The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-04

started New Bern Academy as private
enterprise in 1904. but it was soon taken
up by the leading citizens and a charter
procured. A tax was levied OF one penny
gallon on distilled spirits for the sup
port of an assistant, the principal re-
ceiving about $500 per annum from the
pupils and SIS a year from the S. p. G..
Tuition was $40 per year, ten poor
scholars being admitted free. In 1872
Mr.. Tomlinson had a difference with the
trustees probably on a question of dis
cipline, resigned and removed to Rhode
Island. The New Bern Academy did a
great work. Governor Spaight Judge
CASTOR, John Stanly, DR.. Hawks, Bishop
Hawks, Senator Badger and other nota-
bic men received their early training
there.
In the old days a Presbyterian preach
err was usually as a matter of course a
teacher of the children of his flock. or
these the following deserve special no
tice:
Rev. James Tate established classi-
cal school in Wilmington in 1860 and
taught acceptably for eighteen years,
when he was forced to leave Wilmington
after its capture by the British. He set
his pastoral work.
Rev. David Caldwell d. D., graduated
at Princeton in 1861 and organized a
famous school in GuiIford county about
1867. Judge Murphey in an address at
the commencement of the University in
1927 paid a glowing tribute to his ex-
cellence as a teacher and usefulness as
a citizen. He was so active as a Wing
in the Revolution that the British burn
ed his library. He was member of the
State Congress, which adopted our Con-
stitution, and of the convention of 1888,
which postponed the ratification Of the
Federal Constitution. He was the first
who received the degree of Doctor OF
Divinity from our University He was
invited by the trustees to take charge
of the University, but declined For
many years his instruction supplied the
want of higher education to those desir-
ing to be fitted for the ministry His
school was about three miles northwest
of Greensboro. and he was besides pas
tor of Buffalo and Alamance churches.
He continued teaching until two years
before his death, in 1924, at the age of
ninety and nine.
Liberty Hall Academy, which took the
place of the Queens museum, situated
in Charlotte, had for short while, until
it was broken up by the British in
vasion, the learned Rev. Alexander M
Wharter, d. D., of New Jersey, who came
out as missionary and was induced to
become the principal
Another superior teacher at later
date was Rev. James Waller, who re-
ceived the honorary degree of Master of
Arts from the University in 1910 and
was for ten years one of its trustees
He taught at New Providence in Neck
lenburg, dying in 1929, after laboring in
schools for about forty years.
A famous school was the Crowded
Academy, about two and a half miles
northeast of Davidson college, at a
place called Belle Mont as early as
1850. Rev DR.. David Ker, the first
presiding professor OF the University,
and Charles Caldwell, NJ D., afterwards
a Mexican professor in Philadelphia, are
said to have taught here when young,
still more noted school, which merited
the name of Log College," was Clos
Nursery first opened in 177S, and Science
Hall. the latter being so called after
apparatus in physics was procured and
instruction given in science The princi-
pal was Rev. James Hall, d. D., this de-
gree being conferred by his alma mater,
Princeton College (now University and,
ad sundem. by our University. He did
not allow his clerical profession to pre-
vent his being a captain of cavalry in
the Revolution, acting also as chaplain,
killing the bodies of British and Tories,
while he endeavored to save their souls
In the absence of colleges he supplied
higher education to many of the best
preachers and laymen of the Carolinas
and Georgia He also aided his com
munity by establishing circulating
library and organizing debating societies
He was one of our early North Carolina
authors, publishing an English Grammar
He made a donation of about sixty
volumes to the library of the young
University. He died in 1926 his last
years being clouded by melancholy.
Henry Pattillo was one of the early
able teachers of the State-a Scotch
born Presbyterian. His influence was SO
great that Governor Tryon selected him
in conjunction with DR.. David Caldwell
to endeavor to pacify the insursent
Regulators. He was a delegate to the
Provincial Congress of ITS and on ac-
count of his weight of character was
chosen to preside over the Committee OF