The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-26
1By BION II. BUTIER.)

Ina College of Agriculture and Me-
rhsnic Arts. AS L moseyed down
,brough that document 1t struck me
t1.,t had some testimony as to A. |
and NJ. that would be good if it could
,. scattered. for l a seen the work |
If some of the young chaps who have
some out from the institution and it is
good.
over on Drowning creek, a couple |
II miles from Keyser, is a testimonial |
q, and NJ. along with other things. |
and guess l will pass it along. The |
browning creek plantation is the
western corner Of Hoke county. That
.orner marked n corner in the old
so 0OO-acre plantation of Lauchlin
grthune when his line ran north 43
cast eight or zen miles to a stake,
mines pointers. and off in the other
direction about the same distance and
looked like a grant of land from the
Lords ProprietOrs of the colonies to
some English adventurer of two cen
mrieS or more ago.
The Buchans From Buchan.
Jonathan T.. Buchan-you know by
that scotch name and the Jonathan
Edwards that starts it that he was a
PRESBYTERIAN. From the old stock of
which Burns wrote when he spoke of
the physician in Death and DR.. Horn
book" the Buchans from Buchan, a
nIin" ina IL = uP Will 0uhCS
and lords and earls, and all that ind
Of plumber, for six hundred years ago
there were Earls of Buchan.
The Buchans have been prominent
i'm this section for generations, old Ar
chic Buchan holding thousands of
acres of land i'll his day, a habit the
younger Buchan chung to.
IT,. Buchan was Il soldier about
the first thing he selected for him
self. He mixed up with the Yankees
in a New York military prison before
the curtain fell at ~Appomattox, and he
hung on TO that habit also. In time
he came into possession of the Drown
ing Greek plantation, of "a couple of
thousand acres-for numbering pur-
poses.
Like everybody else who had lum-
Der tracts in this section he cut off
the lumber, then tried to sell the land.
as IT was Of no use for anything
else. Like the rest of the lumbermen
Ia found the land a slow sale. Then,
like some others, he tried to cultivate
1t. He surprised himself and the rest
Of the folks by making about a bale of
cotton to the acre of land, n he took
his farm more seriously. Year by
year he extended his little clearing
until it attained considerable proper
tons. Then one day he died. A
good man was lost to this community,
ipi j IL. bucndn was q TlDKe anu
an aggressive spirit, carrying his COM
munity forward with him.
When the Scotch Presbyterians
came into this country they brought
with them an instructive desire for
schools. The Queens Museum. at
terward Liberty Hall at Charlotte, one
of the first schools in the State, was
under the supervision of Presbyterian
ministers. David Caldwells log cabin
IN Guilford, that primitive college and
theological seminary, was under
Presbyterian ministers from Prince
ton. Rev. David Kerr. a Presbyterian
from Fayetteville. from Trinity Col
lege in Dublin, was selected in 179!
10 be the professor at the Universit!
when II was opened. When Davidson
was established a few year. later. NJ
one but a Presbyterian was made eli
sible for trustee. professor or teache
but Presbyterian.
More than a hundred years ago tn,
old Solemn Grove Academy fiourishet
not far from the boundary of tn,
Buchan acres, and from Solemn Grow
went forth a fair number of youni
men who afterward made names 70
themselves in the State and nation
tne OF the number was William A
'Ifdham, Secretary of the Navy frOr
North Carolina in FilImore's Cabine1
Tie was also Governor of the State an
feueFal senator IN his day.
lie Valued Education.
80 it is but natural, that JOnatha
Edwards Buchan should have value
education. His brood of six boys an
girls were given the advantages
thapel Hill, Red Springs. Alabam
polytechnic. A. and M. and other in
Sututions. To A. and M. went tn
younger son, II. G. Buchan. and frol
there TO the Alabama Polytechnic
put on some additional trimming
The young chap came back from h
agricultural schools. and went over
Ihe Drowning creek farm, which TT
iather had made a model farm On
SINAI scale. There the education
'nN Young man was yoked up wit
IN" Shrewd Scotch sense and jud!
heht. and the experience of the old
nan, and they made a right GOO
leam. The old man was broad enous
~ appreciate the book knowledge ar
theoretical requirements of the DO
ina was satisfied with his oynanHifu