firmer and more
solid foundation than ever before marked its
history. With its able corps of
teachers, its commodious and well equipped
buildings, and its two hundred and twenty
enrolled scholars, it stands in the front
rank along with the Public Schools of the
State.
It would hardly be justice to the very efficient School
Board, under whose supervision the four
thousand dollar addition to the building has
been made the past year, and whose energetic
labors in behalf of the school have done so
much toward making it the creditable
institution that it is, if we failed to
mention them in this connection. The
following are the gentlemen comprising the
Board:
W. W. MASSIE,
Chairman.
H. HARRY BRENT,
DR. JOS. FITHIAN,
H. M. RUCKER,
HENRY SPEARS,
JAS. M. THOMAS,
JAMES PATON, Clerk. |
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