Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-05-04
r R FOR HARDIN!
Ex-Gov. C. II. Hardin Donates $4,000
More to the Use of Hardin College,
An "Andrew Harper'' Professorship
Added.

most liberal minded and puDnc splr- n
ted men on earth, now comes for c
ward and donates nearly $500 for v
the benefit of this noble institution, i
which will be always n among the G
many monuments to Hardin's gener- l
osity, and the good he does with his
money. The following document t
presented to Board of Hardin College
explains itself:
Know all men by these presents that,
whereas, Andrew Harper, late OF st.
Louis county, Missouri, died interstate,
July 27th, 1864, leaving a widow, Mrs. A.
j. Harper (the sister of the undersigned
Charles H. Harding, and an only child, a
son, Andrew Harper, and a fair property,
especially in real estate, which was divid-
ed equally between Mrs. Harper and her
son. Mrs. Harper died August 18th, 1868,
and the son became possessed by devise
of quite all her estate. Andrew Harper,
sr., the head of this family, was born and
raised in Scott county, Kentucky, and
settled in the city of St. Louis, Missouri,
about 1910, where he engaged mainly Il
mandatory. After a few years, prefer
ring the quiet and surroundings OF a
country life, he established a farm in the
Florisant Valley in the county of St. Louis,
deyoting his time generally to farming
and the growth of fruits. He served the
State in the Legislature, and took an
active interest in the organization OF the
ASYLUM of the State for the education of
the blind. He also served the State in
several other capacities, of which may be
noted that of one term as President OF
the St. Louis County Agricultural and
Mechanical Association, and one or more
terms as a Director in the North Missouri
Railway Company. He was a Jealous
advocate of the colonization of negro
slaves on the coast of Liberia, and about
Is47, illustrated the faith he entertained
by the manumission of all his slaves,
about thirty in number, and furnished
them a complete outfit for their homes in
Liberia. All went except four or five of
the older ones. Those that went founded
a colony to themselves, which they CRATE
fully named in honor of their former
owner, Harper, which is geographically
designated on the map of Liberia. He
subsequently forwarded them a large sum
of money, for their maintenance, till their
livings should be assured. He wa
accepted among friends and acquaintance
as an energetic, Industrious, p~hilanthro-
pic, honest and upright man, and faithful
: and Just officer. On October 10th, 1873,
the son died a minor. BEthe laws of the
State, the said Charles H. Hardin inherit
ed one-sixth of the estate, and his por-
ton in the reality, consisting OF the
homestead residence mt good part Of
I, the farm, was set apart and confirmed to
him in April, 1881, and has been sold
and from the proceeds thereof, the sale
Charles II. Hardin and Mary B. Hardin
Il his wife, come now, and by these presents
!, do give, convey and deliver to Hardin
College the sum of eighteen Thousand
s seven hundred and fifty dollars, in trus
:, and upon the following terms and condi
tons:
ssThat said sum and income thereo
q shall be expended in the erection All
construction of 4 wing on the East sid
of the chapel edifice, and of durable walk
from the college buildings to the streets
and of a laundry building and servants
l. apartments. and the residue of said SUI
and income, if any, to be applied as tn
IS Board of Directors may determine.
Second, That as a memorial of tn
source of said sum, and of the sterlin
~ qualities of the said head of the sal
I. family, a professorship, to which shall b
in especially assigned instruction in ment'
and moral science and which shall /
y forever known as the Andrew Harpe
Professorship, shall be established an
y maintained continuously in and by saj
Is college.
ly Third, That the Board of Directors
said college shall, on the acceptance
:, the proposition and provisions here
contained pledge, by its orders of recor
the good faith of the college and of Il
VI Board of Directors to a faithful perform
ce apce of the terms and conditions here
tie expressed; and,
Fourth, The property into which sa
sum of money and income shall be CO
lat verted, shall only be held by the cole
)r- in trust, and upon the same terms al
ed conditions as were affixed and applied
ri the five acres Of ground conveyed by t
undersigned parties to Hardin College
deeds, dated June 10th, 1873, and record
'er in the Recorders office within and for t
ess county of Audrain, Missouri, in deed DO
Ike "V," on pages 1861.
,,t En- witness whereof we have here
signed our names and affixed our SCI
this the goth day of April, 1882.
CHARLES H. HARDIN
the MARY B. HARDIN,
ail- Also be it Reso.red, That a professe
al ship, to which is hereby assigned
special duty of instruction in mental a
moral philosophy be, and hereby is esta
lished in and for the college, and that
Pc same shall be continuously maintain
can and known by the name and designat'
int. of 'Andrew Harper Professorship."
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Il A Girl Fishing.
Our friend Dick Speed, of the W
renton Banner, was In Mexico
week and went fishing with a Mex
girl, who amused Dick as follows:
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