Standard History Of Knoxville Tennessee With Full Outline Of The Natural Advantages

Author : William Rule
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230398716
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Standard History of Knoxville, Tennessee; with Full Outline of the Natural Advantages, Early Settlement, Territorial Government, Indian Troubles, And written by William Rule and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. EDUCATIONAL MATTERS. The Schools of a Century Ago--Rev. Samuel Doak, the Pioneer--Interest Manifested by Governor Blount--Blount College, Now the University of Tennessee--Knoxville Female Academy--Hampden Sidney Academy--Organization and Success of City Schools--University School--Knoxville College for Colored Students--Tennessee Medical College. THE first school established in Tennessee was named Martin Academy, founded under an act "for the promotion of learning in the county of Washington," which was passed by the general assembly of North Carolina in 1785. The founder and first president of this pioneer institution of learning was Rev. Samuel Doak, who is mentioned at some length in the chapter on religious history in this volume. He was a graduate of what was then known as Nassau Hall, now Princeton College. He was a member of the Franklin Assembly, was a man of great ability, force of character and learning, especially in the classics, as was usual with educated men in those days, and most men in the Presbyterian ministry, even in those days, were educated men. For many years his school was the only seat of classical learning west of the Alleghanies, and for a still longer period it was the principal seat of this kind of learning in that portion of the country. His school-house, a plain log building, which he erected on his farm, was near Jonesboro, a little west of the site afterward selected for Washington Academy, which became Washington College. It was near this academy that Rev. Mr. Doak established Salem Congregation, one of the first, if not the first, church in Tennessee. Upon being appointed governor of the new territory of Tennessee. William Blount immediately removed his family to his new field of activity, ...