The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-10-10
RELICS.
Catalogues Issued by Masonic College
and Masonic Lodge in Ante
Bellum Days.

Through the courtesy of Mr. j. L. Mar
shall, we have been enabled to examine
the second annual catalogue of the old
Masonic College, which was issued from
the Lexington Express Office in 1851. 1t
has eight printed pages and contains the
names of the board OF directors, faculty
and students. Among the board OF direc-
tors are the names of many ciIizens of
Lexington who are or have been WELL
known to the general public. They were
VIM. L.. Wood, E. Winsor, VIM. II. Rus
sell, Levi Blackwell, Howard Williams,
Sr., VIM. Houx, c. II. M~oorehead and
Cyrus Osborn. f. L. b. Shafer, A. M,
was president of the college. Among the
students we find such well known men as
John w. Waddell, OF the senior class
John e. Ryland, junior class; Joseph l..
Thomas, sophomore; Lafayette w. Groves,
Thomas A. Groves, John w. Vaughan and
Carroll II. Wood, freshmen. In the pre-
paratory dedartment are the names OF
many old Lexingtonians. Among them
may be mentioned John f.. Burden,
Nathan Corder, Jackson Corder, Thos. A.
Crump, Chas. Clayton, II. c. Chadwick, J.
III. Carter, VIM. G.. Duvall, William East
wood, Geo. IL. Gordon, B. f. Houx,
Brooke Hickman, Robt. Hunter, James E.
and Richard Keith, s. F. and T.. f. Letton,
Rolen Porter, A. V. Robinson, A. W. Stay
back, Jas. w. Waddell, Chas. Wallace,
Payne Wood and John s. Young.
All OF the above mentioned students
were reared in this city. Many of them
are still living in the city and county,
though perhaps the majority OF them are
dead. A number of them attained posi-
ions of high honor and trust in civil lie,
and several were noted leaders during the
late war.
A note at the foot of one OF the pages of
the catalogue mentions the death of a
student named VIM. H. Dunn, of YER
saIles, KY, who was drowned while
bathing in the Missouri river, north of
the college.
Altogether, the old catalogue is quite a
curiosity, and it has been we'll preserved
by its owner.
Another interesting relic possessed by
MIR. Marshall is a 14-page catalogue issued
from the press of NJ. Nieder, 43 Pine
street, st. Louis, in 1859, for the "W. NJ.
Wardens and Brethren" of the Grand
L@OuSo, ~ L a. uu.s " nliSSOuIl" II
catalogue was issued for the purpose of
answering certain statements made to the
Grand Lodge relative to the establish
ment of the college at Lexington. 1t
appears that the Grand Lodge had re-
iected by a small majority the obligations
entered into with the lodge here for the
support of the college, and the catalogue
gives a detailed history of the transaction.
In 1916 the Grand Lodge invited PROPOSE
tions for the permanent location of the
college at any place within its jnrisoic-
ton. Lexington made a proposition
which was accepted, and the college
located here. Nineteen lodges voted for
Lexington, seven for Palmyra and two
for Liberty. On July 18th, 1S4S, the Grand
Lodge, then in session here, took possess
sion of the college and grounds and dedi-
Gated them to the ''use and purposes of
education" The controversy lasted for
some time, but the opponents of Lexington
did not succeed in removing the college.
1t was in n most lourishing condition up
to the outbreak of the war, when it was
seized by Gen. Mulligan, who threw up
Notifications arouud it to defend his army
against the assaults of Gen. Prices forces,
but was forced to surrender, after the old
building had been bored through and
battered by many cannon balls. After the
war it stood for some years in a partly
dismantled condition on a barren hill, but
it is now a part of Central College, one OF
the most famous female educational in
StitutiOna in the cantrat Uest-