The Detroit times., 1914-04-28
Institutions History Begins with
Killing of Man Near Mem
phis. so Years Ago
FACTIONS STRUGGLE
TO CONTROL SCHOOL
Social Service Work. However
Finally Eradieates Spirit
of Revenge

4 gnlryuhs-e Wke-e there Is school DIX
.c2rzh 10 - called college. OFTEN
raty rcz~ szSE s.th stories that have
ruE aeG-r-esals in them.
one sz.a Is the story or Bolton
y,g2E,srs s-I 4 ways IN the country
s-su E,-EEs Elck. Tenn. II begins
y n,a,k shEz 50 years ago win the Kill
~ ~ 4 man IA the streets OF Mem
asis since then college laW ngured
ma gaaiE OF events which cost the
aes * 20 men. out OF il all Bolton
ecllsge has not yet emerged. The
s..rsaa OF education, hearing about II,
sear one OF their field agents down
ae snd out just how Bolton college
artscaItural high school, give II
* rIIl title-was managed.
Tue agent found that The insptu-
in owns tract of zoo acres III
IA center OF which. grouped about a
rEAcFe campus shaded by $50 trees,
sad the college buildings
snrsss. dormitories, class rooms ana
GEees II is supported mainly by the
interest," OF what amounts 10 per
rsrnal endowment. of. some 100000
whf, agent reported that the collage
a. sea responsible for much OF The
Ss0zFeSs IN that part oT Shelny couu-
.st-..41.s - EsaG&y ecs.ss cAIts ttpe lal4nagr.
E-at 81 the feud which had sroNn
40 with the schools fortunes, and
rne town Is now one OF the most
v@arsgaT Ia the district The farm
erS through the example set them by
gAs Bolton students, are pursuing bet
reT methods OF farming They have
hrs.sn led 10 become better husbands
and the women better wives
IN me DAYS before the Civil war
W&ae n Bolton and his brothers were
sIsre-traders. with headquarters in
Marnphis The site OF what is now
BChOn college vas his farm, or plan
EzrlOn- He was a rich man, as for
tunes went in those days, worth about
$50, coo
One dag in a Memphis street Isaac
4. Bolton. one OF Wade's brothers, be
cane involved with Kentuckian in
q controversy over the ownership or
4 Alaye girl, and shot his opponent.
tie Was placed in the Memphis Jaf1'
and Has saved from lynching through
the intercession OF Nathan Bedford
Forrest. later the famous confederate
general.
Esaac Bolton was arraigned three
times in the courts of Shelby county,
and each time IL was mistrial.
There followed a change of,yenue and
more "mistriaIs Finally, however,
Isaac Bolton was acquitted.
After the verdict came charges that
the jurors had been bribed. Some or
them we're convicted.
The acquittal had cost heibrothers
more than 100000. Isaac paid part
OF 1t and then died Then an effort
waf made TO collect something from
his brother Wade IL caused bitter
feeling in the community al Bruins
wick. Sides were tal1en and armed
men were put into they field on both
sides. Shootings weref frequent and
20 men were killed. Finally Wade
III. fBolton, head or one faction, and
Thomas Dickens who,Aed the other,
met in Court Square. Memphis, IN
1869. Dickens got Bolton, but soon
afterward was himself killed by the
accidental discharge pf his own gun.
"A year before the Memphis shoot
ing Wade II. Bottoms made his Will.
IL was a strange d1cument fun OF
granmatical errors, aHnd written In
hts own hand, butt Its appearance
was no more strange ethan its con
tents. For instance the seventh.
clause OF thetwill reads
II give andtbeQneath. to tine widow
and children Iof Gen. Thomas JonaI
than Jackson known as Stonewall,
Jackson, who 'feal at 1.-THE battle of
ChAncellorsvilbe, Va, $4,000. as his-'
tory tells me his. willows FURNITURE
waf sold after hiss death flor, debt"
u was the .fou1eenthb clause that
brought into being Bolton College
Agricultural high tschool. BY it he
left his Hobokent farm In Shelby
county as the site ,of AM educational
institution, and by other provisions
gave the residues OF his estate not
specifically made the subject OF be-
quests 10 be loaned oH on interest
and applied TO the edIatioD OF the
poor and orphan white children OF
the first distTic1 of Shelby county
After the school was established
the two factions were ,at each others
thTVats again tovhr its control There
was. a long Scontinued fight between
the ms and the outs. And SO itl went
on tuntil finally the county court.
with the sanction OF sthe Tennessee
legislature. took what was left OF
tha. Bolton .bequest law lshrms0n 70
aboht $4,000, UPON a Dan for, 10
years. Other endowments were Job
-taIned until the coEege had an in.
conae equivalent toIthe interest upon
s20e,000. A board bf trustees ,was ap
pointed upon whS5h were named
seven among the best citizens ot
Mefnphis--men free from local dicta.
ton. But the beard encountered a
snag right at thes start.
Under the old. system. no matter
who was In control or ON OF control
the hard befoffgfng to the college
had been rented out at "fgyoritisni
prices" The board demanded fair
rental and f'mnd tenants Willing Il
pay IL.
Then began the "WhitetCap" trou
bles. Nighz iriders were hired Il
drive ont thee tenants whoswere ready
10 pay the 70 irer rental. one OF the
net tenants was shot: this was MS.
than three Years ago.
The board OF trustees employed {
dettctive. who ingratiated' himself
into the hxht riders banA sand col
lectfd fsu d1cient evidence toUgfve thu
'tolitEe <yip cials a sword TO hold oyel
theit nects. This spiked khe guns
~ tle might ridsrs.
MISUNDERSTANDING organizpdl mems
and wOmen's clubs. through (which
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