The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16


king Cotton
First TO have public female schoo
Established by Rev. David Kerr, 8
Preshvterian minister, at Natchez, in
1901.
First to charter an institution OF
learning for the higher education OF
young women-The Elizabeth Female
Academy, Washington, Miss, Febru-
airy Il. 1919 This college was called
b. Bishop Galloway The Mother OF
Female Colleges"
First college established in the
South by Presbyterians was Oakland
College in Claiborne county. Miss, six
miles from the town of Rodney, in
1890.
First to establish territorial col
lege, Jefferson College, Washington,
Miss, in 1902
First to have military institution,
Jefferson Military College, near Nat
chez, 1929. Jefferson Davis attended
| this college. where he received his
early training in military tactics.
First to found university for the
| cOlOred race Tougaloo University.
near Jackson, Miss, founded in 1869
First 20 establish an agricultural
and mechanical college for negro stu
dents-AlcOrn University, 1871.
First N America to establish an in
dustrial institute and college for the
training of young women in the indus
trial arts-Industrial Institute and
College, Columbus, Miss, March -
! 1884.
First to establish an agricultural
college. under the supervision of a
Confederate soldier, who was its first
Observation-Disclosures and Mechani-
cal College, Starkville, Miss, estab-
lished 1880 by Stephen d. Lee, foun-
der and first president
First to establish a Literary Fund"
for the free education of poor children
BY the legislature on recommends
ton of Governor Poindexter in 1921.
First to have a Society for the
Diffusion of Useful knowledge Or
ganized in Mississippi, November s,
1898.
First to pass a law for a uniform
system of public schools-By legisla-
ture of Mississippi in 1916.
First to establish a commercial col
lege-At Bay ST Louis by the Cath
olics in 1859
First 10 print ballad on a diminu-
tive press, only 4 by inches-"The
Galley Slave printed by Col Andrew
Marschalk at Walnut Hills (now
Vicksburg) in 1907.
First in number of newspapers pub.
lished at an early date-There were
thirty newspapers printed in Missis
sippi as early as 1897.
First TO have a book and tract So
ciety-vicksburg established by the
Methodists. 1855.
eign Mission Boards-By the Baptists
in Mississippi in 1886.
First to establish mission among
the ChOctaw Indians-The MAYHEM
Mission" established at Mayhem,
Miss, by Rev. Cyrus Kingsbury, a
Presbyterian minister, in 1920
First TO introduce co-education in
State University in Southern states
Young women admitted to University
of Mississippi, 1888
First to advance the use of Southern
textbooks 1856 Rev. c. X. Mar
shall of Mississippi, wrote to the New
Orleans Picayune recommending that
the legislature appropriate $4,000 to
encourage the writing and printing of |
home textbooks. saying: I'VE can and |
must print I'D teach our own books:
VIC must not permit our Toes 10 COM |
pose our songs and prepare our nurs-
cry tales" The outbreak of the war
prevented his hopes from being real |
lied. Would that this policy could |
have been carried out when the war |
was over. SO that the youth of the |
South could have been taught cor
rect history)
First to write a school history of the /
ku klux Khan, so that our children |
may know the truth about this organ
ization. which saved the South from |
carpet-bag and negro rule during Re-
construction The Ku KIux Khan Or |
Invisible Empire" published 1914: |
author, Mrs. s. E. F. Rose. of Missis- |
sippi
First TO lead in the movement to |
use this history of the Khan in her |
schools Adopted. on recommends |
ton of superintendent, by board of |