Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-08-09
Days at Arcadia.

While rummaging through his
desk several days ago, Judge G. c.
Bland, presiding judge of the st.
Louis court of appeals, resurrected
catalogue of the teachers and
students of the Arcadia high
school, located at Arcadia, Madi-
son county Mo-, for the year end
ing July 4, 1855, at which time he
was pupil there.
The catalogue shows that the
school was incorporated, "with
collegiate powers, in 1S4S, and
that it was under the oversight of
the st. Louis Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. The late Rev. Jerome G.
Bergman was principal and pro-
fessor of manual and moral science.
Rev. Bergman died in Farming
ton, Mo-, last May while the gen.
eral conference of the Southern
Methodist Church was in session
in Birmingham, Ala, at the age of
SO years. He was the last sur
vivor of the Baltimore conference
of 1874, which separated the
Methodist Church in the United
States from it's English parent.
His wife was governess of the Ar
cadia school at the time the cata-
logue was printed.
The other members of the faculty
were: Asbury G. Farnham, Geo.
w. Farrar, who is now practicing
medicine in Ironton, Walter B.
Trumbull, Misses E. E. Barringer
and E. G. Bergman and S. A..
Nall, the latter, an aunt of Judge
Bland. The board of conference
visitors consisted of Rev. w.
Browning, Rev. E. B. Headlee and
Rev. M. Arlington. Miss E. G..
Bergman married Giles Russell of
Pennington, Mo-, Mrs. Nall was
the mother of United States Deputy
Marshal Walter Nall of st. Louis.
OF the male students four young
men - Robert L., Lemuel and
Eugene L. Maulsby and Henry
L. Ridgeley-met death in tragic
manner on April Is, 1866, having
been burned to death in a house
in Arcadia which was struck by
lightning. Judge Bland says he
assisted in gathering up their
bones the next day.
The school, Judge Bland says.
was maintained for both sexes,
and was at that time regarded as
the highest institution of learning
in southern Missouri or northern
Arkansas. Among the higher
branches taught were elocution.
Greek and Latin prosody, English,
Greek and Latin composition and
defamation. At the close of the
summer term for 1855 the school
had seventy-five male students
and forty-nine females, among
which were the following: James
F. Allen, Benton, Mo-; John M
Anthony, Washington county
Dewitt G. Bugg, Charles G. Bland
John w. Bergman, John N. Ber.
ryman, J. Thompson Blanton, Ar.
cadia; Jesse Blackwell, Ste. Gene.
We've county; Benjamin T. and
Francis M. Carter, Ripley county
Amaziah j. and Cooper Carder, st
Francois county; Shadrach M
Casteel, Perry county; Ross M
Crow, Crawford county; Lowndes
H. Davis, jackson; Henry David
son, Arcadia; Robert E. Eastwood
Pemiscot county; Robert w
Franks, William A. Fletcher ant
William Alden Farnham, Arcadia
E. L. Graham, Madison county
Albert Gill, Wayne county; Rob
L., Lemuel and Eugene Maulsby
New Madrid; Levy McCulloch
Jefferson county; John A., Johr
H., Luther K, William G. and G
D. w. Moore, Jerome B. Nall
Horace E., James M, Henry B.
George, Joseph, Andrew and Joh1
M. Pearce, Arcadia; James F
Phegley, Pemiscot county; Fran
els H. Rambo, Old Mines; Poca
hontas S. Farmer, st. Francois
county; Emma Hill, Caroline G
Newberry, Julia E. Newberry
Eliza P. Parkin, Fredericktown
Caroline E. and Ellen E. Pease
Arcadia; Elizabeth R. Rucker, st
Louis; Amanda A. Rhyme ant
Mary E. Suits, Arcadia; Julia A
Thomas, Washington county
Alice A., Francis A., Margaret G
and Sarah Taylor, Sarah j. ant
Drusilla Tong, Sarah A. and Mar
garet Watts, Arcadia; Angelin,
Whitney, Franklin county.-Fred
ericktolcn Democrats Ne,Ds.