LIST OF OFFICERS AND SUBJECTS TAUGHT, UP TO JULY 4, 1889, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI.

Agriculture-G. C. Swallow, Scott Hayes, S. M. Tracy, J. W. Sanborn. Anatomy-E. H. Leffingwell, A. Litton, G. C. Swallow, J. Lock, J. G. Norwood, T. A. Arnold, W. Moss, Jo. N. McDowell, C. W. Stephens, J. T. Hodgen, L. T. Pem, C. A. Todd.

Ancient language-G. C. Pratt. G. H. Matthews, J. Packer, A. G. Wilkison. (See Latin and Greek.)

Art-Gen. George C. Bingham, Conrad Diehl.

Astronomy-(See Mathematics).

Botany-G. C. Swallow, S. Hayes, S. M. Tracy, G. D. Purinton.
Chairman of faculty-J. H. Lathrop, G. H. Matthews.

Chemistry-E. H. Leffingwell, A. Litton, G. C. Swallow, John Lock, J. G. Norwood, P. Schweitzer, J. J. Haden, C. L. Speyers, A. E. Hopson, C. O. Curtman. Deans-Agricultural faculty, G. C. Swallow, J. W. Sanborn; Engineering faculty, T. J. Lowry; Law faculty, P. Bliss; Medical faculty, J. G. Norwood, J. S. Morris; Normal faculty, E. L. Ripley, G. C. Bibb, D. R. McAnally, E. A. Allen. Demonstrator in anatomy-J. H. Duncan, W. Moss, C. A. Todd, J. T. Hodgen, C. W. Stevens.

Diseases of women and children-A. W. McAlester, S. G. Moses, T. Barbour, G. M. B. Maughs.

Drawing-W. Alexander, E. L. Ripley, Conrad Diehl.

Elocution-O. Root, J. K. Hosmer, S. S. Hamill, W. H. Cole.

Engineering-W. W. Hudson, R. W. Johnson, J. W. McMurray, T. J. Lowry. English literature-R. S. Thomas, S. Price, J. J. Jacobs, J. H. Lathrop, J. V. C. Karnes, L. G. Drury, L. B. Williams, G. M. Catron, O. Root. (See English and history).

English and history-J. W. Albert, J. K. Hosmer, S. S. Hamill, W. H. Cole and D. R. McAnally, E. A. Allen.

Entomology--S. M. Tracy.

Geology-(See Mineralogy).

German and French-I. Hainer, A. G. Wilkison, H. N. Ess, O. Root, Miss M. B. Read, J. W. Abert, B. S. Newland, A. Meyrowitz, Mrs. J. P. Fuller, J. S. Blackwell, B. F. Hoffman.

Greek-S. Price, L. B. Williams, J. V. C. Karnes, J. M. Leonard, A. F. Fleet, W. E. Coons.

Hebrew and Semitic literature-A. Meyrowitz, J. S. Blackwell.
Language-W. C. Shields.

Latin-W. C. Shields, J. W. Cowgill, D. W. B. Kurtz, E. H. Twining, W. S. Pratt, M. M. Fisher, J. C. Jones (assist.). (See also Ancient language).

Law, in law school--J. H. Overall, B. Gordon, P. Bliss, R. Fagan, W. J. Babb, F. P. Blair, C. G. Tiedemann, J. A. Yantis.

Law, ethics, and political economy-J. H. Lathrop, J. Shannon, J. J. Jacobs, B. B. Minor. (See Mental, moral, and political philosophy; also Political economy.) Lectures-Entomology, C. V. Riley; Law, S. Treat, A. Krekel, H. S. Kelley, ( Guitar, S. D. Thompson; veterinary surgery, H. J. Detmers, L. J. Smith; Engine ring, G. C. Pratt, V. C. Yantis, J. B. Eads, C. R. Suter.

Librarians-R. S. Thomas, B. S. Head, E. T. Fristoe, J. G. Norwood, S. Hayes, J. H. Drummond, J. W. Monser.

Materia medica A. W. McAlester, J. H. Duncan, R. F. Barret, W. M. McPheters, J. P. Kingsley.

Mathematics and astronomy-W. W. Hudson, B. S. Head, E. T. Fristoe, J. Ficklin. W. B. Smith, T. J. Lowry (astronomical observatory). (See Mechanical philosophy.)

Mathematics-Assistant, R. A. Grant, H. N. Ess, L. G. Drury, J. W. Cowgill, D. W. B. Kurtz, W. A. Cauthorn, W. C. Tindall.

Medical jurisprudence-J. G. Norwood, R. F. Barret, A. Hopson.

Mental, moral, and political philosophy-D. Read. (See Metaphysics.)

Metaphysics-R. S. Thomas, J. J. Jacobs, B. B. Minor, J. H. Lathrop, S. S.

Laws.

Military science and tactics-Gen. R. W. Johnson, Capt. R. B. Wade, Maj. J. W. McMurray, Lieut. F. P. Blair, Lieut. J. J. Haden, Lieut. E. H. Crowder, Lieut. B. B. Buck.

Mineralogy and geology-E. H. Leffingwell, A. Litton, G. C. Swallow, J. Lock, J. G. Norwood, J. W. Spencer, G. C. Broadhead.

Natural science-G. M. Catron, J. G. Norwood.

Normal-S. Price, E. H. Haight, D. W. B. Kurtz. (See Pedagogy.)

Pedagogy (see Normal)—E. L. Ripley, G. C. Bibb, D. R. McAnally, E. A. Allen. Physics—W. H. Hudson, E. T. Fristoe, J. G. Norwood, B. F. Thomas, W. B. Smith, M. Thompson, M. L. Lipscomb; assistant professors, T. J. Lowry, W. H. Schuermann, A. A. Fuller.

Physiology-E. H. Leffingwell, A. Litton, G. C. Swallow, J. Lock, J. G. Norwood, J. H. Duncan, Woodson Moss, R. F. Barret, G. Bremer.

Pomology and forestry-George Husmann.

Practice of medicine-T. A. Arnold, J. H. Duncan, J. F. Hanna, J. S. Moore, P. G. Robinson.

President J. H. Lathrop, W. W. Hudson, J. Shannon, G. H. Matthews, B. B. Minor, J. H. Lathrop, D. Read, S. S. Laws.

Primary instructors-W. H. Buckner, W. A. Thompson, W. C. Dawson, Miss M. B. Read, J. G. Anderson, E. Penter, Miss L. M. Wylie, Miss S. A. Ware, Miss L. Gillette, W. L. Pratt, C. L. Buckmaster, Miss L. Bedford.

Principal primary department—J. J. Searcy, C. H. Crowell, Mrs. C. Ripley. Secretary, since 1867-O. Root, G. C. Swallow, E. H. Twining, Paul Schweitzer, T. J. Lowry, J. C. Jones.

Surgery-A. W. McAlester, J. G. Broome (lecturer), J. N. McDowell, James McDowell, J. T. Hodgen, P. Tuholske, T. F. Prewitt.

Veterinary science-Paul Paquin.

Obstetrics-T. Barbour, S. G. Moses, G. M. B. Maughs, G. A. Moses, A. W. McAlester.

SCHOOL OF MINES AT ROLLA, MO., ESTABLISHED 1872.

Charles P. Williams, A. M., Ph. D., director; professor general chemical metallurgy; resigned.

James W. Abert, professor civil engineering and drawing

1872

Nelson W. Allen, A. B., professor pure mathematics, secretary faculty; resigned.
William E. Glenn, M. D., professor anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.
William Couch, instructor in English

John H. Gill, librarian.

Geo. D. Emerson, professor civil and mining engineering.

Robert W. Douthat. A. M., Ph. D., professor English, secretary of faculty.
James S. Yantis, assistant professor mathematics, librarian

Almond W. Hare, M. E., assistant in preparatory department and chemical laboratory

Van Court Yantis, professor of mathematics and librarian

Chas. E. Wait, C. E., M. E. director, professor analytical chemistry.
Edwin J. Jolley, adjunct professor of mathematics, librarian.
Miss Florence Whiting, assistant preparatory department.
T. C. Thomas, T. E., adjunct professor of mathematics
Prof. Z. Whitney. A. M.. LL. B., professor of mathematics

J. M. Morris, A. M., professor of physics and natural history
Victoria G. Conkling, assistant in preparatory department
E. D. W. Eaton, B. S. professor of mathematics

W. G. Clark, B. S., assistant in mathematics and chemistry, and secretary of faculty

1884

E. A. Drake, A. B.. instructor in English branches.

1884

Chapter II.

CENTRAL COLLEGE, FAYETTE, MISSOURI.

(Under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.)

By T. BERRY SMITH.

INTRODUCTION.

It may be said, as far as human experience goes, that "every consequent has its antecedents." This is true of Central College, and in order that the story of these interesting antecedents may be preserved and give added interest to the history of the institution itself, it is deemed proper to preface a sketch of the college with an outline of educational matters, both in Fayette and in the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Missouri.

We have no written documents regarding educational work in Fayette from thirty-five to fifty years ago, but we do have the memories of hale, though gray-headed, men who yet abide with us, and from them many interesting facts have been obtained.

From some recollections furnished by Judge A. J. Herndon the following is quoted:

When I came to Fayette in 1835 there was a 2-room, 1-story brick building just a little south and west of where Central now stands, called Fayette Academy. Archibald Patterson, a man of classical attainments and quite successful as a teacher, was in charge. To him Fayette and the county owe a debt of gratitude. His great ambition was to have here a college of high grade, and he labored assiduously to that end. Doubtless largely through his influence a more imposing edifice than his little red schoolhouse was begun on the site where Central College stands to-day. The work progressed slowly, and was not entirely completed when in February, 1838, the building caught fire from a stove on the first floor and was burned. Subscription lists were prepared and circulated, money subscribed, and in process of time contracts were made and the work of rebuilding commenced.

The work on the building above referred to-2 stories, with 4 imposing columns in front-was pushed to external completion about the year 1840, because it was about that time that the State of Missouri advertised for bids for the location of her State university. Howard County, of which Fayette is the capital, took a lively interest in the contest for location, and made a large bid ($94,000). The citizens of

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Fayette, foreseeing the purpose of the State and hoping to secure the location of the university, had given freely of their means to complete a stately building as an additional inducement. The hoped-for end was not attained.* The prize was borne off by a neighboring county (Boone), as appears in the history of the State university.

After that the work on the building lagged, and the interior work was not all done when the contractors had it sold on December 6, 1844. It fell into the hands of Capt. William D. Swinney, an enterprising citizen of Howard County, by whom, in course of time, it was transferred under most generous conditions to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for school purposes.

In the meantime Professor Patterson had been called to other fields of labor and had left Fayette. He went first to Palmyra, to Marion College, which was shortly afterwards removed to Lexington, and was transferred with it. †

In the fall of 1844 the doors of the little red schoolhouse were again thrown open and a school was begun with only 7 pupils, which was destined to become the mother of the 2 colleges that stand in Fayette to-day-Central, and Howard Female.

“William T. Lucky, just graduated from McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., came with his young wife, Mary Scarritt, to Fayette in the summer of 1844, both animated by an intense desire to do honorable and Christian work. He taught his classes by day, and during leisure hours and often by night assisted to complete the college building. The energy and practical management which Mr. Lucky gave this school soon bore its fruit, and in less than two years the old building, roomy as it was, was thronged with students, and the family accommodations of the town and vicinity were fully taxed to accommodate pupils from abroad." Mr. Lucky had been joined ere this by his brother-in-law, Nathan Scarritt, a man destined to play an important part in educational matters in Fayette and to become the first president of Central College. They organized Howard High School.

On October 6, 1847, the large building and its grounds were conveyed by Captain Swinney and wife to Wesley S. Green, Joseph Sears, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Monroe, and Abiel Leonard, as joint tenants, in trust for a public institution of learning, to be under the

* Because, as is credibly stated by 2 old citizens of Fayette, the commissioners on the road from Fayette to Columbia were met by men from Boone, who found out what Howard had subscribed, and hurried back and increased their own subscription enough to beat Howard.

This institution was the predecessor of what is now known as Central Female College, bearing the same relation to Methodism in Missouri that Central College does as a male school. Central Female College is a school of high grade, is well equipped with buildings and appliances, employs a large and able faculty, has a full attendance, and is doing excellent work in the cause of Christian education. From the address of Rev. C. W. Pritchett, delivered at the corner-stone laying of Centenary Chapel in 1883.

control and government of the conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Missouri. The Howard High School of Lucky and Scarritt was transferred into the new organization, and thus became identified with the interests of Southern Methodism in the State, and hence "the mother of both Central College and of Howard Female College." In the progress and growth of Howard High School Professor Lucky had a noble band of coworkers.

Professor Pritchett says: "It was a striking indication of the foresight and administrative ability of Mr. Lucky that so early he called around him, and united heart and hand in this work, such men as Hon. Abiel Leonard, Hon. Joseph Davis, Claiborne F. Jackson, Samuel C. Major, Henry W. Kring, Dr. John A. Talbot, Rev. Thomas Johnson, Rev. Andrew Monroe, Rowland Hughes, Adam Hendrix, Francis E. Williams, and C. C. P. Hill. He mentions also, as contemporaries or successors to these, Gen. John B. Clark, Judge Alfred W. Morrison, Andrew J. Herndon, and G. M. B. Maughs, M. D.

Again, he says: "I have often heard it said, to the credit of Fayette and vicinity, that it is a unit for its schools, and this unanimity of feeling and action is due in no small degree to the personal and social position of the men who watched over this school more than thirty years ago."

About 1848 Mr. Scarritt retired from the school to enter the active ministry, and Prof. William T. Davis became connected with the work of education in Fayette. The school continued to grow in favor, both at home and abroad, and outgrew all others in the State, insomuch that there was pressing need for larger accommodations for teaching and for boarding. In 1851 Rev. C. W. Pritchett became connected with Howard High School, and he says: "About 1852 the school was very prosperous, having an annual enrollment of about 350 pupils."

In September, 1851, the Missouri Conference met at Fayette in annual session, Bishop Capers presiding, and became better acquainted with the good name of Howard High School, the property of which, as we have already seen, had been conveyed to certain joint tenants, in trust, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. So favorably impressed was the conference that Rev. J. F. Riggs was appointed a special agent to raise funds to be used in the erection of a boarding house. This house was built in 1852, and in the fall of 1853 President Lucky, with family and a large number of boarders, was domiciled in it. It constitutes at the present date the front portion of Howard Female College.

But out of the conference of 1851 and the formal action taken in regard to the immediate facilities of Howard High School, there grew impulses to more extended action in educational matters in the Church. A general educational convention of the whole Methodist Church, South, in Missouri, was convened in the city of St. Louis on the 13th