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


spent about twelve years, teaching and
preaching in Orange and Granville. One
of his schools was in WILLIAMSBURG, then
the chief town of Granville. Another
was Granville Hail." incorporated in
1873, when the State was convulsed with
war. The Governor, Caswell, the Speak
er of the Senate, Abner Nash the Speak
er of the House, Thomas Benbury, a
signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, Penn and Brigadier General Thomas
Person and other leading men, were as
| ISOLATED with Pattillo in the enterprise
Liberal subscriptions were made to it.
The trustees were instructed to buy 500
| acres and erect buildings thereon. We
do not know any details of it's history.
Pattillo published a book of sermons
and also Geography of the World, by
Questions and Answers; printed in 1896
by Abraham Hodge. 1t was dedicated
TO General VIM Richardson Davie. 1t is
a work of merit.
About 1863 a classical school of much
repute was at Bandor, about fifteen miles
above Edenton. on the Chowan. The
principals were Rev. Daniel Earl, rector
of st. Paurs Parish. Edenton. and his
daughter. Miss Ann Nancy Earl. The
late eminent physician of Raleigh, DR..
Charles Earl Johnson, was descended
from him.
Edenton Academy. chartered in 1910,
was widely patronized. The master was
required to be a member of the Church
of England, but this provision was little
regarded. Among it's teachers prior to
the Revolution was Rev. Charles Petit
grew, grandfather of General J. Johnston
Pettigrew, who took charge under license
from Governor Joshua Martin. Mr.. Pet
tigrew was then Presbyterian. He af
forwards joined the Protestant Episcopal
Church and was elected Bishop, but could
not be ordained then because of yellow
fever in Philadelphia where the ordain-
ing Bishops were to meet, and was after
wards prevented by i'll health. Another
able teacher at late date was Rev.
Jonathan Otis Freeman, d. D., a Presby-
terrain preacher, father of the widely
known clerk of the Supreme Court the
late Edmund B. Freeman, and of Rev.
DR.. George w. Freeman, late Bishop
OF Arkansas.
OF the teachers after the Revolution
and beginning before 1900 there is worthy
of special notice Rev. Samuel Eusibus
McCorckle. His academy was near Thya-
tira church. six miles west of Salisbury
and had the ambitious name of Zion
Parnassus-the union Of religion and
literature. He was thorough instruc-
tor and an enlightened advocate Of
higher education. Out of seven of the
first graduates of the University six were
his pupils. He had a special depart
ment in his school for the training Of
teachers, so that he had probably the
first normal school in America, about
1898. His sermon at the laying of the
corner stone of the ''Old East, the first
University building, October 18th, 1893
was printed and sustains his high repu-
tation. The principal professorship OF
that institution was offered to him but
he declined it.
Rev. VIM. Bingham, father and grand
father of eminent teachers, began his
beneicent work in Wilmington, about
1888. About 1895 he transferred it to
Pittsboro and there continued until his
acceptance of the professorship of An
cient Languages in the University in
1901 After teaching here four years he
returned to Pittsboro and was very sue
cessful, but, concluding that Hillsboro
was a more eligible location, he there
established his school in 1908. He then
Mebanesville, named it Mt. Rcpose, and
ended his days there in 1926 His cOun-
try school was successful.
Rev. Marcus Georges school at War
renton, among whose pupils were Chief
Justice Ruffin and w. n. Edwards; that
of Rev. John Robinson, d. D., at Fay
etteville and Poplar Tent, Cabarrus
county; that of Hon. Richard Stanford
member of Congress, in the Hawfields;
that of Thomas Routledge and Rev.
Samuel Stanford, of Grove Academy,
Dupln county, where Vice-President
King was PREPARED for the University;
the UniversitSa irammar School, presided
over by Rev. ID. Joseph Caldwell, and
conducted among others by Rev. DR.. An
drew Finn and John Randolph's favorite
preacher, Rev. Abner w. Clopton; and
that of Col. Robert Henry, the first
teacher west of the Blue Ridge were
all of great usefulness and reputation
in their days.
/ have hardly space to do more than
mention the worthy teachers who began
in the first grade of the nineteenth cen
fury.
Rev. John Makensie Wilson, of Rocky |
River Academy. Cabarrus county.
Rev. DR.. Solomon Hallnoz, of Will |
mington. Senior Surgeon in the South in |
the Revolutionary war.
Hon. Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell Acad-
envy, Congressman and Speaker of the |
Senate, who procured the establishment |
of the school fund.
Rev. Daniel Turrentine, for thirty |
years in the Hawfeld section of Ala
nance.
Rev VIM. McPheeters, d. D.. of the |
Raleigh Academy, a :power in the land"
Archibald Debow Murphey, professor
in the University; most active advocate
of public schools.
Rev. Alexander Wilson. d. D.. learned
and accomplished who taught at Raj
egh, WILLIAMSBURG, Greensboro, Hills
boro and finally at Melville, in Alamance
Miss Anna Phillips, Tarboro.
Rev. John Witherspoon, Hillsboro.
Rev. Philip Wiley, Edgecombe, Arson
and Chatham.
Mr. John Rogers. Wilmington and
Hillsboro.
Rev. Gilbert Morgan and wife, Green's