The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-17
FRANKLIN GILLETTE SMITH,
CONTINUED FROM SIXTH pAaE1

"For fourteen Columbia Tennessee and
energy extensive learning September
gan the publication of The Guardian family magazine that for had
wide circulation He Principal the Ahen@m fourteen from 1852
DEATH The
with full college
Recto in Guardian gives
education His book Rectory published by
W. T. Berry d Company in Nashville
Portions and letters dealing with Professor Smiths career and ser
naturally appeal readers
especial which form nondeb section be found much that
interesting of local history and incident adm Pestaoz
and his schools characterized by Peaozzn department which still
continued
Memory life that was ended thirty years ago is liable to be defective
but tangible biography Mr. Smith published
Houston Thomas President
pupils Rngod Knoxville
another the Proceedings
Tennessee for 1867 resolutions
newspapers Being inventive of mind the subject of this sketch OBJ
tanned many patents the United States patent
In politics Whig have
Like
furnished uniforms his Company Colonel Bates
Second Tennessee Infantry into the Confederate served
the home guards and much time the Confdc and with the southern
He persons feasibility
road
was great student an earnest reader His style speak
ing and writing graceful and polished n high
March, 1856 he suffered great loss school buildings by fire but he went
work Immediately the disaster.
Ofhs unusually
character and drawing crowds his ectureroom others have written elsewhere
but of the details his daily life and both professor principal
associations with men, of his aims and purposes of his ideas and theories dis
closed by his letters the fullest record preserved in The Guardian
AS Principal the Athenaum position which he held fourteen he
have met with great difficulties yet he always making i'm
proven n buildings grounds and methods.
Dving into the earth and the instruction and control of youth
to lin n the everyday affairs of
Mrs Smith revisited their old Iynchburg, Virginia
absence twenty three They could help being
that had been made the
gladly welcomed warmly received by their relatives
Smith returned the
his labors by
provided with teachers, this institution
place undoubtedly the bo the sort these United States The
library and splendid paintings the musical instruments the beautiful
privilege
assocan intimately with excellent and highly cultivated Mr. and
4 Mrs Smith
unusually brilliant and occasions the
pills. visitors Mr.
his fnestre Shakespeare
vacation Mrs Smith visit her married daughter and family
in Cincinnati According his lifelong CUSTOM Smith began making prepa
opening school, when he
His wonderful vitality sustained him. But
teaphed arrived presence
approaching,
Pastor Church. holy
All that loving friends and scientific skill could do done but about half
past O'Clock Saturday August 1866
years quietly peacefully without he bah
by pastor
lowing Sunday afternoon multitude people assembled and the procession
Columbia All of the church bells
cemetery burial with Masonic honors being
Accepted Lynchburg;
and Sublime Prince the Royal Secret News of this death
brought thousands his pupils patrons and friends this and other
Nro girl ever applied him vain for assistance her educa
More than hundred thousand dollars worth accounts due him
his ledger though required much continue the Aheaum He left
widow who maintained the reputation the Aeneum until her death 1871
daughters l. Hosea Burckhardt
r. W Smith,
ton until ten since which time has been charge of R. D. Smith
the oldest.
This biography just memory achievements
granddaughter without the gratitude
the Commonwealth this their
n
grave Hill cemetery
his Of the finest italian marble tdeign and finish both
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her brothers
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