Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-06
IRONTON. MO-. TIL HURSDAY. AUGUST 6. 1885.

Trust: and I re-opened the school il
September 1868. Here again / take
! great pleasure in giving due credit t
those who assisted me in giving life
prosperity, and success, once more t.
| the institution whose memory we de
light to honor. The buildings, ant
| premises having been alternately occu
pied for several years by the Militar,
and Refugees, were IN a fearful state o
disorder-not TO say ruin-which o
| course involved the outlay of a consid-
erabIe amount of money for repairing
and refurnishing. But almost withou
the asking, Judge Pipkin, Judge Rus
sell. and few other like-minded par
ties came forward with material aid in
the way of advance tuition, to the
amount of several hundred dollars each
And l am happy to be able to say they
did not lose their reward. Besides
these. Gen. G. B. Fisk, then in com
mand of Federal troops in Southeast
Missouri, with headquarters at Pilot
Knob, brought me under obligations in
various ways, which I can never forget
nor be able to repay, 1t was at his in
stigation that we left our home in
Belleview Valley to resume the task OF
conducting large boarding school: at
any time responsibility no. to be COW
eted. But how much more so when
the whole county was involved in civil
war! Under these circumstances, not
very encouraging, our school soon fill
ed, almost to Overlooking. with stu
dents of both sexes: and for four years
we enjoyed degree of success not sur
passed by any one of the years of our
former experience. But my wife's
health had SO far failed. and my own
for some time none of the best. that we
thought it necessary for us to retire:
and after sundry efforts to induce the
Conference and other parties to relieve
us in part or in whole. without success,
[ again sold the property. And at the
! close of its session in the summer of
1867 my management and ownership
of Arcadia High School ceased. I will
here state that during the sixteen years
of my personal management of this In
stitution, it was all the time self-sus-
tanning, and never received pecuniary
aid for which it did not return an
equivalent. [ raised and educated my
own children here, and furnished facil-
tiles of education to many hundreds of
of the children of others.
Arcadia High School was established
upon the principle of the co-education
of the sexes; and throughout its exist
ence its rolls represented about equal
same to do over l would greatly prefer
q school of this kind for my own sons
and daughters, as well as for the best
interests of others who might be en-
trusted to me. There are substantial
reasons for this preference, which need
not be given here. It is q matter of
graduation that so large number of
those who received education at Area
dia have filled and are filling honora-
BILE positions in social, business, educa-
tional and political life; and not a few
in the church of God.
I should Rot fell satisfied if in this
brief sketch I did not make grateful
mention of those who have not been
herein named, and to whose efficient
labors the Arcadia High School owed
SO much. The following names there
fore are here recorded in about the Or
der in regard to time in which they
served the institutions: Mrs. Molay:
Rev. John T. Peace, teacher of Ian
guages; Mrs. Pearce, teacher of music;
Rev. J. P. Davis. teacher of the prima-
ry department; Rev. Peter E. Bland,
teacher of languages; Walter B. Trum-
bull, teacher of primary department.;
IT,
w. Farrar, teacher of languages; Prof.
Hinchey, teacher of drawing and paint
ing; Miss Wells, teacher of music; G.
B. Nall, teacher primary department.;
Miss Emily G. Bergman, teacher of
music; Thomas Essex, teacher of Ian
guages; B. S. Newland, teacher of lam
guages; Mrs. Newland, teacher of mu-
sic; Prof. Hypes, teacher of language
and mathematics; Prof. Whitlock
teacher of mathematics; Prof. Kotzen-
berg, teacher of music; Miss Hunt,
teacher Of primary department.; Miss
E. Cessna Bergman, teacher of music.
Besides these there were several others
who did good work as assistants in
teaching from time to time.
In the fall of 1868 Rev. l.. M. Lewis
of the Texas Conference, M. E. Church,
South, came to Arcadia, and purchas- |
ing the Arcadia High School property, |
the institution under the |
more pretentious name of ARCADIA |
COLLEGE. He had for time very |
patronage. But after sew
erai years of heroic efforts the enter
prise had to be given up, and the prop
erty fell into other hands.
And now, after the lapse of years, the
truth of history demands that it be
said, Arcadia College was not lost to
US by the fault. or mismanagement of
any one man. There was formidable
of adverse influences,
which doomed the noble enterprise of
Gen. Lewis to defeat. These maliDf1u-
ences were found in part, to exist in
the following facts: The friends of
in Mississippi county had
after the suspension of the
old Arcadia High School, to establish
a school of high grade in the town of
and the people of Bellevue
Valley had done the same by starting |
what was, and is now, known as Belle
vue CollegiateI Both of these |
school were in operation when the |
new enterprise at Arcadia was inaugu- |
rated; and all looked to, and were de-
pendent upon the people of Southeast
Mo. for patronage, and nothing was |
more natural than that competition
and mutual jealousy should arise. This
state of things was greatly aggravated
by the additional fact that they all
were more or less allied to the same |
church: or at least the proprietorship |
and management of them all were i'll |
the hands of parties belonging to the |
same denomination.
But notwithstanding all this think |
it may be safely said; Arcadia College
would have triumphed upon the prin-
ciple of "the survival of the fittest,"
provided the resolves of a meeting of
the Alumni of the old Arcadia High |
School at the laying of the corner stone |
of the new building, July 9Th, 1870, and |
of the st. Louis Conference at its ses-
sion in Charleston at subsequent date,