Russel Freeman Shelbyville, Illinoi* > Msvytl tk -^ . Q( -J- SHELBY SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 1854- 1869, O there are Voices of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that bear me back to Times Which cannot come again: Yet God forbid that I should lose The echoes that remain. -ADELAIDE A. PROCTER. EDITED BY 8HELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS: Printed at the Office of OUB BEST WOKDS. MDCCCLXXXVI. IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE FOUNDERS, TEACHERS, TRUSTEES AND STUDENTS OF SHELBY SEMINARY THIS VOLUME IS NOW AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. ERRATA: Read on page 15, third line from top, Okaw Democrat in- stead of "Patriot;" and in second line from bottom of same page Mary C. instead of Mary "E." Woodward. On page 16, twentieth line from top, read to, instead of "in," memory; and on page 28th, fourth line from bottom, read Kate H. instead of Kate "P." Smith. On page 57, third line from bottom, omit "Lieutenant Colonel" and sixth and seventh lines from bottom, read Vicksburg and Hatohie in place of "Stone River" and "Donelson." At bottom of page 66 read 1862 instead of "1861." The teacher of that name on page 66 should be spelled Rhoads instead of "Rhodes." On page 99, second line from bottom, read April 1868 instead of "about 1862 or 1863." A star opposite a name in catalogue indicates death. The following names should be thus marked, to-wit: Henry R. Oheeney, William B. Selby, Eliza H. Huber (Bell). Rachel E. Haydon (Peden), Anna Basye, Thomas Stewart, and perhaps others. The following names should appear in the list of students beginning on page 67, namely: Jacob Swallow (who by the way is editor of the Pana Palladium and one of the best printers in the state), Henry McGullion, Alice Wright and Alice Keeler, and there may be others omitted of whom we have not learned to our regret. CHARLES W. JEROME. PREFACE. In preparing this memorial of Shelby Seminary the editor has en- countered many difficulties. The S eminary (called Academy at first) began over thirty years ago. Over one thousand students attended during the fifteen years of its existence. These are now scattered over America from Massachusetts to California and from the extreme northern territories to Texas. In preparing this volume which has taken the spare moments of our busy pastoral life for more than a year, we have addressed written or printed letters to all whose post office was known,asking for information; and besides, there have been freqiient notices through OUR BEST WORDS, a periodical published at Shelbyville, Illinois. But not more than one-fourth of the thousand and more students have responded. We have succeeded in obtaining all the names of students and teachers during Prof. Jerome's connection with the school; but the history- is unavoidably incomplete, and there are no doubt some errors in names, dates, etc., despite of the care and pains taken to avoid them. Why are there not more biographical sketches, does some oue ask? The answer is, first, because the editor was not furnished the data; and secondly, if the data had been at hand, we could not have prepared and published sketches of all, without greatly increased expense for which there was no provision. In order to add interest and value to the book, all the trustees and teachers and many of the students whose addresses were known, were solicited to lend their portraits to its pages; and a goodly number as will be seen, have kindly consented to do this.* Very certainly, all of the friends of the institution -will regret that many more have not contnbuted in this way. *In allowing his own likeness and the too kind sketch of his life (written by another^ to appear in the following pages, the editor has but yielded to the universally expressed wish of those who had a right to speak and whose urgent requests,under the circum- stances, he (the editor) did not feel free to disregard iv. PREFACE. It was customary to- hold annual exhibitions only at the close of the Fall and Winter Terms, which usually occurred in February. There was always a printed program of these exhibitions and they Avere generally largely attended and received particular notice from the local press. The closing exercises of the year which usually occurred in July consisted mainly of public examinations of the various classes, the exercises being interspersed with music, declamations and the reading of compositions. There were rarely any printed programs of these, which accounts for the meagre information we have been enabled to obtain of the exercises at the close of each Academical year. Without the aid of a few generous friends this memorial could not have been printed; and even with this subsidy, if all the copies printed are sold at the price offered, the book will scarcely pay expenses. Among the generous and cheerful helpers Mr. George Edward Dilley of Palestine, t Texas, deserves the united thanks of all concerned. To him our thanks are due for means to pay for the picture of the old Seminary building and for additional funds required for the more neat binding of the book. For valuable suggestions and assistance in various ways the editor expresses thanks to the following persons: Prof. C. W. Jerome, Hon. S. W. Moulton, Judge Anthony Thornton, Charles L. Howard, Dr. E. E. Wag- goner, Hon. George B. Wendling and, besides these named, our thanks are due many others for favors in securing information. The editor has gladly done his work as a labor of love, amidst other arduous duties, and is only sorry that it could not have been better done. But such as we have been able to make it, is hiimbly submitted to the charitable judgment of all the dear teachers, students, school-mates and friends of the school so precious to memory. BY THE EDITOR. LIST OF POETBAITS. OLD SEMINARY BUILDING, Frontispiece. CHARLES W. JEROME, To face page 1 MRS. EUGENIA A. JEROME, " " 3 ANTHONY THORNTON, " " 9 S. W. MOULTON, " " 19 GEORGE WENDLING, " " 27 MICHAEL D. GREGORY, " " 37 CYRUS HALL, " " 43 CHARLES WOODWARD, " " 54 JOSEPH OLIVER, - " " 58 GEORGE B. WENDLING, " " 74 JASPER L. DOUTHIT, " " 82 A GROUP OF FOUR SISTERS, - " " 86 WALTER C. HEADEN, " " 95 DR. ENOS PENWELL, - " " 98 GEORGE V. PENWELL, " " 100 THE Two PENWELL SISTERS, - " " 104 THIRRISSA TRAVIS (GRAYBILL), " " 110 CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. S. W. Moulton. - 1 HISTORY OF THE BUILDING OF SHELBY ACADEMY. 4 The original Trustees. The names of subscribers and the amount of each subscription. Change from Academy to Seminary. Anthony Thornton. HISTOEY OF THE SCHOOL. - - 10 The First Session. Fac-simile of Program of First Ex- hibition. THEFIEST ACADEMICAL YE AE, 1854-5. - 13 Fac-simile of Programs of Second Exibition. Notice by Okaw Democrat, A. Thornton, editor. SECOND ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1855-6. - - 16 THIRD ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1856-7. - - 17 A letter from Rev. J. L. Crane. FOURTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1857-8. - - - 20 Copy of Programs of closing exercises. Report to local papers by D. C. Smith. FIFTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1858-9. - 22 Semi-annual exercises. SIXTH AND SEVENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1859-60; 1860-1. 24 Advertising Circular. Grand Vocal Concert. Personations. Program of closing Exercises. EIGHTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1861-2. 27 Closing exercises. Notices of the Press. C. W. Jerome's Resignation. The Missing Record. TWELFTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1865-6. - 29 Program of Closing Exercises. THIRTEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1866-7. - 30 Closing Exercises. Notices by Shelby Union, P. T. Martin, editor, and Shelby County Times, George R. Wendling, editor. FOURTEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1867-8. - 32 Program of Closing Excercises. Notices by the Central Illinois Commercial, the Shelby Union and the Shelby County Times. vi CONTENTS. FIFTEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1868-9. 34 Program of Closing Exercises and Notices of the Press. CHANGE ! CHANGE ! CHANGE ! - 37 AFTER THE LAST CLOSING EXERCISES. - 38 Tokens of Eduring Regard to the Principal. Prof. Jerome's Letter of Final Resignation. A Farewell Meeting. A Just Tribute. The Re-union in 1870. THE PLATONIAN SOCIETY AND PROHIBITION. - - 41 THE TRUSTEES-THEIR PICTURES AND THEIR LIVES. 45 Rand Higgins. George Fisher. John Selby. Judson A. Roundy. W. J. Henry. Michael D. Gregory. John D. Bruster. James Durban. Joseph Oliver. George Wend- liiig. Anthony Thornton. Charles E. Woodward. Charles C. Scovil. Samuel W. Moulton. Cyrus Hall. COPY OF "FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF SHELBY MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY MDCCCLVI," (With 59 names of present residence of students). NAMES OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. - 66 A Complete List Alphabetically arranged. THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN. 72 SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE TEACHERS AND STU- DENTS. 75 Charles W. Jerome and Eugenia A. M. Jerome. Caleb C. Burroughs. Robert M. Bell and Eliza Huber Bell. Jasper L. Douthit. A Group of Four Sisters. Parkhurst T. Martin. George R. Wendling. Walter C. Headen. Dr. Penwell and Children. SHORT SKETCHES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS. 99 Jacob C. Miller. Ann E. Rhoads. lone F. Daniels.- Lou M. Mason. Mattie B. Smith. James M. North. Anna Headen.- Thirrissa Travis and others. A GLIMPSE AT MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED WHO RE- MAIN IN SHELBYVILLE TO THIS DAY. 103 ABOUT SOME WHO ARE SCATTERED ABROAD. - 110 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS. FAITH-HOPE-CHARITY. - 115 MRS. EUGENIA A. JEROME. INTRODUCTION. The object of the following pages is to rescue from oblivion whatever remains of the reminiscences and traditions of the in- stitution known at first as "Shelby Academy," and afterwards as "Shelby Seminary." Biography, individual achievements, and accomplished facts always possess great local interest to those who have been con- temporary and participants in whatever is attempted to be re- counted and preserved. The sailor, who has shared the perils of the sea, with his comrades never ceases in his love and respect for those with whom he has braved the dangers of the deep, and never tires in repeating or of hearing retold the story of the storrn, tempest and shipwreck with which he was connected. The same is true of the old soldier. He repeats the story of the tented field,, the bloody campaign and battles won. The name or achievements of his comrades, whether living or dead, never fails to thrill his heart with tenderest emotion, and to arouse his memory to recol- lections of his earlier and better days. The same sentiment of love and respect for those with whom we have shared pleasures, triumphs or discipline is equally strongly developed among those who have struggled through the village school up the Hill of Science. Attachments are there formed among students that last through life, and are intimately interwoven with our whole destiny: "Our earlier days! show often back The turn on life's bewildering track; To where over hill and valley plays The sunlight of our earlier days. It is greatly to be regretted that no more complete history of the work and influence of Shelby Seminary can be given than INTRODUCTION. is furnished by the fragments gathered by kind friends and here presented to the public. Much that was done, and the struggles that wera made by the noble men and women who sustained the institution in its darkest days, can never be written or known, and are lost forever. But the results of the efforts of the former friends of the Seminary, will be remembered with grateful hearts by the, then boys and girls, but now men and women, who were so fortunate as to be the recipients of instruction at the hands of Professor Jerome and the teachers in the insti- tution. These fragments of porsoiial history, of sunshine and cloud, will be read by friends and former students of the Seminary, we venture to predict with pleasure and deep interest. Their memories will be refreshed by many a pleasant reminiscence of old friends and sunny days. And doubtless many a hiatus in this narrative could be supplied from the memory of the reader and we hope it may be done, thus making the history more complete than it now is. These fragments will awaken old friendships, and former pupils will be carried back to the days when "Happy the school boy, did he know his bliss, 'Twere ill exchanged for all the dazzling gems That sparkle in ambition's eye." Of the former patrons of the Seminary many have passed to their last resting place. Its students are the citizens of to- day, and the county and state are profiting by the good seed sown during the fifteen years of the existence of the institution. We rejoice that this effort has been made to preserve whatever there is that remains to us of the grand "Old Seminary" whose influence for good by no means ceased with the ending of its existence. Its history is intimately connected with the pros- perity of our county, and its work greatly promoted the hap- piness of our best citizens. May the memory of it give pleasure to all. S. "W. MOULTON. Shelbi/rille, Illinois, July, 1886. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY. FOUNDING OF SHELBY ACADEMY, AFTERWARDS SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY. Prior to the year 1852, Shelbyville had no public school building. Our schools were taught, sometimes in one house; sometimes in another. The school fund yielded only a small amount, and the patrons of the school had to make up the de- ficiency of the teacher's salary. In the fall of 1852, nearly thirty-four years ago a feeling was awakened in the community, in favor of the erection of a substantial and commodious building, to be used solely for edu- cational purposes. Thirty-four years ago, our population was small; our people poor; and one-half of the territory of our present beautiful city was a forest. Then public enterprises moved slowly. After considerable consultation, however, and due consider- ation of all the difficulties, the citizens of Shelbyville, in October 1852, met and adopted a resolution to procure the necessary funds, to be applied to the purchase of ground, and the erection of suitable buildings thereon, to be used wholly as an insti- tution of learning. The next step was the selection of trustees. While it was universally agreed that the institution should not be, in any sense, sectarian, it was also suggested and generally acquiesced in, that it was safer and wiser and would be more con- ducive to success, to have the school under the protecting care of some church, and foster it by religious influence. Accordingly, in connection with the Rev. Hiram Buck, then the resident minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Shelbyville, the citizens agreed that the following persons should constitute the first Board of Trustees, viz: John D. 5 SHELBYVILLE SEMINABY ]\IEMORIAL. Brewster, Hand Higgins, George W. Fisher, Charles C. Scovil, Joseph Oliver, John C. Selby and Anthony Thornton. Then we had only one church building in town, the Meth- odist. The "Christian" organization worshipped in the old Court House. The association, thus formed, was a voluntary one, and to secure the purposes of the organization the board of trustees, at the first meeting, prepared and executed the following declar- ation : The undersigned, citizens of Shelby County, Illinois, having been re- quested by the "Shelby ville Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Episco- pal Church," to act as trustees for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, do declare, FIRST: That we will use our utmost efforts to obtain necessary funds, which shall be wholly applied by us to the purchase of necessary lots of ground, and the erection and completion of necessary and suitable buildings thereon, to be used solely as an institution of learning. SECOND: That said institution shall be located in Shelby ville, Illinois, and shall be called the "Shelby Academy." THIRD: That said institution shall be under the patronage of the 'Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church," which may appoint a board of visitors annually; but no profession of religious faith shall be required of those, who may become students therein, nor shall any sectarian doctrine of religion be taught therein. FOURTH : That the quarterly conference of the Shelby ville circuit of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall have power to nominate siiitable persons to fill any vacancies that may occur in the Board of Trustees, which nomination may be accepted or rejected by. the Board, for the time in existence. FIFTH : That the trustees shall have power to select and appoint nec- essary teachers, regulate the course of studies, fix the rates of tuition, erect necessary buildings and generally to manage the affairs and concerns of said Institution, and to do all that may be necessary for its success. SIXTH: That the Board of Trustees shall not exceed seven, nor be less than five. All the foregoing provisions shall be incorporated in a special charter to be hereafter obtained from the Legislature. Given under our hands and seals this 14th day of February, A. D. 1853. [SIGNED.] JOHN D. BREWSTER. [Seal.] , G. W. FISHER. [Seal.] BAND HIGGINS. [Seal.] CHARLES C. SCOVIL. [Seal.] ANTHONY THORNTON. [Seal.] JOSEPH OLIVER. [Seal.] SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 6 All the trustees signed the foregoing declaration, except Mr. Selby. He acted, in sympathy with the board, in all its efforts. Indeed all the members labored earnestly, in the accomplish- ment of the common object. Except the writer, all the trustees have gone to "The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns." 1 knew them well. They were men, good and true; and. were well suited to lay the foundations deep and broad of a happy and prosperous community. Substantial, industrious and enterprising pioneers, they removed the obstructions and pre- pared the way, for the present generation. The Board of trustees was organized, by the election of Charles G. Scovil as president, and the writer as secretary and treasurer. One acre of ground was purchased of Rev. William S. Prentice, tor three hundred dollars, and on the 24th day of March, 1853, a deed was made to the persons above mentioned "trustees of the Shelby Academy, and their successors in office." On the 22d day of April, 1853, we contracted with Andrew Scott, of Moultrie county, for the brick- work of the building; with Richard B. Miller for the carpenter's work; with John H. Dren- nan for the plastering; and with J. C. Campbell for the painting. The necessary funds were procured through the assiduous efforts of Rev. C. W. C. Munsell. He was earnest and inde- fatigable, and obtained subscriptions to an amount over four thousand dollars. No one man deserves more credit for the success of the "Shelby Academy" than Mr. Munsell. As some evidence of the public spirit of the time, and the liberality of the people, I furnish the names of subscribers, and the amounts subscribed by them. Rand Higgins subscribed $320; Gen. W. F. Thornton, $300; George Wendling, Charles C. Scovil and John D. Brewster, each, $250; Sarah J. Dexter, $150; C. W. C. Munsell, $200; George W. Fisher and John C. Selby, each, $120; William Head en, Charles E. Woodward, George W. Scollay, James M. Selby, Alexander 7 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Boys, Anthony Thornton and M. D. Gregory, each, $100; Jacob Golloher $75; J. A. Roundy $70; Burrel Roberts, S. W. Moulton, W. M. Osborn, Isaac V. Lee, R. B. Miller, George W. Hatfield, Shem Garvin, W. A. Harrison, Robert Pugh, Bart. Durkee, Henry Huber, L. Munsell and Joseph Oliver, each $50; Wm. Hardy and Wm. Eversole, each $40; E. G. Shallenberger $35; William Freyberger, John Middles worth, 'Wm. Davis, A. Mid- dlesworth, Porter Bivins, John R. Eden, John H. Dawdy, R. F. Chenny, W. B. Jackson, J. C. Campbell, John Cutler, Jacob R. Kellar, John L. Small, A. Dagan, AV. R. Bivins, James Durban, Daniel Downs, John Pugh, Benedict Weakly, Wm. Middles- worth, Wm. Hall and Daniel Golloher, each $25; Mason B. Kelly $30; Eli Waller, John L. Small, George C. Arnold, Thos. Calvert, Wm. Williamson, Lafayette Wright and C. D. Lufkin, each $20; I. Burnett, W. A. Trower, Josiah Garvin, Wm. Calvert, B. F. Phelps, Francis Winson, James B. Prentice, James M. Davidson, C. M. Stuart, B. F. Frazier, and Wm. Stewardson, each $15 ; Jacob Sittler, Michael Brown, Jacob Small, Franklin Thorpe, Wesley Golloher, Jacob Kensil, John Scroggins, Benj. Tallrnan, Wm. Williams, Henry Fearman, J. L. Br Turner, V. Tressler, James Gaskill, Thomas Reed, Wm. Miller, Jefferson Brewster, Thomas Roberts, Litton Smith, Wm. Carnes, Jacob Lump, James P. Roberts, A. H. Dutton, John L. Thomas and Franklin Hannaman, each $.10; Thomas Atkinson, James A. Robinson, George Rouse, Joseph F. Brown, John Webb, Wm. Patient, David Ewing, Charles Hart, Daniel Bowman, James M. Hall, Robert Weakly, Geo. W. Hardy, Stephen Waggoner, Russell Waggoner, James Cochran, David Storm, Thomas Carnes, James Weakly, John Weakly, James McDaniel, Win. Peifer, S. Severns and G. W. Clinkenbeard, each $5. There were a few other trifling subscriptions, which need not be enum- erated. All the work on the building having been contracted, its completion was pushed with a determination, deserving of suc- cess. The funds were promptly collected, and payment was SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 8 made for all material and labor. The building, when completed, was suited for the purpose intended. There was nothing ornate in the architecture. It was a substantial brick building, the second brick structure erected in the town, and it stands, to- day, a monument to the enterprise and liberality of the people, thirty-four years ago. The building was not ready for the teachers and pupils, un- til in the year of 1854 A corps of excellent teachers was em- ployed, and the "Shelby Academy" became a fixed fact. Good and noble men and fair and intelligent women were there edu- cated. This was the beginning of our present grand graded school. With some changes, the original trustees continued to act for a number of years. In the year 1857 the following resolution was adopted by the Board: Resolved, That the "Shelby Academy" be elevated to the grade of a Seminary proper, so there will be no preparatory department, connected with the same. From that time forward the humble institution was called the Shelby Seminary. In 1859, when the writer severed his con- nection with the Board, it consisted of the following persons: Cyrus Hall, Charles C. Scovil, Anthony Thornton, Judson A. Roundy, Charles E. Woodward, John C. Selby and George Wendling. The school was managed successfully, by this voluntary association, for thirteen years. On the 16th day of February, 1867, the legislature passed an act of incorporation, and the name of the old institution was changed to "Shelbyville Semi- nary," and the "Shelby Academy" ceased to exist. It elevated the standard of education, and brightened the pathway of our youth, who aspired to a higher excellency in learning. It has accomplished its mission, and is "numbered with the things that were." Memory loves to linger around the old building, review its history and recall the joy and pride which witnessed its com- pletion and success. I have thus given the salient facts in the history of the 9 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. "Shelby Academy." For nearly fifty years the writer has been a resident of Shelbyville. In that time the town has grown from a small, muddy and straggling village, to a beautiful city, with ornate dwellings, increased educational facilities, and with numerous churches whose spires point the way to Heaven. Fashion too has kept pace with the general progress. Home- spun manners and homespun clothing have disappeared. With all the changes there has been no improvement upon the indus- try and genuine hospitality, the kindness and honesty, the true manhood and sturdy virtues of the pioneers of the "olden time." ANTHONY THORNTON. Shelbyville, III, July, 1886. THORNTON. HISTOKICAL SKETCH OF "SHELBY SEMINARY." The foundation of the "Shelby Academy" building was laid late in the autumn of 1853, with the expectation that it would be ready for occupation in the following spring. The position of principal at $75 per month was offered to S. W. Moulton, who had settled in Shelbyville two years before. He declined, and after considerable search for the right man for the place the Board was fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Charles W. Jerome, who was then teaching in the Seminary located at Dan- ville, Illinois. Consequently, late in December, there appeared in the columns of the Shelbyville Banner, a weekly paper then published and edited by Phillip Shutt, the following laconic: SCHOOL NOTICE. The Trustees of Shelby Academy have secured the services of Mr. C. W. Jerome, A. B., as Principal of the institution. The school will be opened on the 16th day of March next. J. D. BRTJSTER, President of the Board of Trustees. December 16th, 1853. THE FIRST SESSION. The building was not ready for occupation at the time ap- pointed, and in consequence the "Academy" was formally open- ed on Monday March 20, 1854, in the old Methodist church which stood on North Morgan Street, where the residence of "W. W. Hess now stands, with Prof. Jerome as Principal; Mr. R. M. Bell as assistant, and about fifty pupils in attendance. After a few weeks the upper rooms of the new building were made ready for use, and to these the school removed and continued through its first session of twenty weeks, closing in the follow- ing August with a two day's examination, the results of which were entirely satisfactory to patrons, and exhibition, at the close of which an appropriate address was delivered by the Hon. S. W. Moulton. The following is almost a f ac-sirnile of the program of this first exhibition: 11 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. SHELBY ACADEMY. EXHIBITION. Thursday Evening, August 3d, 1854. ORDER OF EXERCISES. o-o PRAYER. MUSIC. SALUTATORY, Frank W. Peuwell. FAREWELL TO MY COUNTRY. B. M. Davis. ONWARD, Joseph Oliver. A "FERN LEAF," Francis M. Haydon MUSIC. OUR SCHOOL DAYS, Miss lone Gregory. TRUE FRIENDSHIP, Miss Mary H. Basye. CHARITY, Miss Sarah A. Beattie. A MOTHER'S LOVE. Miss Nancy M. Smith. MUSIC. GRATITUDE. John A. Williams. THE BEST OF WIVES, George Wendliug. DUTIES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, Peyton R. Story. SONG OF FROGS, John E. Trower. MUSIC. FORTITUDE, Miss Mary J. Beattie. BENEVOLENCE, Miss Mary J. Bruster. EDUCATION, . Miss Eliza Oliver. SMILES, Miss Esther Guilford. MUSIC. No Excellence without Labor, Charles B. Williams. American Literature, Zimri Ferguson. Natural History of Love, Nelson R. Jones Perseverance, Jasper Douthit. MUSIC. BENEDICTION. Next session opens Wednesday, Octob9r 4th, and continues twenty weeks. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 12 Of these first twenty who spoke pieces thirty-four years ago, so far as we know, seven have passed away from earth, namely: Joseph Oliver, Francis M. Haydori, Miss Sarah A. Beattie, Mary J. Bruster (Durkee), Chas. B. Williams, Zimri Ferguson, Nelson R. Jones; six now reside in Shelbyville, B. M. Davis, Miss lone Gregory, Nancy M. Smith ( Mrs. Chafee ), George R. Wendling, Eliza Oliver (Mrs. Oliver), Mary H. Basye (Walker), Jasper L. Douthit; Frank W. Penwell lives in Dan- ville and Esther Guilford (Davis) in Pana, this state; and John E. Trower in Chattanooga, Tennessee; and of the four others, we do not know where they are. The thoroughness of the work of the teachers and the fit- ness they displayed for the position they occupied, fixed the school in the hearts of the community. Its prospects had im- proved from the beginning. More than one hundred pupils had been enrolled during the first term. THE FIRST ACADEMICAL YEAE, 1854-5. It was advertised extensively for the next year as "Shelby Male and Female Academy," with Preparatory, Academic, and Scientific and Classical departments.' The building was de- scribed in the advertisements as "large and commodious," as it certainly was compared to the school houses most of us had been used to seeing. Rev. C. C. Burroughs, who had just completed the scientific course in McKendree College, was employed as Preceptor and teacher of mathe- matics, Mr. Bell continuing as assistant in the preparatory department. The school opened for the fall session October 4th, 1854, with an increased attendance and an enthusiastic working spirit which characterized it throughout its existence. The serni-annual examination of the various classes began on Tuesday, February 20, and continued three days. On the Sunday preceding the semi-annual sermon was preached by Rev. O. S. Munsell, A. M. On Wednesday and Thursday even- ings occurred "the young gentlemen's and ladies' exhibition." Following are fac-similes of the two programs: 13 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. SHELBY ACADEMY, EXHIBITION, Wednesday Evening, February 21st, 1855. Prayer. MUSIC. Literary address by A. THORNTON, Esq. Salutatory Francis M. Haydon, Indolence versus Industry, Baalis M. Davis, Change, William Campbell, Immortality of the Soul, William E. Horseman, MUSIC. Memories of Home, Miss Demma Parish. Deceitfulness, Miss Nancy Higgins, True Beauty, Miss Mary A. Cutler, Home, Miss Martha A. Fisher, MUSIC. The Drunken Husband, Elbridge A. Oliver, Adams on the Declaration, William E. Killam. The Starry Heavens, Philip Rcessler, The Baby's Complaint, Charles J. Dexter. MUSIC. Our School Days, Miss Mary C. Woodward, Happiness, Miss Adda Harmon, Friendship, Miss Maria Guilford, Anticipations of the Future, Miss Hester A. Collord. MUSIC. The Pastor's Soliloquy, George R. Wendling, Speech of Logan, Charles H. Woodivard, Portraiture of Boys, John E. Trower, "Jack Frost," Frank W. Penwell. MUSIC. Economy, Miss Mary J. Beattie, The Ball, I Miss Sarah A. Beattie, A Response, $ Miss lone Gregory, What I Love, Miss Maria Smith. MUSIC. BENEDICTION. Next Session opens Wednesday, March 7th. SflELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 14 SHELBY ACADEMY, EXHTBITION, Thursday Evening, February 22, 1855. Prayer. MUSIC. Literary Address by Prof. O. S. MUNSELL, A. M. MUSIC. The Vanity of Learning, Kossuth at Philadelphia, The Wants of America, Progress of Liberty, Poetry and Music, Gratitude, Consolations of Religion, Anger, Adams ar d Jefferson, Triumphs of Knowledge, "Solomor. Still weather," Lochiuvar, Pleasures of Memory, The Time to Die, Early Education, Recollections of the Past, The Flora, . March of Mind. Criminality of Duelling, The Patriot's Courage, Valedictory, Fieldon R. Waggoner, Eli J. Horseman, Samuel M. Fisher, William L. Fleming, MUSIC. Miss Sarah E. Graham, Miss Belle Beattie, Miss Mary J. Bruster, Miss Eliza Oliver. MUSIC. William Oliver, Andrew Roessler, James J. DurJeee, Nelson R. Jones. MUSIC. Miss Eliza Huber, Miss Julia E. Wunnenberg, Miss Mary E. Guy, Miss Ella Hall. MUSIC. Miss Dora Canon, Miss Lizzie Smith. MUSIC. James A. Horseman. Joseph M. Bivins, Burkey Myers, Jasper M. Douthit. MUSIC. BENEDICTION. Next Session opens Wednesday, March 7th. 15 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. All whose names appear in the foregoing programs stood in their places at the appointed time, if we remember correctly. Hon. Anthony Thornton, then editing The Okaw Patriot, gave a lengthy and very friendly critical notice of the various exercises. This notice was no doubt preserved in several scrap books as a valuable souvenir. But some who -may not have it now will be interested to read the following extracts: * * * There seems to be universal satisfaction as to the improvement of the scholars and the efficiency and competency of the teachers. The exhibition at night was also gratifying and pleasant, with one ex- ception. And that was the unusual jam. The Seminary Hall will seat comfortably, about three hundred; but, by some hocus pocus, nearly six hundred persons were crowded and wedged into it. Such a squeeze as there was on both nights of the exhibition, we never saw before. Essays were read by the girls, and select speeches delivered by the boys. All performed their parts well, so far as we could hear. Some, however, read and spoke too low, and with too much rapidity ; and consequently the audience could neither hear nor understand some of the compositions and speeches. We were particularly pleased, on the first night, with the folio wing essays: "True Beauty," by Miss Mary A. Cutler; "Anticipations of the Future," by Miss Hester A. Collard; "The Ball and A Response," by Misses Sarah A. Beat-tie and lone Gregory ; and "What I Love," by Miss Mariah Smith ; and the speeches of Elbridge A. Oliver, George R. Wendling, Charles H. Wood- ward, and Frank W. Pen well. On the last night the speeches were all good selections, and were well delivered. We thought that Fieldon R. Waggoner, AVilliam Oliver, Andrew Rcessler, James J. Durkee, Nelson R. Jones and Jasper L. Douthit evi- denced fine powers of declamation. We did not hear distinctly the reading of all the essays. The reading, as well as matter of the compositions of Misses Sarah E. Graham, Belle Beattie, Mary J. Bruster, Eliza Oliver, and Ella Hall, seemed to please the audience. "The Flora," a manuscript paper, edited by Misses Dora Canon and Lizzie Smith, attracted great attention. The articles were well written and were read with distinctness and fine mod- ulation. * The Shelby ville Band, on the first night, and the German Band, on the second night discoursed most excellent music to the delighted auditory. This exhibition will be long remembered by our citizens, and proves that we can have a good school in our midst; and is an encouragement to all to use every laudable effort to maintain it. The next term began as advertised on foregoing programs, on March 7th, 1855, and .continued until the forepart of July following, when that scourge, Asiatic cholera, visited Shelby- vine. On July 7th, 1855, Miss Mary E. Woodward, a beautiful girl of sixteen summers who was much esteemed by all her school- SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 16 mates and teachers, fell by the dread destroyer within ten hours from the time it first seized her, bright and happy as she was, at her lesson, and on the play ground. This sudden death greatly shocked the school. Several others were taken sick with symptoms of cholera; and the Seminary closed for that year some weeks before the end of the term. Jasper L. Douthit had been employed and advertised to continue the Primary Depart- ment during the summer vacation; but the contagion continued its ravages through July and August. Many of the inhabitants fled, until there was scarcely enough left in Shelbyville to bury the dead; and not enough to wait on the sick and dying. Many of the more generous patrons, some of the fairest piipils, the best beloved and the brightest withered away at the touch of the plague. Mr. John D. Bruster, one of the trustees from the be- ginning, was one of the victims. Among the young and promis- ing who passed away, we remember well, Willie Dexter, a round faced, dimpled-cheeked, bright-eyed boy, admired and dearly loved by all, and Miss Nannie Basye, a noble young lady, adorned with many graces; and several others whom this brief reference may help the reader to recall in memory. The number of students for the year. 1854-5, numbered 150. At the end of this school year Mr. Bell retired from the corps of teachers, Jasper L. Douthit taking his place for ensuing year, THE SECOND ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1855-6. The next academical year opened October 3, 1855. A depart- ment of music was added to the school, and Miss Nancy J. Phil- lips was employed as teacher of music. It was thought that His Satanic Majesty himself had been introduced into the institution, when a piano was secured for its use. The new demon proved to be quite harmless, however; indeed its influence was found to be very satisfactory. The corps of teachers for first term was Professor Jerome, Principal and Teacher of Mental and Moral Science and Latin; C. C. Burroughs, Preceptor and Teacher of Mathematics and Natural Science; Miss Nancy J. Phillips, Teacher of Instrumental 17 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Music, and Jasper L. Douthit, Teacher in the Preparatory De- partment. The semi-annual examination began on Monday, February 18, 1856 and continued four days. Rev. I. H. Aldrich delivered the sermon to the pupils and patrons the Sabbath preceding, in the Seminary Hall, from the text, "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." (John 13:17). The exhibitions occurred Wednesday and Thursday evenings February 20, and 21. Literary addresses were delivered by Prof. J. F. Jacques, A. M., "late President of the Illinois Conference Female College," and H. P. H. Bromwell Esq., of the Fayette county bar. The names of forty pupils appear on the two programs. The following are names which appeared in these two programs that did not appear in the first three of which fac-similes are given in foregoing pages, namely: "Wm. H. Dawdy, Chas. J. Dexter, Amos A. Rhodes, Edward Harris, Wm. H. Freshwater, Wm. S. Smith, Miss Lucy E. Jones, Henry R. Cheney, Peter M. Killam, Anson D. Sheley, Miss Emma L. McMorris, Miss Kate Smith, Miss Eliza Huber, T. H. Graham, Burkey Myers. Miss Olivia Smith gave the valedictory. The Spring and Summer session opened March 5, 1856. In consequence of the increasing demands upon the school, an as- sistant was added to the Primary Department, Mr. Burkey Myers being given the position as Assistant Pupil. At the end of the Fall and Winter term Miss Phillips resigned as Teacher of Instrumental Music, and Miss Olivia Smith was em ployed and acted as Teacher of Music for the remainder of that year. We suppose, of course, there were the usual closing exercises at the end of the year, in July 1856 ; but we can find no record of them. The First Annual Catalogue was printed for the year end- ing July 24, 1856. We append a copy of this catalogue at the end of this sketch. THIRD ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1856-7. Under the conviction that the severity of the labors inci- SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 18 dent to the position which he had assumed with reluctance two years and a half previously, were too great for his physical strength, in July, Mr. Jerome tendered his resignation. It was reluctantly accepted by the Board of Trustees, and Parker M. McFarland, A. M., was elected to fill the vacancy, for the en- suing year. Rev. Aaron M. Mace was elected to fill the second place on the corps of teachers, in the place of Mr. Burroughs who had also resigned. Mr. Douthit resigned also . ( with the purpose of going to Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, although he finally drifted to Wabash College, at Crawfords- ville, Indiana,) and Miss Eliza Huber took charge of the Primary Department. Miss Anne Maria Arnold succeeded Miss Smith as Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music. The Fall and Winter session opened October 1, 1856. The school was not wholly satisfactory under the new management. Mr. McFarland re- signed at the end of the first term. Messrs. Jerome and Burroughs had opened a book store in Decatur, 111. ; but on the resignation of Mr. McFarland, Mr. Jerome yielded to the earnest solicitation of the trustees and patrons to resume the Principalship, and Mr. Douthit was induced again to take charge of the Preparatory Department, while Mr. Mace remained teacher of Mathematics and Natural Science and Miss Huber teacher in Primary De- partment; and thus was completed the third year's good work. The closing exercises for the year began on Sunday mor- ning, July 19th, 1857, with a sermon, "highly apropos to the oc- casion" and "delivered in a masterly manner," by Rev. J. L. Crane. The examinations were held during Tuesday and Wednesday, July 20th and 21st. Tuesday evening was taken up with an address to the Platonian Literary Society by Rev. H. Sears, A. M., of McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois. Wednesday evening was occupied with a sociable for students and patrons, and of course was very enjoyable; it could never be otherwise with Mr. Jerome present. Mr. Crane, then stationed at Paris, Illinois, writes a charac- teristically spicy letter to the Central Clirixfian Advocate in re- 19 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAJL. gard to the Seminary at that time. He describes the building and compliments the teachers, Jerome, Mace and Douthit. He makes a good natured hit at "stingy old fogies" and "sore headed croakers." Then he refers to the Shelby ville Seminary and the educational interests of the Methodist Church in a manner so wise and suggestive that it deserves preservation, not only as a memento of Old Seminary days, but as the words of a noble man who was Chaplain to General Grant's first regiment, and who, being dead, yet speaks good advice to the thousands who loved him dearly as pastor, friend and brother. Mr. Crane wrote: Shelby ville Seminary is the only Seminary under the patronage of the M. E. Church that can accommodate the friends of education especially in our branch of the church, in Shelby county, Moultrie, and part of Christian counties. We hope therefore that our brethren on Sullivan, Williamsburgh and Shelbvville circuits, will regard it as their institution, rally around it, send into its halls, their sons and daughters, talk of its progress by the way and at the fire-side, recommend it to their neighbors, remember it in their prayers, and when necessity demands, give money liberally to advance its enterprises. If the Methodist Church sleeps over her educational interests, the devil will wake up his agents and the field will be taken from us, or other sister denominations will cultivate our ground, and reap the reAvard of labor, we should have performed, and wear our crown in the end. And we as a de- nomination, go into a dishonorable decline, and suffer the curse of the Almighty. It is not the design of the trustees of Shelby ville Seminary, to attempt to make of their institution anything more than a good high school or semi- nary. We have colleges enough, and God forbid that any more of our good, seminaries should spoil themselves, by aspiring to a college character. There is not a single college now in the State of Illinois, that deserves to be called anything higher than a good Seminary. And if every locality that can build a brick house and raise $10,000 or $20,000 endowment, and buy a musty four foot telescope, and scrape together a few crooked rocks and petrified snakes is to run up for a college, humbug will be Avritten on all our banners, and we will become in this matter, at least, the scorn of fools and the reproach of the wise. Char General Conference, to prevent this course of things in the M. E. Church, has passed an order that no college shall hereafter be admitted to the patronage of any of our Annual Conferences, unless she has an endow- ment of least $100,000. Some say that this is only advisory. If it be so, it is good advice and from a good quarter, and if not heeded by us, we will in no distant day suffer as great a penalty as i? it were the law of heaven. J. L. CRANE. Paris, III, July 22, 1857. SAM'L W. MOULTON. BHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL, 20 The enrollment for the year reached 237, of whom 70 were In the higher classes. We take these figures from the "Second Annual Catalogue of Shelby Male and Female Seminary, Shelby- ville, Illinois, for the year ending July 22, 1857." FOURTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1857-8. The following year the school opened October 1, 1857 with its usual prospects and attendance, Rev. W. H. Webster taking the place of Mr . Mace resigned. Mr. Douthit and Miss Huber also resigned. Miss E. A. Morrison, of Delaware, O.,was employed as Teacher of Instrumental Music, and Miss Ann E. Ehoads as Teacher in the Preparatory Department with Miss Minnie Gra- ham and Jacob Miller as Assistant Pupils. The semi-annual exer- cises occurred in February 1858, the two exhibitions being held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings February 17, and 18, 1858. On two dim sheets carefully preserved by the Principal are the programs of these exhibitions which we copy entire (not fac-simile, the sheets on which they are printed being too large for our pages) as follows: SHELBY SEMINARY EXHIBITION. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 185& ORDEB OF EXERCISES: PRAYER .................................................................. Rev. J, S. Barger. MUSIC. LITERARY ADDRESS ...................... by ........................ Hon. S. W. Moulton. MUSIC. I)Fr T, AM ATIONS ^ " Liber *y is Order," .............................. Charles C . Tickner. ) "A Highflown Description of Man," ............... Amos A, Rhodes. MUSIC. V aq A Y q 5 "Advantages of Education," .......................... ( Mies Ella M. Headen. l"A Colloquy," ........................................ I Miss Adelia A. Moore. MUSIC. TYRPT.AM ATTON8 ^ "Character," .................................... Albert R. Thornton. 1 } "Early Rising," ...................................... Byron P. Baker. MUSIC. MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO, ............ ( John Ward. A HWpnMHi? < Oscar E. Pen well. A RESPONSE ............................................................ ? Charles P. Lante. MUSIC. DECLAMATIONS ^ I'.?? 16 ^ me f , of Galileo," ....................... William T . Campbell. ' I "Hezekiar Stebbins of Pine Holler," ......... Charles S. Woodward. MUSIC. ESSAYS J "T! 1 , 6 . Use8 9 f Adversity," ............................... . . Miss Victoria Cutler. I "All is not Gold that Glitters," ......................... Miss Margery A. Oliver. MUSIC. , DECLAMATIONS \ I'SJ^I 1 ^ R* Human Nature," ................... Charles D. Horseman. " D \ "Dick Dilley's Stump Speech," .................. Jonathan N. Penwell. MUSIC. ORIGINAL ORATIONS- j "I 1 } 6 5?^* ^ e8( "" ........................ William Freshwater. ( JUiucation, ...................................... Nelson Neil. MUSIC. BENEDICTION. 21 . SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL* SHELBY SEMINARY EXHIBITION- THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18 r 1858.. ORDER OF EXERCISES: PRAYER Rey. James Wilson.. MUSIC. LITERARY ADDRESS by Hon. A. Thornton MUSIC^ r\vn AMAT10KS ^"Modern Republics," ff William J. Carnahan.. DECLAMAIlUJNb- ^ Smith < 8 g o lioquy on Matrimony r " Joseph Oliver, MUSIC. c-aa A va 5 "Beauties of Nature," Miss Pedie P. Parrish. ~ 1 "Act Well Yoar Part," Miss Nannie F. Wren, MUSIC. Turn AMiTTnvQ 5 "Downfall of Poland," Robert N. Barger.. DECLAMATIONS- j " The Whiskers," Joeebh H.Devlin. MUSIC. i?aa A vu ^ "Sunbeams and Shadows," Miss Fannie H . Travis. " } "Flowers," Miss lone Gregory. MUSIC. iwfr' i A M A T..Vi Scientific, - - 10.00 Classical, 12.00 Music, on the Piano, Melodeon, or Guitar, including use of Instrument*, extra, ------ 15.00 Drawing and Painting, extra. Incidental charges, per Scholar, - ... .'25 Vocal Music. ------- Free 25 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Candidates for admission must be qualified to enter the large Arithmetic, Grammar and Geography. Exercises in Reading, Orthography, Declamation and Composition, will be kept np during the Session. The number of pupils is limited to eighty. Parents wish- ing to send, will please notify us, that seats may be reserved; otherwise they may not pro- cure them. The services of a competent Preceptress, Miss ADA WARD, of Evanston, Illinois, have been secured for the coming year. On Monday evening Dec. 31, 1860, a grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert was given at the Seminary by Mrs. E. A. Jerome and pupils, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bouudy, Mrs. A. W. Chabin, Mr. E. H. Cook and Fred P. Harding. On this occasion the Cantata of the Flower Queen, by Geo. F. Root, was performed. From the elaborate and interesting program, printed at the Shelby Freeman office, we copy the following PERSONATIONS: QUEEN THE BOSK EVA JOHNSON. Recluse Carlie Sears. Sun-Flower Dora Canon. Crocus Margie Oliver. Dahlia Adelia Moore. Lily Ella Headen. Japonica , Mattie Roberts. Violet : Mary Cutler. Dandelion, Mattie Graham. Heliotrope Anna Headen. Mignionette Nannie Headen. Touch-Me-Not Antonia Wendling. Hollyhock Belle Woodward. f Mary Roberts. Pnnnioe Hattie Cutler. TT Q ., _ . llc $ i>o\o Dexter. Poppies, ~H Lizzie Tackett> Heather-bells, } Le 8t i e Van Dyke. L Rella Gregory. The object of this concert was to obtain money to be ex- pended in building a new fence around the Seminary grounds, making a walk and repairing the chimneys. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome were the moving spirits in this as in all similar enter- prises. It was a very successful and memorable concert, exceed- ing the expectations of the most sanguine; the only regret being that a larger room could not have been obtained to accommo- date the many who were unable to gain admittance. Tickets to this concert were 25 cents; children 15 cents. The amount re- quired to pay for the improvements would have been secured if all who came could have gained admission. Every one who witnessed the concert was charmed; and we venture the state- ment, that the Principal pushed forward the needed improve- SHELBY VILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 26 raents and saw them paid for. That way always his habit; and all the more so when the energy of a faithful helpmeet was add- ed to his own. The Semi-Annual Exhibition for this year occurred on Wednesday evening, February 6, 1861. The following is a copy of the program on that occasion: SHELBY SEMINARY EXHIBITION. ORDER OF EXERCISES: PRAYER. MUSIC, LITERARY ADDRESS by A. T. Hall, Esq. MUSIC. JOHN LITTLE JOHN John D. Bruster. A TEMPERANCE SPEECH John J. Kellar. MUSIC. AN ADDRESS TO THE ECHO George Copeland. STARS THAT NEVER SET Susan Penwell. MUSIC. GENTLEMAN AND IRISH SERVANT. IRISHMAN John B. Harris. GENTLEMAN William R. Austin. INDEPENDENCE Edgar Leach. MUSIC. DUTY OF LITERARY MEN TO THEIR COUNTRY.. Merton G. Baker. SPECTACLES Mattie A. Graham. MUSIC. THE UNION ; George A. Livers. FIRESIDE PLEASURES Adelia A. Moore. MUSIC. THE AUCTION: Characters: Auctioneer, G. V. Penwell. By-standers, Bidders, &c. THE SHADOWS WE CAST Fidelia McClintock. MUSIC. MARCH OF MIND... , Charles J. Dexter. CONNUBIAL CONFAB Mr. and Mrs . Tinder. MUSIC. THE RIVAL SPEAKERS: TOMMY TEOTTEB Mark M. Poteet. SAMMY SLY Eddie T. Schenck. ROBERT EMMET'S VINDICATION Eugene McClintock. MUSIC. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. . Frank W. Penwell. CLOUDS WITH SILVERY LININGS, with the Valedictory Carlie Sears. MUSIC. BENEDICTION. THE NEXT TERM Opens next Wednesday, February 13th, and continues Twenty Weeks. From a notice in the Shelby Freeman, of the above exercises, we copy the following: The exercises were very creditable indeed, both to pupils and teachers and posessed two commendable characteristics in particular variety and 27 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. brevity .... After the intermission, "Dixie" being called for, Fred P. Harding sang it most beautifully. But the treat of the evening without wishing to make any invidious comparisons was the literary feast furnished by A. T. Hall, Esq., in his address on "The Bible a School-book." We find nothing in regard to close of summer term, which was probably in July as usual. EIGHTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1861-2. The first term of this year opened Wednesday, September 11, 1861. Miss Ellen Hall and Miss Mattie B. Smith were the new teachers for this year. At the close of the winter term the ensuing February, there were no evening exhibitions. The closing exercises consisted of examinations in the various studies, interspersed with music, the reading of compositions by the girls and young women and declamations by the boys. Part of the music was furnished by a class which had been under the able instruction of Mr. Roundy. A communication to one of the local papers, written by one present, mentions a composition read by Miss Lizzie Tackett, "which, considering her age, reflected great credit upon the writer." "An original colloquy," says the same writer, "by Misses Eva Johnson and Mattie Graham attracted much attention by its instructiveness and fine showing of the ludicrous." Prizes were given to the most successful spellers, the first prize being Webster's Un- abridged Dictionary, which was awarded to "Master George Roberts." The spring and summer term opened Wednesday, the 12th of February, 1862, and closed the July following with two days examinations. In a communication to the Okaw Democrat signed "W. R. R," (which initials we take to be those of William R. Read, a Shelby ville lawyer who has since passed away), we learn that the closing exercises were 'conducted as on the year previous. The first morning (Thursday) opened with singing; followed with prayer by Rev. R. Holding. Horace Prince, Walter Headen, William Nichols, and Mertou G. Baker de- claimed; George Harkey and Eddie Wade spoke a dialogue; Mary Roberts, Jennie Babbit, Ellen M. Burr, Anna Swallow, GEORGE WEXDLING. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 28 Hattle Cutler, and Anna Headen read compositions. At the close of the afternoon's exercises, on Thursday, George D. Chafee gave an address on "Indolence", and at the close on Friday afternoon, Win. B. Bead gave an address on "Books and Beading." This ended the Eighth Academical Year of the school, first called Shelby Academy, but afterward and to this day, known as Shelby Seminary. Since the day it opened in the old Meth- odist, church in March, 1854, being about eight years and six months, it had steadily prospered and shed benign in- fluences in the region round about. We regret that meagre data prevents us, at this writing, from giving a more complete history; but of one thing we are sure, it had elevated the standard of education, and perceptibly improved the morals of the com- munity. Although the Principal and his Assistants had been compelled to contend against old-fogyism, prejudice and vice, they had overcome all obstacles, and had made its genial influ- ence widely felt. Its reputation was not simply local, but brought many students from a considerable distance. Now, for a second time (1862), Mr. Jerome resigned, this time to enter the army of the Union, where he served as First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of 115th Begiment of Illinois Volunteers until June, 1865. [We have, as yet, failed to get any record of the school, whatever, during Mr. Jerome's absence, although we hope to be able to give in succeeding pages of this memorial more of an account of the Seminary during that period. Suffice it to say now, that, as well as we can ascertain, the school was under the control of Mr. Thomas Easterday, for the first year, Mr. James H. Hess, for the second year, Mr. D. W. Jacoby for the first term of the third year and Bev. G. A. Pollock for the. last half of the third year. Miss Kate P. Smith taught in the school during Bev. Pollock's administration. Miss Ella Faut and, probably, Miss Fidelia McChntock, and others, were also teachers for some of the time during those three years.] 29 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. TWELFTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1865-6. On the return of Prof. Jerome from the army in 1865, he was promptly re-elected to the Principalship for the ensuing year, and continued at the head of the school until its close. Mr. P. T. Martin, afterwards editor of the Union, was chosen Preceptor, and Miss lone S. Daniels was placed in charge of the Preparatory classes. Mrs. Jerome, who had during the years of her husband's absence acted as Preceptress as well as Music Teacher, now continued as Teacher of Vocal and Instrumental Music. The Fall and Winter Session probably began in September 1865 and closed with the usual exercises of an exhibition "Wednesday evening February 7, 1866. The pro- gram for that evening was as follows: SHELBY SEMINARY EXHIBITION. WEDNESDAY EVE., FEB. 7th, 1866. ORDEB OF EXERCISES. PRAYER. MUSIC. Value of Time and Knowledge, Early Rising, - MUSIC. The Heroic Dead, "'Cicero in Catalinam." MUSIC. Formation of Character, - ^ Start Fair, or Don't be too Positive ! Dick, ------ Tom, Jim, Harry, MUSIC. Memory, Why Destroy this Government, Dissolve the Union? - ' MUSIC. The Celebrated Lecturers. Timothy Dobbins on Phrenology^ - Dr. Puff Snuff, on Patent Medicines, - 1st Constable, ___.-_ 2d Constable, Jake, Man, Be Happy, Our Country, Past and Present. "Des Knabe Lust," The Truly Beautiful, - Tommy Trotter, Sam Sly, Nobility of Labor, Home, MUSIC. MUSIC. MUSIC. The Rival Speakers. MUSIC. R. B. Middleton. Edgar Leach. F. D. Baker. C. P. Henry. J. T. Killam. A. W. Chabin. A. D. Guion. W. C. Headen. F. M. Finkbine. Maggie Foreman. Perry Williamson. Maria Brant. C. P. Henry. C. C.Murdock. H. C. Campbell. M. J. Verner. C. E. Hall. E. J. Travis. Ellen Huber. - E. H. Martin. . - Jacob Hibbel. Fannie Durban. C. W. Johnson. - W. C. Headen. E. A. McCracken. Eliza Brewster. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 30 Connubial Confab. Tom Tinder, - - - - W. A. Van Dyke. Mrs. Tom Tinder, - - Bella Gregory. MUSIC. An Appeal for the Union, - - E. M. Williams. Never, - ----- Nellie Marks . MUSIC. BENEDICTION. ^-The next Term opens on Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 1868, and continues twenty weeks. The Spring and Summer term closed this year, instead of in July as usual, in June. The exhibition was on the evening of Friday, June 29, 1866. The following students participated in the exercises whose names do not appear on the program of the February previous, namely: Ella Hunt, Cynthia Pugh, Mary E. Lantz, B. S. Brown, Minerva Corley, Phenia Graham, Josie H. West, Nannie Pugh and Belle Park. The attendance now was not so great as in previous years, partly on account of the increased efficiency of the system of public schools that had been established in the city, and partly on account of the opening of Okaw Seminary, under the patron- age of some of the former friends of the older institution. Rev. G. A. Pollock, of Kentucky, had been called to the Principalship of the old Seminary and had acceptably filled that position during the year previous to Mr. Jerome's return. Mr. Pollock was a gentleman of excellent character and much respected in the com- munity. He was elected to take charge of the new institution, called Okaw Seminary. Miss Kate H. Smith, a young woman of superior gifts and attainments and highly esteemed as a teacher, who had been associated with Mr. Pollock in the Shelby Seminary, was employed to assist in the new Seminary ; and of course this school drew considerable patronage, as it deserved. Nevertheless, in the character of its work, the Shelby Seminary continued the high standard exhibited in its earlier years, and, with hosts of friends, it went on in the glorious labor which it seemed peculiarly fitted to perform. THIETEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1866-7. This year opened September 12th, 1866. Miss Anna Headen succeeded Miss Daniels in the Preparatory Department. The other teachers continued as in the year previous until the end of 31 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. the winter term when Mr. Martin resigned and Miss Mattie Gr. Kerr succeeded him. The usual exhibition at the close of the winter term occurred Wednesday evening, February 13th, 1867. Rev. Mr. McElroy opened with prayer. Among those who took part in the exer- cises were W. H. Brownbaek, who declaimed on "The Wonders of Nature"; E. Leach, F. M. Finkbine and T. C. Lloyd gave a dialogue about "The Teacher in Trouble"; d 8. Milliken de- claimed on "Education"; twenty-three little girls and boys per- formed a "Medley" ; Minerva Gollagher read an essay on "Hap- piness"; J. D. Bruster declaimed "Pyramus and Thisbe"; C. W. Johnson, W. H. Walker, W. D. Roberts, W. A. Williams, L. S. Woodward, C. F. Shuman and O. P. McDowel had a dialogue on "April-Fooling the 'Skule Master' " ; and W. C. Headen "created considerable sensation," so W. J. Henry said,in a report of the exercises to the press, "by the oratorical success with which he declaimed 'The Heroine of Frederick.' " In a newspaper article noticing these closing exercises, it is said, that "while C. W. Jerome has carried on the Shelby ville Seminary for many years and while it has never been very lucra- tive to him, so far as dollars and cents are concerned, yet it has always been very satisfactory to patrons." "Shelbyville Semi- nary," says the writer of said article, "is noted for one thing more than perhaps all others, and that is the moral influence which it exerts, not only over the students but also over the community. Students here received a moral training as well as a literary one." This was a true testimony to which we think all who knew the school would agree. The Spring and Summer session began February 18, 1867, and closed with an exhibition on Tuesday evening, July 2, 1867. Edgar Leach, Charley Kearney, Minnie Fouke, Thirrissa Travis, S. H. Huber, T. C. Tyson, F. H. Slocum, Mattie Gollagher and C. H. Holding were among those whose names appear on the program for that evening. The Shelby Union, P. T. Martin editor, in a notice of the exercises, says: '"Never Despair,' by SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 32 Edgar Leach, was a fine piece, well delivered." A similar com- pliment is given to Wm. H. Brownback's "original oration." Walter C. Headen is spoken of as "a perfect little oral or" "The house resounded with applause" when Miss Mattie Gollagher recited "The American Flag," and the whole school sang most beautifully "The Flag of the Free." The Union concludes that, "the school was never in a more promising condition than now." Mr. G. K. Wendling, in noticing this exhibition in the Shelby County Times, said: "The oration of Mr. Callie Holding was the best performance of the evening in that line. It was well written, etc. . . . The essay of Miss Travis was a very able pro- duction The best declaimer of the evening was Fred Slocum In the musical performances the most noted feature was the singing of little Miss Ella Cleihents." Of the Princi- pal, Mr. Wendling writes: "There may be more profound scholars than Mr. Jerome; but we question if there be anywhere in the West a man of more power of discipline or a better edu- cator. He is one of the very best teachers in the state." In February, 1867, the school was incorporated under the name and style of "Shelbyville Seminary." C. C. Scovil, C. E. Woodward, W. J. Henry, James Durban, and S. W. Moulton constituting the Board of Trustees. FOURTEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAR, 1867-8. The year 1867-8, was begun September llth, with Mr. James M. North occupying the position of Preceptor, and Misses Annie Headen and Martha G. Kerr in charge of the Prepara- tory Departments as during the previous session. We find no account of the closing exercises of the Winter term, excepting brief reference in the local papers to the sociable or levee. The Union refers to this reunion of students and friends of the Seminary in Rouudy's Hall one Monday evening in February 1868: "The frolic of the children and the social enjoyment of the grown persons was an occasion long to be re- membered. The Young Men's Prayer Meeting which has been held in connection with the school, during the past session, 33 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. in view of Mr. North's departure, made him a present of a beautiful Bible as a testimony of their regard." Col. Smith made some remarks in which he alluded to "his last summer's ascent to the peak of Mt. Shasta, etc." The Central Illinois Commercial, edited by George E. Wendling, speaks of this "Seminary Sociable" thus: The students of Shelby Seminary gave a Cold Water Levee on the eve- ning of the 27th ult., which was well attended. The evening was passed in promenading and conversation, and enlivened by excellent music by the Seminary music class. Several prizes for excellence in in orthography and scholarship were distributed George W. Douthit receiving first prize and Miss Mary McKinney the second. For the remainder of the year 1868, the corps of instructors continued the same as the first term, excepting in the case of Mr. North, resigned; namely: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome, Miss MattieG. Kerr and Miss Anna Headen. On Thursday and Friday afternoons, of June 18th and 19th, 1868 the closing exercises occurred. They consisted of decla- mations, orations and essays, interpersed with music. We find on the program, in two parts, one for each afternoon, the names of seventy pupils, older or younger; but mostly younger, we must conclude. This was, probably, the greatest number who spoke their "little pieces" at ony one closing exercise in the history of the institution. We give below these two afternoon programs, in full: Thursday Afternoon, June 18, 1869. America, Aetna Francisco Disappointment Anna West No God, Emma Lloyd Affection ... ... Lizzie Francisco The Wasted Flowers, John Bell The Devoted, Belle Pugh Fine old ( olored Gentleman, . .John Fox j My Grandfather's old Clock Eva Lowe Hidden Treasures ra , nk Jarnagan Little Kays of Light, Lillie Cook The Life Clock Nor ton Spurgeou H ow Goes the Money? Emma Henry Profanity ...Edgar Saylori Common 8en Mmie Purnel i Ambition, False and True, . . .Duddie Gregory j Fashion, Susan Lowe A Hunting Excursion, -Milton Ducker; The Travels of a Sunbeam Dora Hall (jethseinane, Charley Kellar ^, O! Tell Her How I Died! Jerome Oliver Friday Afternoon, June 19, 1869. Hetty Me Ewen, Locke Pen well The Last Day of School,. . . Michael Wend] ing The Little Zouave, Eddy Dilley An Appeal to Arms Thomas Tyson Supposed Speech of John Adams, William Roberts Pleading at the Bar, Eugene Sumerlin LaFayette, Addison Cook The Present Age, John D. Bruster Self Made Men. (original oration) . Adolphus Sumerliu Boy and Butterfly, Charles Warriner Small Service is True Service,CharleyHaydon God Made all Things, Willie Brown Youth's Bible Hymn, Charles Webster The Two Faced Man, George Buffer The Maniac, Fred H. Slocum Birds, Mary Baily Vacation, Tillie Livers- Verses on Clay, Wibbie Cook How Cyrus Laid the Cable.. .Nim Woodward Trust in God and do the Right!. .Willie Eddy Excelsior, Ernie Steen Burning of the Ocean Queen, . . Horace Prince A German Speech, Julius Roessler National Anniversary, William Miller Touch Not, Taste Not, Handle Not . . . .Philo Fouke SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. S4 Out in the World, Letton Woodward Description of a City Alice Yost Sof orth, and So on Thomas Basye The Best that I Can, Ella Carroll National Debt, Abel Chabin Human Influence Lizzie Corley Eulogy on Henry Clay, Samuel Huber Labor, Mary Day The Fireman, Thomas Hollo way Baskets, Mary Hannaman Paul's Defence of Christianity, Vincent Lowe The Apple Tree, Hollie Parker Liberty, EssentiaHo National Prosperity, ,Last Day of School, Gnssie Fouke (Original oration) Wesley Johnson Beauty Eliza Barrett American Independence, Walter 1 leaden Words Mary Oliver The Hum Maniac, Alton Guion The Soldier's Death Clara McKibben History of a pair of Shoes, Mary Eddy Adventures of a Mdtase, Stella Gregory Tattlers, Allie Hardy jBaloon Ascension, Clara Wade Mourning on Earth, Jennie Barrett' A Dream, Rosa Cutler The Shelby County Times, June 25, 1868, R. Summerlin, editor, in noticing these exercises, expressed surprise that boys so young gave gestures and declaimed in "so perfect a manner. The older boys, also, did themselves great credit. * * There were two original orations delivered; one by Adolph Sumerlin and one by C. W. Johnson. Miss Susan Lowe's 'Burlesque on Fashion' was very good and just suits the times. * * The exercises were interspersed by excellent music by Mrs. Jerome's singing class." - The Shelby County Union of the same date, says : "There seemed to be considerable of friendly competition between the two divisions as to which went through the exercises in the most praiseworthy manner, and we have frequently been asked which we thought did the most credit to itself." But the Union prudently declines to decide, publicly at least, in a case "where all did so nobly." At the conclusion of the exer- cises on the last day, the Principal presented prizes of books to Walter C. Headen, Thomas HolloAvay, Lillie Cook and Alice Yost, for excellence in orthography. In a few, simple and touching re- marks, Mr. Jerome bade the pupils an affectionate good-bye, as his custom was on the last day of school, after which the music class rendered beautifully and tenderly : "We May Meet By and By." FIFTEENTH ACADEMICAL YEAH, 1868-9. The last year of the Seminary's work commenced Wednes- day, September 9th, 1868, the corps of instructors continuing as before, except that Miss Mary A. Hall was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. North. Miss Hall re- signed at the end of the Winter term and Miss Lou M. Mason was employed in that department. Miss O. J. Higby was also a teacher during that year. 35 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. We find no account of the closing exercises of the winter session. The only record found of that period is this brief notice in the Union of Jan. 28, 1869: SHELBY SEMINARY The Spring and Summer term will open next Monday, February 1, 1869. Terms, same as before. C. W. JEROME. But we gather from various sources that the work for the year was unusually successful, and in June, 1869, closed with the usual public examinations, and with one last exhibition. Familiar names are found in this last program: SHELBY SEMINARY EXHIBITION. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18th, 1869. ORDER OF EXERCISES. Song and Chorus We Come, Dear Friends to Greet You .................... By The School. Instrumental Solo La Chatelaine ............ . ................................... Anna West. Declamation The Sailor Boy's Dream ................. .............. Thomas T. Holloway. Song Whistling Chorus ....................................................... Several Boys. Declamation The Unknown Soldier, or Somebody's Darling .................. Clara Wade. Duet-Listen! 'Tis The Woodbird's Song... .... ..... CANTATA OF THE MONTHS AND SEASONS. Opening Chorus A Year Has Come .................... ,> ........................ The Class. January Solo .................................................................. Stella Gregory. February Solo ................................................................ Esther PenwelL WINTER CHORUS. March Solo ....................................................................... Anna West. April Solo ............................................ , ........................... Rosa Cutler. May Solo and Chorus ......................................... Mollie Parker and Ida Collins. SPRING TRIO AND CHORUS. June Solo ...................................................................... Anna Headen. July Solo ........................... . ...... ................................... Ella Martin. August Solo ................................................................... Maggie Fouke. SUMMER TRIO AND CHORUS. September Solo ........................................ Misses Cynthia Pugh and Belle Park. October Solo ........................... '. . Misses Lizzie Middlesworth and Florence Young. November Solo .................................................................... Dora Hall. AUTUMN TRIO. December Solo ......................................... ....................... Lizzie Tackett. Chorus by the Twelve-Months. WOMAN'S RIGHTS, A COLLOQUY. AtflrrnaHve. Eliza M. Barrett, Florence Young and Clinton Middlesworth. Negative, Celia Weakley, Mary E. Hannaman and Alfred H. Weyand. Song The Burlesque Band ..................................................... Several Boys. Instrumental Solo Queen of the Fairies .................................. Mrs. Ella Martin. Declamation Rienzi's Address to the Romans ........... ..... . .......... Eddie Housem . Instrumental Duet-A. B. C. . . . ) ^Sc^\ DTALOOTE IGNORANCE AND WILFULNESS . Student ........................................................... Edward A. Cook. Deacon Homespun ................................................... Philo Fonke. Minister ..................... ........................................ Locke Penwell. Instrumental Solo Convent Bells ....... ........... Lizzie Tackett. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 36 Solo and Chorus The "Singin Skewl." Comic '. Declamation Spartacus to the Gladiators Fred Slocum. Solo and Chorus Ram on The tloof Mr. Jerome and four young Misses. < Mrs. Jerome. Instrumental Duet Home, Sweet Home ^ jj rs Dannie Guilf ord This ended the direct work ot the institution which for fifteen years had afforded the youth of Shelbyville and vicinity a most excellent means for acquiring an education. The mission of that which was at first the "Shelby Academy" and afterwards the "Shelbyville Seminary," was accomplished; the establishment in the city of a system of public schools, with a high school that could take the place of the Seminary, pre- pared the way for its discontinuance. In August, 1869, the Seminary property was transferred to the Board of Education of the Shelbyville Graded Schools, which had obtained a charter at the previous session of the Legislature, the Board of Education assuming and paying the indebtedness thereon, amounting to between 8600 and 8700. Prof. Charles L. Howard, one of the most, if not the most, energetic and efficient Principals of our Public Schools since the Seminary ceased to be, had occasion, in preparing a chapter on the schools of Shelby county for our County History (pub- lished in 1881 ) to inquire into the history and workings of the Old Seminary. The result of his inquiries is given in that chapter, and in a more extended form in the pages of the Shelby- ville Democrat, then edited by Dr. E. E. Waggoner. (By the way, to those papers the writer of the present sketch is largely indebted for valuable suggestions.) Prof. Howard concludes his sketch in the following terse and true words: "The examinations of the Seminary classes were always public, and of such a thorough character as to make them always interesting. The fre- quent lectures by prominent men before the school, arid its own exhibitions contributed largely to form the taste for rational amusements ihat still re- mains in the community. No one can estimate the value of the work of the institution, or the extent of its influence, though in many respects it was unpretentious, as compared with similar institutions it never spoiled itself by trying to be a college. Its patrons speak of it with pride, and its children cherish the memory of the old days as among the happiest in their lives. Its Avails may crumble and decay, but long will the 'Old Seminary' live in the hearts of those who knew and loved it." 37 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL, CHANGE ! CHANGE ! CHANGE ! To many who attended during the later years of the Semi- iiary, some of the names in the earlier catalogues and programs may seem strange; yea, some names that were once well known may have been so changed, ( and in case of the girls hidden by surnames), as not to be recognized by the old teachers and schoolmates who knew them, then, as Willie, Eddie, Frank, Delia, Demma, Minnie, Maria, Mollie, etc., etc. But to most of the readers of this sketch the names which occur on the pro- grams of the last years will seem familiar as household words. Looking back, it appears but a few brief months, or years at most, since the Old Seminary grounds resounded with the voices of "The playful children just let loose from school." Less than twenty years ago most of those whose names ap- pear on the last two programs were boys and girls, not yet all in their teens. Now they are men and women, and several of them husbands and wives and fathers and mothers. Nearly all, as we remember, were born in Shelby ville and vicinity and were at home with parents while they attended school. But now they are scattered far and wide, from the northwest "where rolls the Oregon," to the far West and South. Some, we think of, are in the "Lone Star" state. Some are doctors, some lawyers, some editors, some printers, some merchants, some carpenters, and others are teachers. A few remain with us to this day; while others, whose sunrise of life seemed most radiant, have already vanished forever from the earthly homes they bright- ened. "Change is stamped on everything." The writer re- members, distinctly, these words, the first sentence in the third declamation, given at the first exhibition thirty-two years ago, by one whose earthly body has long since answered the summons to decay. Yes, "Change is stamped on everything," earthly. This summer, the walls that then echoed with happy young voices now resound with the mason's trowel and the carpenter's hammer. The old walls are having new windows, and the old rooms are being changed and remodeled to accommodate the MICHAEL D. GREGORY. SHELBYVILLE SEMINAKY MEMOEIAL. 38 overflow of little folks from the large, but crowded public school rooms. Of the seven hundred children who now go to our schools, some of whom will recite in the Old Seminary rooms next fall, none were born when those of eighteen years ago who are now men and women aye, fathers and mothers, some of them spoke their final pieces and sang their farewell songs within those same brick walls. "So the multitude goes, like the flowers or the weed That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has ever been told," AFTER THE LAST CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE SEMINARY. TOKENS OF ENDUEINQ REGARD. During the period of Mr. Jerome's long labors in the school and for the community, the students and friends to whom he gave himself in enthusiastic service frequently expressed their appreciation by some token of esteem and love. One of these tokens was a "time keeper," made of the most precious metal, which was presented to him in the Seminary Hall at the close of one of the first years of the school. The presentation was made in a neat speech by the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Hon. A. Thornton. We presume that that same gold watch beats to-day near the heart of the teacher who, grown venerable in years, still delights to keep green the memory of all his friends and pupils. In some parting words spoken thirty years ago, and pre- served in a scrap book of one of his pupils, Mr. Jerome said: ''Finally, kind friends, loving pupils, one and all, Farewell ! Your names have been carefully placed in 'Memory's precious jewel casket,' not to be forgotten." This we remember was a favorite phrase with Mr. Jerome, and, evidently, because it so truly and beautifully expressed the sentiment of his heart. And now, after fifteen years service, precious metal of another kind and in another form, is presented him as a parting 39 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL, token of gratitude; and this time the presentation speech is made by one who was not born when the first token was presented. The Union of July, 1869, alludes to the incident as follows: It being understood that this was the close of Prof. Jerome's labors among us as an instructor, the students took opportunity to make the close of the exhibition the occasion for testifying to the esteem in which they held him by presenting him with a most beautiful and valuable silver set, con- sisting of a teapot, sugar bowl and cream pitcher. The presentation speech was made by Miss Ella Clements, a young lassie of twelve or thirteen sum- mers, who performed her duty most admirably. Prof. Jerome accepted the gift with a neat and appropriate speech, after which the audience of five hundred persons, all the hall would accommodate, dispersed to their homes. FINAL RESIGNATION OF PEOF. JEROME. The following appeared in the local papers of Shelbyville in July, 1869: Circumstances compel me to ask a release from the position, which by the favor and forbearance of the Board of Trustees and friends, I have held for the past fifteen years. I am aware that I sacrafice somewhat upon re- tiring, yet, I do it advisedly, as most congenial to my own feelings, and cer- tainly best for the school. With many thanks for favors, and with the kindest feelings for all, I have formally and finally resigned the Principalship of the Institution. The whole number of different students who have attended during the time I have had charge of the Institution is one thousand and sixty two. Of this number seventy-four now sleep in the "chamber of clay." Eighty- four were in the army, seventeen of whom laid down their lives in the cause of our country. Five fell while nobly and bravely defending the old flag. One fell mortally wounded at Ft. Donelson one at Pea Ridge, one at Baton Rouge, one at Chancellorsville, and one on the bloody field of Chickamauga. Eleven died in camp and hospitals from wounds, and diseases incident to army life. Two died- in the prisons of Andersonville, and one was a confed- erate soldier, and died a prisoner in the Federal lines. Two have been assasinated, and three have been drowned. A few have been lost sight of entirely. Many others are, to-day, scattered, here and there, all over the land. "One boon I crave for each ! I ask for all, Master ! Thy still small voice this day may call; And guided by its sound, they each may go, And drink the Fount, whence living waters flow; May all at last be found to claim their share, A crown a mansion in the Kingdom fair !" There have been connected with the Institution thirty different teachers and assistants. Three of these have passed "to that undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveller ever returns." The teachers have been in labors, in efficiency, and in fraternal kindness, all that could be desired. The agreeable, and we would fain hope useful relation we have held to the Shelby Male and Female Seminary, is now, in God's Providence, sun- dered forever. The duties of the station have been arduous and- trying, yet SHELBY VILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 40 with accessory aid, \ve liave been enabled to go through with them in a manner, we hope, somewhat, satisfactory to the friends and public. That we have erred is quite probable, yet we have done the best we possibly could under the circumstances. To the friends of the Institution we are under untold obligations for filial regard and kindness. Our pupils, the sharers of the largest place in our affections, have reciprocated love for love. Life has not been without its thousands of cares and vexations, yet the last fifteen years spent within the walls of Shelby Seminary, have passed happily away, and not entirely without hope, that some small fraction has been accom- plished. Finally, kind friends, dear pupils, one and all, farewell ! * * * To you the future is radiant with hope. For us to live is to labor, and ac- complish all that is in our power. We know not where our grave will be made. We had thought it might be in one of your own beautiful ceniete ries, by the side of the loved ones gone before. It may be among strangers it matters not. May we meet in heaven ! "Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home, His rest at every stage." C. W. JEROME. A FAREWELL MEETING AMD A JUST TRIBUTE. The Shelby County Union of August 25th, 1869, in a well written editorial, pays a richly deserved tribute to the retiring Principal and his .worthy wife. It says: "For fifteen long and laborious years has Prof. Charles W. Jerome been the respected and highly efficient principal of Shelby Seminary, and the time has now come when duty beckons him to another field of usefulness, and before he takes his de- parture he called upon his pupils and friends, old and young, to 'Come, let us once more take you by the hand before we part.' "In response to the summons, on Friday evening last, a large number of friends and former students met together in the Semi- nary grounds, to grasp, it may be for the last time this side 'the River,' the hand of a beloved teacher and friend. Among the number were several who were there as students fifteen years ago. For the evening, years were seemingly ignored. All came together as of yore, and all seemed to enjoy themselves most heartily. At a late hour the meeting broke up; the last good-bye was spoken, and each returned to his or her home, to think of their happy school days, and the pleasant memories brought to mind by the associations of the eveliing. 41 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. "Not alone lias Mr. Jerome labored. 'As a teacher of music his estimable and accomplished lady has divided with him his seasons of joy or sorrow; of sunshine and shadow, and along with him shares the well deserved affection and respect of all who have beep in any way connected with them; and when the time shall come which transfers them from our midst, they bear with them the best wishes and kindliest regards of hosts of friends, and if it is not permitted that we should meet this side of eternity may we all be prepared to meet in heaven." ( ANOTHER RE-UNION, IN 1870. Another re-union was held August 30th, 1870, when the "dearie days" were again lived over. The following account of it was written by one of the participants: "On Tuesday evening, August 30th, there was a large number of pupils and teachers of Old Shelby Seminary, assembled at the Seminary grounds, called together by a vacation visit to this place, of the former Principal, Prof. C. W. Jerome, who now pursues his profession in a city far away in the Sunny Land of the South. "The grounds, which were nicely illuminated with Chinese lanterns, were filled to almost overflowing with a chatting, laughing handshaking company of all ages, from the prattling child to the gray-headed old man of three-score and ten. "After a season of congratulation and social enjoyment, the company was called to order, and Mr. Jerome taking station xipon the door step rehearsed some of the more prominent points in his career as Principal of Shelby Seminary, from its beginning in 1854 to its final winding up and niergement into our newly organized system of Graded Schools in 1869, stating as well as his memory would permit the number of students he had enrolled, and what had become of them. "He was followed by Rev. J. L. Douthit, a former pupil and teacher, Col. D. C. Smith, Prof. Hobbs, Superintendent of city schools, and others, in short speeches pertinent to the occasion. The writer of this, a former student and teacher, also made a few scattering remarks. About half-past ten o'clock the happy company dispersed, perfectly delighted with the arrangements and incidents of the evening." "THE PLATONIAN SOCIETY." On November 14, 1855, at the suggestion of the Principal, certain of the older male students organized the "Platonian Literary Society." Jasper L. Douthit was elected President and Thos. H. Graham, Secretary. The dim pages of an old diary SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 42 tell the story of the painful experience of the first President in assuming his novel and arduous (?) duties. We copy a few sentences from this diary, just as they were hurriedly written in pencil at first and afterward traced more leisurely with ink: Nov. 14, 1855. A Society organized in Academy, to be called Platoneon Society. Elected me President. It appears impossible for me to act, but I was too timid to decline. O! whoever felt as I do! 16th. Distress- ed. Tried to get Mr. Burroughs to occupy the chair; but he wouldn't. Took it mvself. Got along tolerably well. Some little disturbance. I gave the decision in favor of F. R. Waggoner, champion of the negative. On ad- journing it was agreed that I present the thanks of the society to Messrs. Jerome and Burroughs for their kindness in assisting the society, which I did at 11 P. M., before going to bed. This now amusing record so seriously experienced at the time, will not seem strange to hundreds who have in their earlier years suffered at what in after years they have recalled with a smile, to think how much they magnified little trials. However, this society is rernembeied by several who will soon be old men as a pleasant and helpful part of the dear old school. In the catalogue of that first year, ending July 24th, 1856, it was said: The Platonian Literary Society offers every advantage for improvement in discussion and literature. The meetings are held weekly, and when the student is prompt, and an effort is put forth for a proper performance, the benefits that accrue therefrom are numerous and very perceptible. A similar statement was published in succeeding catalogues until 1859. Just when that very interesting lyceum with the pretentious adjective "Platonian" ceased to be, the writer regrets not to know. No record of it has come to light, at this writing, except that in the old diary and catalogues quoted above. But blessed be the memory of it, and of the fellow stu- dents who at the end of each school week met in that north room of the Old Seminary to train in oratory and engage in lively de- bate on important qxiestions the questions were all "very important." "Mr. President, this is a very important question!" was the phrase with which each amateur speaker usually began the debate; it was about all the language he could readily com- mand on first taking the floor. 43 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. One question that, because of its exciting and somewhat ex- plosive character, we were inclined to avoid in our debates then, the question of the evil of African Slavery, has since been settled forever, thank God; but alas! in a manner bloody and sorrowful for thousands and thousands. But there was one serious and very practical question then debated by those young Platonians that is still open for discussion and as serious and practical as ever. From the old diary referred to, we learn that the question discussed on the evening of January 18th, 1856, was this: "Is a Prohibitory Liquor Law Essential?" The diary reads: "I took the negative and lost the question." By the way, what is a little remarkable, (after so many marvelous changes every way, and after the frosts of thirty winters have fallen upon the heads of those who then engaged in trying to solve the temper- ance problem, ) that same person who argued against prohibition, for once at least, thirty years ago and "lost the question" stood this summer in that same old room and near the same part of the floor to report favorably for Prohibition. But this ques- tion of questions among philanthropists and legislators is not yet settled not yet really "lost" nor "gained"; although the times are full of hopeful prophecy, and we are very sure that not a single teacher nor but very few pupils of the Old Seminary but will rejoice to have this question settled forever, so that " The fire shall go out in the still, And the worm that has nursed it be dead; Its ruins give place to the mill, To feed all the people with bread. CHORUS. In the sweet bye-and-bye, O! welcome that beautiful day! In the sweet bye-and-bye, When Christians shall act as they pray." CYRUS HALL. THE TRUSTEES. According to the records found, there were fifteen different persons who were elected and acted as trustees of this institution, from the first to last It has been difficult to ascertain the exact order of election of all the trustees, or the precise period for which every one served. It will be seen, according to the original declaration printed on fifth page of this memorial, the Board of Trustees could not exceed seven* The first seven con- sisted of John D. Bruster, Rand Higgins, George W. Fisher, Charles C. Scovil, Joseph Oliver, John G. Selby and Anthony Thornton. The names of the Trustees as printed on the four different catalogues, being the only catalogues so far as we can learn that were ever printed, appear in the following order: TEUSTEES IN THE FIRST CATALOGUE FOR THE YEAE ENDING JULY 24th, 1856. Charles C. Scovil, President; Anthony Thornton, Sec- retary; Rev. George W. Fisher, Rev. John C. Selby, Charles E, Woodward, George Wendling, Michael I). Gregory. TRUSTEES IN THE SECOND CATALOGUE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 22, 1857: Charles C. Scovil, President; Hon. Anthony Thornton, Sec- retary; Re\. George W. Fisher, Rev. John C. Selby, Charles E. Woodward, George Wendling, Michael D. Gregory. 46 TRUSTEES IN THE THIRD CATALOGUE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 22, 1858: Charles C. Scovil, President; Hon. Anthony Thornton, Sec- retary ; Rev. George W. Fisher, Kev. John C. Selby, Charles E_ Woodward, George Wendling., Michael D. Gregory. TRUSTEES IN THE FOURTH CATALOGUE FOR THE YEAR ENDING JULY 20, 1859 1 Charles C. Scovil, President; Hon. Anthony Thornton, Sec- retary ; Eev. George W. Selby, Charles E. Woodward, George Wendling, Michael D, Gregory, The following record,, made by Judge Thornton, the faith- ful secretary for many years, of a trustee meeting, tells its own. story. We copy verbatim and in the form recorded by secretary : November 15, 1859. Cyrus Hall elected trustee in place of George W. Fisher. Judson A. Roundy elected trustee, in place of M. D. Gregory, resigned. Present at this meeting:- C. C. SCOVIL, Pres't, C. E. WOODWARD, J. C. SELBY, GEORGE WENDLING, ANTHONY THORNTON. This same year of 1859, sometime after above date of Nov- ember, Mr. Thornton severed his connection with the Board. (See page 8). In 1867, the year the school was incorporated under the name of "Shelbyville Seminary," we understand that C. C. Scovil, C. E. Woodward, W. J. Henry, James Durban and S. W. Moulton constituted the Board of Trustees; and these gen- tleman probably continued in office to the end. It will be noticed from the foregoing names, by those ac- quainted with the parties who were from time to time on the Board, that there were always a majority from the Methodist Church. This was the agreement from the beginning. The Trustees who were not members of that church were Thornton, Gregory, Woodward, Roundy and Moulton. At a meeting of the Board of Educafion of the Shelbyville Graded Schools, held August 18, 1869, it is recorded that " the 'SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 4? 'committee on deeds Avas requested to secure quit claim deeds to 'the Seminary property from Anthony Thornton and Joseph Oliver, the surviving members of the original Board of Trustees of said Academy." Since then "Uncle Joseph," as he was i-everently called, 1ms been gathered to his fathers, leaving Judge Anthony Thornton the sole surviving* one of those six good citizens who thirty-three years ago next St. Valentine's Day gave their hands and seals as members of the Board of Trus- tees at their first meeting. Of the fifteen above named Trustees, only five are now 011 earth, .namely: Roundy, Woodward, AVendling, Durban and Thornton. Mr. Roundy moved to Milwaukee, Wis., several years since, while the others still walk our streets and attend to their daily duties as of yore. To-day, the writer has seen Mr. Wood- ward at his office, in the Star Mills, where he may be always found, early and late, greeting customers pleasantly, and, in leisure moments, reading the daily papers; we have talked with Judge Thornton in his law office and examined some of the old records so carefully preserved by him since the time he acted as clerk; we have greeted Mr. Durban, smiling as ever, but under the frost of years, as he carries a grand-child in his arms to visit a neigh- bor; and at even tide we have been seated for a pleasant chat con- cerning Old Seminary days beside Mr. Wendling on the porch of his cosy cottage, built on the same ground where he has lived and wrought for half a century, for many years at the smith's forge, but of late years he is content to dress the vines and fruit trees that surround his home and spend his leisure in read- ing and neighborly visits. THEIK PICTUKES AND THEIK LIVES. We are pleased to present in these pages portraits of a feAV of the trustees, and regret that our readers may not behold the likeness of every one. There was the Rev. George Fisher with dark, earnest eyes, overshadowed with heavy brows, and with a stentorian voice that thundered law and gospel to arouse sleepy sinners to repentance; there was Rev. John Selby, a farmer and 48 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL local preacher, who moved to town, near the Seminary, that his children might be educated for usefulness. Neither of these men were rich in this world's goods; but each subscribed 120 a big sum in those days to build the school, and they were will- ing to do more. We must not forget Rand Higgins whose name stands at thfc very head of the list of subscribers for the founding of the Academy; and he was a man to give more, it' he were able and it was required. Mr. Higgins was the enter- prising miller who owned the water-mill down by the railroad bridge where only a part of the dam remains to mark the spot. There Mr. Higgins ground honest bread for the people for many years; and in order to accommodate more people and do better work, lie added to the water-power, a steam engine the first en- gine, we believe, for grinding wheat and corn that was used in this county. But this accommodating and ambitious miller reached beyond his depths, and passed away, after weary years, under som'ething of a cloud, financially; nevertheless he did not lose all; he was wise and good enough to invest in the building of an institution that has helped to educate a generation who rise up to bless his memory; Band Higgins thus laid up treasures in heaven. JUDSON A. ROUNDY. Judson A. Roundy has already been alluded to in these pages as a devoted friend and generous helper of the Seminary. He was an excellent man possessed of great business tact, quick wit, fine culture, and quiet, modest manners, a member of the Baptist church, bat charitable to all. The people of Shelby ville lost a very useful citizen when Judson A. Roundy moved away. W. J. HENRY. W. J. Henry was a resident lawyer of marked ability, and had extensive practice in Shelbyville for many years. He was also the author of a valuable book of reference on "Ecclesiastical Law;" he also wrote and published a somewhat elaborate treatise on the trial and crucifixion of Christ, entitled "Cross and Crown." Mr. Henry moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1882, and died SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 49 there in 1885, from injuries received by accident. He was a man of great public spirit, of genial nature, of very studious habits, and a devoted friend of the Methodist church, of which he was an active member. MICHAEL D. GKEGOEY. Michael D. Gregory was born in Cayuga county, N. Y., December 12, 1814; came to Illinois in 1834; was married to Miss Abby J. Cannon of Norwalk, Ohio, in 1841. By this marriage he was father to seven children, three sons and four daughters. He died the eighteenth of August, 1864, and three of his chil- dren, whom many of us remember' so well at the old Seminary, namely: his son, De Leon, and the two fair daughters, Bella and Stella have joined their father. Mr. Gregory was a man of active business habits; he was engaged in real estate, farming and mercantile business at different periods of life. He pos- sessed many good traits, was an ardent friend, hospitable to all, a good neighbor, an enterprising citizen and always ready to favor in our midst educational institutions. His face and bearing was open and frank and bespoke the courteous gentle- man that he was; and so his friends love to remember him. JOHN D. BEUSTEK. Who that lived in Shelby county in early days and until the year 1855, does not remember one very conspicuous, manly figure on the streets of Shelby ville? It was Capt. John D. Bruster. He was born in Tazewell county, Virginia, May 30, A. D. 1798. He came to Shelby ville at a very early day (in 1827 or 1828) and built a house and started a tan-yard at the top of the hill on the east side of town. The hill bears his name to this day. He was married twice, the last time to Miss Isabel Stewardson a noble English woman who died a few years before he was carried away with the cholera. He was a man of large physique, tall and upright, with long, flowing beard and dignified bearing, and with a very emphatic manner of speech. His personal appearance, as we recall it, reminds us of one of the pictures of a grand old Knight of the days of chivalry. 50 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. His daughters, Sarah ( who became the wife of Mr. William Roland) and Mary Jane, (who married her school mate at the Old Seminary, Mr. Jarne's Durkee) have many years since fol- lowed him to the Great Beyond, and only " Jeff " and Eliza (Mrs. H. S. Mouser) and John D. are left of his sons and daughters, to keep green his memory. One of the first Trustees and a generous subscriber to the building fund of the Shelby Seminary, he was among its most faithful friends till death took him ; and for that we would hereby honor his dust. JAMES DUEBAN. James Durban was born in the city of Chichester, England, September 23, 1816; he emigrated to America and was settled in the State of Ohio in 1830, and from thence he came to Shebyville, Illinois, in 1852. He was married to Miss Sarah Huber in Fairfield county, Ohio, February, 1846, with whom he lived happily and raised a small family (two daughters now living and a son that has passed on before) for forty years; and a few days after the celebration of their fortieth wedding anni- versary she passed to the Better Land. In 1853 Mr. Durban ceased tailoring and went into the clothing business, after which he was clerk for Mr. Eouiidy and others in the dry goods store till 1874, since which he has been mostly i etired, but filling th,e office of School Treasurer and mak- ing himself useful generally. He is a steady, almost life-long member of the Methodist church, but with a genial charity for all religious faiths. His acquaintances will ever remember him as the honest tailor and good natured salesman who always wore a sunny face and was ready for an innocent joke. He keeps the same sunny face to this day a manly, open face that seems to say to every one he meets: "I am glad to see you and hope you are well." Long may James Durban live to smile upon his neighbors! JOSEPH OLIVEE. No name is more familiar to the people of Shelbyville and to the early residents of Shelby County than that of Joseph Oliver SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 51 He was born in the State of Virginia on Christmas day, 1794. He was in the War of 1812; and soon after the close of that war came to Illinois and traveled over much of the southern part of the, then, wild territory as a pedler. In the spring of 1827 he settled in Shelby county and was soon after qualified to fill the offices of county and circuit clerk, recorder and judge of probate. He was also appointed the first postmaster in Shelby county, and, while he attended to his duties in these various offices which yielded very small fees, he also taught a subscrip- tion school using the small cabin of a court house for a school- room also. He was also the first merchant in the county in the early days, deriving his principal trade from the Indians. He was marri ed at an early age to Miss Eliza Barthrick, of Virginia, by whom he was father of one son, Benjamin, and two daughters, Mary Jane and Eliza. Mary Jane was the first white child born in Shelby viJle. Her birth occurred February 3d, 1828. Mrs. Oliver died in 1824, and a year after he was married to Miss Sallie Fearman. William, Margery A. and Joseph were children of this marriage. Uncle Joseph Oliver was a man of robust form, noble mein, generous heart and judicial mind, ^ie served as Justice of the Peace for many of the later years of his life. He was a kind friend to the Seminary from the beginning. He continued to go in and out before the people of Shelbyville until the advanced age of eighty-six years, when, with bright Christian hopes that lighted his journey through many years, he was gathered home to his fathers. GEOKGE WENDL1NG. George Wendling was born February 9th, 1815, near the city of Strasburg, in the province of Alsatia, then a part of France but now a part of the German Empire. He emigrated to America in 1832. A poor man when he came here, as to worldly treasures, he possessed what was better than great wealth, a healthy body, stout muscle, industrious habits and an honest trade. At the blacksmith's forge he wrought for many 52 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. years, and reared and educated his family. He was for many years a trustee of the Seminary and did a generous part for the school in its need. One incident while Mr. Wendliug was Trustee is worthy of mention here. At the close of the Fifth Academical year in the summer of 1859, Mr. Jerome found that he had paid more that year for the salary of his teachers than he had received for tuition; he had lost money; he was poor and could not afford to carry on that kind of business; and therefore he concluded to leave the school unless he could be assured of at least $1600 from which to pay his teachers arid support himself. This was more than had been realized the year before; and although it was felt by the friends that it would be< a misfortune to the institution to lose the services of Mr. Jerome, yet there was a manifest reluctance to give the required guarantee; where- upon Mr. Scovil an 1 Mr. "Wendling, two of the Trustees, said to the Principal: "Go ahead, and do your bast with the school for another year, and we will personally stand good for the $1600." This guarantee was sufficient; Mr. Jerome went ahead, re-employed Miss Osbond and other first-class teachers and at the end of the next year the income, fortunately for the institution and the guarantees, had reached $2200, being $600 in excess of the expense for teachers. But if it had fallen as much short, George Wendling and Charles Scovil were not the men to shrink from keeping their promise. We are glad Mr. Wendling lives among us to-day to receive thanks for the risks he made for the sake of the Old Seminary. ANTHONY THOKNTON. Judge Anthony Thornton, a native of Kentucky but a resi- dent of Shelbyville for most of the years since 1836, was born in 1814; so that he is now two years beyond the allotted age of man, but is still in vigorous health. He is too well known in this state and nation, as a first class attorney, as an honored judge of the supreme court in Illinois, and as a worthy-member 8HELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 53 of the Unite:! States Congress, to require any extended notice in this little book. But nevertheless he deserves a conspicuous place here. Judge Thornton it will be seen by reference to 7th page of this book was one among the first generous contributors to the building fund of the "Academy," as it was at first called. One of the original trustees, he was clerk of the Board and con- tinued to serve in that capacity, and with careful attention to the business, for about six years. As Prof. Jerome testifies re- cently in a letter to the writer, "Judge Thornton was a devoted friend to the Seminary and rendered it much valuable service, from the beginning." Many of the teachers and students recall Mr. Thornton's acts of kindness to them, with gratitude. For the young men struggling, in poverty, to educate themselves, Mr. Thornton had warm sympathy and often spoke hearty and encouraging words to the: a. Some of us who then felt lonely, penniless and almost friendless, will ever hold in most tender and grateful remembrance the kind words of this one among the best friends of the old school, the only survivor of the original trustees. We are glad he still lives among us, as ever, a lover of young people, not voluble in talk, nor given to flat- tery, but having more kindly feeling for everyone than he always expresses. Mr. 'Thornton has a life-long reputation for integrity to which the years as they go but add lustre. He has well earned the name of a just and able jurist, an honest and powerful attorney, a friend of education and a liberal minded, patriotic citizen whose ideal statesman was the noble Kentuck- ian who said: "I would rather be right than be president." CHARLES E. WOODWARD. Chas. E. Woodward was born at Cream Ridge, New Jersey, June 12, 1815. Was raised on a farm until about 18 years old ; was educated at a Quaker School in Philadelphia, Pa. ; taught school in New Jersey until he was 21 years old; came west to Cincinnati, Ohio; taught school at College Hill, Ohio, one year; went west to Vincennes, Ind. ; taught school there until July 15, 1836, on which date he was married to Elizabeth Armstrong by 54 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL whom he has become father of sons and (laughters. He emi- grated to Shelby ville, 111., Jan. 1841 and has been a resident here ever since. Mr. Woodward taught school in this county for awhile. He was one of the prime movers for the organization of the re- publican party in this county in 1856, although he cast his vote for Millard Fillmore for President that year ; was appointed post- master of Shelbyville, in 1861 by President Lincoln and served as such until the President was assassinated ; volunteered in the army of the rebellion Aug. 1862; was appointed Lieut, and R. Q. M. of the 79th Beg. 111. Vol. by Gov. Richard Yates. In 1863 was de- tailed by Col. Joseph Conrad, who commanded the 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 4th Army C., as Brigade Quarter Master, and served in that brigade until the 12th day of June, 1865 and was mus- tered out on account of cessation of hostilities. He has been en- gaged in the milling, stock and grain business since 1878 and is at present proprietor of the Star Mills, Shelbyville, 111. , The first time the writer saw Mr. Woodward, to know him, must have been over thirty years ago; he was seated with a crowd around him and was advocating Free Schools which were not so popular then, by a great deal, as they are now. Many well-to-do men argued that the state had no more right to take money out of their pockets to educate other people's child- ren than it had to take corn out of their cribs to fatten other people's pigs. We remember well the indignation of Mr. Woodward at such talk and the sharp replies he would make. "I should be ashamed to put my poor neighbor's children on a par with pigs," he would say. Then, we were likely to hear somebody, aside, call him a Yankee, with an irreverent D. D. prefixed. But Mr. Woodward has outlived all that, to see Shelby county dotted all over with neatly built and well filled Free School houses, and to see Shelbyville graced with some of the most finely equipped and best conducted public schools in the state or nation ; and our city schools, by the way, could never have been so successful but for the old Seminary of which Mr. CHARLES E. WOODWARD. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 55 "Woodward was always a friend and a long time trustee, and he is to-day a faithful member of our school Board. Long may he live! CHARLES C. SCOVIL. Charles C. Scovil was born near Syracuse, New York June 20, 1817. He came to Shelbyville iti 1840 with scarcaly anything of this world's goods.. But he had what was batter than money "a mind to work;" and he did work industriously, early and late, building up Shelbyville and vicinity and giving liberally to all good enterprises, for twenty-nine years. On June 19, 1869, being only two days before the last closing exhi- bition of the Seminary, he passed away to rest from his labors. The first time the writer remembers seeing Mr. Scovil must have been as early as 1845. On the road from the Higgius mill, by the river, and near the old city graveyard on the bluff, was a little shop, made of rough boards and slabs, and a man in his shirt sleeves busy as a bee in that shop pushing the plane and driving nails. That man was Charles C. Scovil. He was manu- facturing fanning mills which were then in general use by farm- ers to winnow small grains, wheat, oats, etc. In the course of years, this same man built and owned a large stearn, grist and saw mill, situated not far from where the National Bank and Shelby County Leader building now stands; and at last, he pro- jected the plan and built the Star mills, now owned and run by C. E. Woodward, among the largest and best mills in central Illinois. At one time Mr. Scovil had, by dint of industry, econ- omy and perseverance, become posessed of a large amount of this world's goods, but he never hoarded; his money like his two brawny hands, was always employed, was always in use. He had an open hand for the poor who were struggling to help themselves, and the needy widows and orphans were never al- lowed to suffer for bread if Charles Scovil knew of their want. Mr. Scovil was President of the Board of Trustees of the Semi- nary during nearly all of the fifteen years of its existence. One of the three who subscribed $250 to the building fund, he was 56 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. always one of the most constant friends and liberal benefactors of the school. His home was the place of abounding hospitali- ty for all comers, especially for ministers of the gospel. The first teachers of the Seminary in its early years fonud a home with his family. He had a cheering word and a helping hand for the poor students who were struggling to educate themselves. "Go ahead and do your best, and I will do what I can to help you!" was a characteristic remark of the man whose days were doubtless cut short on earth because his strength was not equal to the burdens he attempted to carry, and so he must needs rest. Peace! lasting peace! to his memory! SAMUEL W. MOULTON. Samuel W. Moulton was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in 1823. He was educated in the public schools and academies of his native town; and before he was twenty years of age he came west, first to Kentucky where he spent a year teaching school, at the same time reading text books upon law, and in 1843 he went to Mississippi and engaged in teaching. While in this state in 1844, he married Miss Mary H. Affleck, a wo- man of noble qualities of inind and heart, intelligent, domestic, wise in household economy, gracious to all a real helpmeet to her husband to this day. In 1845 he came to Coles county, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar 1847. From thence he moved to Sullivan and in the winter of 1850 he removed to Shelbyville where he has remained to this day. In 1853 he was elected a member of our state legislature, and was re-elected for three successive terms. While in the legislature Mr. Moul- ton was appointed chairman of the Committee on Education, and he framed and introduced the first bill establishing free schools in the state of Illinois. He was one of the original trustees of the State Board of Education, and for sixteen years was president of the Board. In 1864 Mr. Moulton was elected to the 39th Congress from the state at large, and in 1880 was elected to the 47th Congress from the 15th Congressional District. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 57 We speak from an intimate acquaintance of over a quarter of a century when we say that few men have toiled more incess- antly and with more seeming pleasure in their chosen profession than has Samuel W. Moulton. In the meantime he has given re- spectful attention to whatever was going on of public import- ance in the town, state and nation. A man of shrewd business tact and of simple economic habit, he is nevertheless generous when occasion seems to demand, and ever ready to help those who will try to help themselves. Affable, sociable and demo- cratic in his manner and address, good natured and free from feelings of spite toward anyone, Mr. Moulton commands the friendship of even those who dislike his course in politics. From the first to the last he manifested kindly interest in the Shelby Seminary, and we are all glad that he has lived to write the pleasing introduction to this volume, and we hope he may still live many years to greet his neighbors with that familiar, "How do ye do?" CYKUS HALL. Cyrus Hall was born in Fayette county, Illinois, August 29, 1812. While a resident in that county he enlisted in the Mexi- can war and was made a Lieutenant in Colonel Ferris Foreman's regiment. He came to Shelby ville in 1860 and kept a hotel on the corner south of Kleeman & Goldstein's dry goods store. When the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter, he promptly raised the first company in this county to go to the relief of the nation. He was elected captain and his company became a part of the 14th Regiment of Illinois Infantry, commanded by John M. Palmer afterwards Major General, and governor of Illinois. He took part with his regiment in the battles of Shiloh, Donelson, Mission Ridge, Corinth, Stone River, and other battles of less note, and remained in the service over four years, or, until the close of the war, being promoted from time to time through the grades of Major, Lieutenant Colonel, the colonelcy of a regi- ment, and was finally breveted Brigadier General for gallant service on the field of battle. He had the reputation, and de- 58 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. served it, of being a true soldier. Returning borne, he en- gaged in mercantile pursuits; but was soon appointed Post- master of Shelbyville, and very acceptably filled that office for more than ten years, and till his death on September 6, 1878. In 1849 Gen'l Hall married Margaret Jane Knight who passed away in 1867. By this union there were seven children. In 1867 he married Miss Sarah Lowe. By this last mar- riage there were two children, both daughters. General Hall was a man of very popular qualities, of com- manding appearance, fine physique, pleasant manners, always wearing a friendly smile and ready to great you with a warm hand grasp of good fellowship. He was lover of home and family, patriotic and public spirited and opened handed to every good cause, a devoted member of the M. E. Church, he was broad in sympathies, temperate in his habits, firm in what he believed to be right, quick to redress wrong, and, in a word, a noble man. It is eminently fitting that the Grand Army of the Republic should have a Cyrus Hall Post in Shelbyville, and the students and teachers of the old school are proud of the fact that he was one of its trustees. Ever blessed be his memory ! OUTER. SHELBYVILLE SEMINAEY MEMORIAL. 59 *FIRST ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF "SHELBY MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY, MDCCCLVI." SHELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS, FOR THE YEAE ENDING JULY 24TH, 1856. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. CHARLES C. SCOVIL, President. ANTHONY THORNTON, Esq., Secretary. Rev. GEORGE W. FISHER. Rev. JOHN C. SELBY. BOARD OF INSTRUCTION. CHARLES W. JEROME, A. M. Principal, And Teacher of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Languages. CALEB C. BURROUGHS, B. S., Teacher of Mathematics and Natural Science. Miss OLIVIA F. SMITH, Teacher of Instrumental Music. JASPER L. DOUTHIT, Teacher in Preparatory Department. BURKEY MYERS, Assistant Pupil. SHELBY ACADEMY. MALE DEPARTMENT. SCIENTIFIC AND CLASSICAL. NAMES. RESIDENCE. PRESENT P. O. James W. Cheeney, Vandalia. Detroit, Mich. Zimri Ferguson,* Sand Creek. Thomas H. Graham, Shelbyville. Shelbyville. *This catalogue is given entire, word for word, in the order originally printed but in a condensed form. The three succeeding catalogues printed in 1857-8-9 bear the same imprint and are very similar in form, course of study, etc. to the first, the only marked change, aside from the differing list of names of trustees teachers and students, being the substi- tution of the word "Seminary" for "Academy.'' In printing the names of students, the present residence or P.O. address of each one is given, so far as known, and the last names of females are attached in parenthesis. The words quoted in the above heading were printed on the outside of the enameled cover of the first catalogue. 60 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Eli J. Horseman,* James A. Horseman,*' Nelson R. Jones,* Francis M. Kelly,* William E. Killam, Burkey Myers,* Anson D. Slieley, David Tremble, Fieldon R. Waggoner, William H. Waggoner, George R. Wendling, John Atkinson,* Joseph M. Bivins,* Henry R. Cheeuy, William Campbell, Newton Cox, Napoleon B. Couch, Charles J. Dexter, James J. Durkee. William H. Dawdy, Simon Dawdy,* Baalis M. Davis, William Freshwater, Edward Harris, Francis M. Haydon,* William E. Horseman,* William L. Headen, John J. Kellar, Peter M. Killam, Charles P. Lantz, Nelson Neil, Elbridge A. Oliver, Frank W. Penwell, George V. Penwell, Amos A. Rhodes, William S. Smith, William B. Selby, Franklin B. Selby, John W. Selby, Christopher Snyder, George Tackett,* Charles Tickuer,* John E. Trower, Alfred A. Waggoner, Charles S. Woodward, William Atkinson, Jaines Bivins, George L. Bivins,* John D. Bruster, John C. Cramer, Wayne Cramer, Henry Campbell, James Cutler, Aaron Cutler, Martin Collard, George Couch, Cyrus Conrad, Williamsburgh. do Shelby county. do Pilot Knob. Shelbyville. do ' Mattoon. Shelby county. do Shelbyville. ACADEMICAL. Shelbyville. do Vandalia. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. do Shelby county. Shelbyville. Shelby county. do do Shelbyville. do Williamsburgh. do Shelbyville. Pilot Knob. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. do do Williamsburgh. Shelby county. Shelbyville. do do Moawequa. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. PREPARATORY. Shelbyville. do do do do do do do do Mode. Shelbyville. do Cowley, Kan. Tower Hill, 111. Shelbyville. Charleston, 111. Grass Valley, Gal. Shelbyville. Shelbyville. ' do Shelbyville. Milwaukee, Wis. Eureka, Kansas. Greenville, 111. Shelbyville. Taylorville, 111. Paris, 111. Cowdeu, 111. Shelbyville. Kansas. Shelbyville. Tower Hill, 111. Danville, 111. Paua, 111. Taylorville, 111. Wichita. Kansas. Chattanooga, Tenn. Shelbyville. Hutchinson, Kansas. Shelbyville. Belle Plain, Kansas. Kansas. do do do do Terre Haute, Ind. Tower Hill, 111. 'SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 61 John Dagen, (Charles Dawdy,* James Davis, John Davis,* Jerome B. Dreunon.* John W. Drennon,* William Earp, Andrew Frazier,* Thomas Frazier,* DeLeon Gregory,* Willie Garvin, Nathan T. Garner,* James Garner,* George F. Guilford,* Willie Hodgson, Theodore Harris, John Harris, Perry Harris, Willie Hatfield, Robert Hefley, Edwin Holden, Willie Harrison, Moses Jackson, Arthur Johnson, James Johnson, William Johnson, Wesley Johnson, Robert Johnson, John Johnson, Charles H. Laws, Ephraim A.McCracken, Willie Miller, James Miller, Henry G. Parish, John Poor, George A. Roberts, Joseph J. Renshaw, John Renshaw, Willie Reed, Lewis Rice, James Sampson, Thomas J. Selby, George W. Selby, Richard Sim, James L. Sutton,* Jacob Swallow, Willie Spore, Clarence Spore, James Spore, Cyrus Tallman, William Tolby, Frederick H. Templeton, Alanson Tickner,* Anderson Vosbury,* Adolphus VanDyke, John Winson, Allen Wicks,* Jacob Werner,* Willie Wade, Ruel Waggoner,* Jacob Wetzel, Willie Williams, Shelbyvilla do do do Shelby county. do. Shelbyvilla Shelby county. do Shelbyville. do Shelby county. do Shelbyvilla do do do do do Shelby county. Shelbyvilla do do do do Shelby county. do Shelbyvilla do do do do do do Sullivan Shelbyville. do do do do do do do Shelby County. Shelbyvilla do do do do do Shelby county* Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. do Shelby county. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyville. Shelby county. Shelbyvilla do Greenville, I1L Pana, 111. .Shelbyvilla Windsor, I1L Shelbyvilla Newton, 111. Paris, 111. Denver, Col. Nokomis, 111. Shelby villa Young county, Tex, Shelbyvilla Lakewood, 111. Shelbyvilla do do Shelbyvilla Kansaa Kansas. Shelbyvilla Hornet, Mo. Mattoon, 111, Pana, I1L Shelbyvilla Bushnell, 111. Shelby County, Souer City, Minn. Taylorville, 111. 62 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. FEMALE DEPARTMENT. SCIENTIFIC AND CLASSICAL. NAMES. Telithe C. Anderson,* MoUie H. Basye, (Walker) Mary J. Bruster, (Durkee) Victoria Cutler, (Campbell ) lone Gregory, Esther Guilford, (Davis) Ella A. Hall, Eliza Huber, (Bell) Mary E. McCracken, (Garvin) Julia A. Matkin, Emma E. McMorris, (Craig) Kate H. Smith, (Thornton) Olivia F. Smith, (Craighead) Maria N. Smith, (Chafee) Mary C. Wells, RESIDENCE. Chester. Shelbyville. do do do Shelby County. Vandalia. Shelbyville. do Aududon. Prairie Bird. Hopkinsville, Ky. Shelbyville. do Centralia. Belle Basye, Amanda Bell, (Thornton) Ann E. Bivins, (Sheley) Belle Catlin,* Mary A. Cutler, Sina Cutler, (Billiard) Helen E. Frazier, (Dill) Martha A. Graham, (Brown) Rachel E. Haydon, Ella Headen, (Woodward) Lucy E. Jones, (Walton) Fannie Moulton, (Dodd) PedrillaP. Parish (Pfeiffer) Anna L. Preutiss, Laura E. Roberts, (Shade) Martha A. Roberts, Mary A. Roberts, (Parker) Martha Selby, (Filio) Eliza Tremble, Mary E. Williams, (Henry) Amanda Albro* Jane Albro,* Ellen Armstrong, Sarah Atkinson, (Hardy) Rachel Bell, (Lantz) Josephine Bivins, (Austin) Eliza Bruster, (Mouser) Christiana Couch, Ellen L. Couch,* Mary Camp, Elizabeth Casey, Octavia Cutler, Margaret Cutler, (Lantz) Harriet Cutler, (Hopkins) Mildred Dutton, (Hawk) Ann E. Durban, (Weakly) Frank C. Durban, (Seaman) Christiana Doyle, (Haydon) Annie Frazier, ACADEMICAL. Shelbyville. do do Berlin, Wis. Shelbyville. Shelby County. Shelbyville. do do do Shelby County. Bedford, Ky. Shelbyville. Shelby County. Shelbyville. do do do Mattoon. Williamsburgh. PREPARATORY. Shelbyville. dp Prairie Bird. Shelbyville. do Shelby County. Shelbville. do do Shelby County. Moawequa. Shelbyville. do do Shelby County. Shelbyville. do Shelbyville. Shelby County. PRESENT P. O. Shelbyville. Shelbyville, Pana, 111. Shelbyville. do Shelbyville. Shelbyille. do Shelbyville. Hillsboro, 111. Shelbyville. Shelbyville. Pine Bluff, Ark. Los Angelos, Cal. Shelbyville. do do Hutchinson, Kansas. Altoona, Dakota. Terre Haute, Ind. Shelbyville. do do Shelbyville. do SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 63 Lizzie Fridley,* Luella Gregory,* Melissa M. Garvin,* (Roche) Mary Guilford, Hannah Hodgson, Shelby County. Shelbyvilla do do do Martha E Headen*(Mcrianahan)Williamsburgh, Anna Headen, (Chew) Shelbyville. Nannie B. Headen, (Guilford) do Isabel D. Laws, (Malone) Shelby-villa Eliza Lantz, (Couch) do Hannah Moulton, (Hunt) Bedford, Ky. Sarah C. Miller, Shelbyville. Sarah J, Oliver, Shelbyvilla Matilda E. Pen well, do Mary L. Pen well, (Launey) do Arabel Poor, (Woods) Sullivan. Nancy A. Phillips, Shelbyvilla Melvira Phillips, do Harriet Phelps, (Igo) do Nancy M. Phelps, do Matilda Reed, do Henrietta Rice,* do Sarah Rice, do Frances Scovil,* do Altona Shellenberger, (Austin) Shelby County. Mary Selby, Shelbyville. Elizabeth South, Shelby County. Ann Sim, Shelby County. Samantha Sutton, (Sturteyant)Shelby ville. Lizzie H. Tackett, (Hopkins) do Catherine M. Tall man, (Beem) do New York City. Shelbyville. Shelbyville. do Shelbyvilla Warsaw, 111, Savannah, Ga. Belle Woodward, (Siles) Margaret Winson,* Mary Winson,* Eliza Williams,* Lauribsa Waggoner, Jane E. Wicks,* (Reeves) Antonia Wendling,* (Lane) Mary Wade, (Howe) do Shelby County. Shelby County. Shelbyville. Shelby County, Shelbyvilla do do Decatur. 111. Tower Hill, 111. Dexter, Mo. Shelbyville. do Chicago, HI. CALENDAR The Academical Year is divided into two* Terms of twenty weeks each. Fall Session opens October 1, and closes February 19th. Summer Session opens March 2d, and closes July 22d. Spring Vacation lasts two weeks. Summer Vacation lasts ten weeks. EXAMINATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS. There will be a public and impartial examination of the various classes at the close of each Term, and the Student will be advanced according to his or her proficiency. The annual exhibitions occur at the close of the Fall and Winter Terms. The Semi- Annual examination for the session will occur on the 22d, 23, and 24 of July, proximo. MUSIC. The important branch of Instrumental Music has been taught during the last Academical year. Through the liberality and kindness of a few benevolent friends, the Institution has been furnished with an excellent Piano-forte. 64 SHELBYVILLE SEMINAR? MEMORIAL, LITERARY SOCIETY. The Plantonian Literary Society offers every advantage for improve- ment in discussion and literature. The meetings are held weekly, and when the student is prompt, and an effort is put forth for a proper performance, the benefits that accrue therefrom are numerous and very perceptible. TEXT BOOKS. All the necessary Text Books, together with a good supply of station- ery, are kept at the stores in the village. GENERAL INFORMATION. Shelby Academy is pleasantly located in Shelby ville, Shelby County, Illinois, a pleasant, retired and healthy village, on the west bank of the Okaw river. The Terre Haute and Alton Eailroad passes immediately through the town, thereby rendering access easy from every direction. The Semi- nary building is now completed and furnished; the rooms are spacious, well ventilated, and pre both pleasant and healthy. The building is large and commodious, affording ample accommodations for two hundred and fifty students. It is the aim of the Teachers to instruct thoroughly those committed to their care in every branch pursued. The government is administrated with firmness and impartiality, but without harshness. Its chief aim is the prevention, rather than the punish- ment of offenses. Careful attention is paid to the comfort and morals of students, who may seek instruction within the walls of the Institution. An accurate account is kept of the delinquencies, conduct, scholarship and attendance of every student. . This record is open at all times to the inspection of both parents and guardians. It is desirable that students should enter at the opening of the Term; but they will be received at any period, and charged from the time of their entrance. L COMMON ENGLISH. Reading, McGuffie; Orthography, Webster; Geography, Mitchell and Morse; English Grammar, Pinneo; Mental Arithmetic, Davies; U.S. History, Mrs. Willard; Writing Series, Towndrows. II. HIGHEE ENGLISH. Ancient and Modern History, Goodrich; Ancient Geography, Mitchell; Analysis of English Language, Pinneo; Elementary Physiology, Mrs. Cutter; Juvenile Philosophy, Comstock; Botany, Wood. III. MATHEMATICS. Arithmetic, Davies; Algebra, Davies; Geometry, Loomis; Surveying and Navigation, Lcomis; Trigonometry, Loomis; Analytical Geometry and Calculus, Loomis. IV. NATURAL SCIENCE. Natural Philosophy, Draper: Astronomy, Mattisou; Geology 7 , Hitchcock; Physiology, Cutter; Chemistry, Youman; Natural History, Comstock; Meteorology, Brocklesby; Mineralogy. Comstock. SflELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 65 V. MENTAL AND MOHAL SCIENCE. Mental Philosophy, Upham; Logic, Hedge; Rhetoric, Quackeubos; Moral Philosophy, Wayland; Natural Theology, and Evidences of Chris- tianity, Paley. VI. ANCIENT LANGUAGES. Latin Lessons, Anthou; Latin Grammar, Bullion; Latin Reader, Bullion; Caesar, Anthon; Virgil, Cooper; Cicero, Anthon; Horace, Anthon; Cicero de Officiis, Thacher; Greek Grammar and Reader, Bullion; Anabasis, Owen. Exercises in Orthography, Declamation and Composition, regularly throughout the course. EXPENSES. Rates of Tuition per Term of Twenty Weeks, payable at the close of Session : Preparatory Branches $ 4 . 50 Academical 5 . 50 Scientific 8.00 Classical 10.00 Music on the Piano, including use of Instrument, extra ... 15 . 00 Incidental charges, twenty-five cents per scholar. BOAEDING. Good Boarding for Students can be secured in private families, at $2.00 to $2.25 per week. Fuel and lights furnished without extra charge. APPARATUS, PLATES, ETC. The nucleus of a good Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus has been formed, and added to the Seminary. Complete sets of beautiful Anatom- ical Outline Plates, Chemical Charts, Geographical Maps, etc., having been procured for the use of the Institution, peculiar inducements are offered to Students desiring to pursue these favorite branches, Philosophy, Chemistry, Physiology, &c. Many thanks are due the kind friends, who liberally contributed towards the liquidation of the indebtedness for the Apparatus, at the last Exhibitions. 66 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. NAMES OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. NAMES OF TEACHERS EMPLOYED BY C. W. JEROME WHILE PRINCIPAL OF SHELBY SEMINARY.-WHEN APPOINTED AND WHEN RESIGNED. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches. BACON. Names marked thus: f belong to the first catalogue, but were omitted in copying by a printer's accident. Those marked with a star (*) are dead. Appointed. March, 1854, it 1854, October, 1855, a 1855, M 1855, (I 1855, March, 1856, u 1857, it 1857, October, 1857, M 1857, Resigned. 1857, 1857, April, 1858, 1858, September, 1858, 1 October, May, 1860, September, 1860, October, 1861, 1861, September, 1865, 1865, 1865, 1865, October, 1865, September, 1866, February, 1867, September, 1867, 1868. 1868, February, 1866, Between '61 Charles W. Jerome, Principal. R. M. Bell, Teacher, Rev. C. C. Burroughs, Teacher, Jaspe"f~L>4)outhit, Teacher, C. B. Myers^sAssistant Piipil. Miss N/CTPh^ifeB^* Instrumental Music, Miss Olivia F.jSrnith, Music, Rev. A. W. Mace, Teacher, Miss A. M. Arnold.* Instrumental Music, Rev. W, B^i&stefc Teacher, Miss E. A. IMorrison,, Instraniental and Vod&l Mtt^ 5 ^^" ... Miss Ann\E. Rhodes, Teacher, Miss M. (jfffnam, Assistant Pupil, Jacob TO. Miller, Assistant Pupil, J. A. Roucdy, Vocal Music, Miss Maggie E. Osbond, Teacher, Miss Bell McGrinnis,* Teacher, diss Mary J. Osbond, Teacher, P. T. Martin, Teacher, Miss Ada Ward,* Teacher, Miss Ellen Hall, Teacher, Miss Mattie B. Smith, Teacher, C. W. Jerome, Principal, Mrs. E. A. Jerome, Vocal and Instru- mental Music, - Miss Annabell C. Young, Teacher, - Miss lone S. Daniels, Teacher, P. T. Martin, Teacher, Miss Anna Headen, Teacher, Miss Mattie G. Kerr,* Teacher, James M. North, Teacher, Miss Mary A. Hall. Teacher, Miss O. J. Higby, Teacher, Miss Lou M. Mason, Teacher, and '65 Mr. Jerome was in the army three July, 1855 1856 1857 1856 February, 1856 July, 1856 1857 May, 1857 July, 1858 June, 1869 July 1858 February, 1858 July, 1858 1858 1860 May, July, June, 1859 1860 1860 1861 1862 1862 1869 1869 Septemb'r, 1865 June, 1866 February, 1867 June, 1869 1868 February, 1868 January, 1869 1869 June 1869 years. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 67 Atkinson, John* Austin, Nathan F.* Austin, Geo. W.* Amlin, William Amlin, Milo Atkinson, Wm. T. Austin, John S. Austin, Win. R. Aichele, Adam Andes, James A. Austin, Charles Aaron, John T. Allison, William Bayse, Newton* Bivins, George L.* Bivius, Joseph* Bivius, James Buel, Linus W. Burrows, Thomas Burrows, Jasper Brueter, John D. Bayse, Edward Brown, Edward Barrett, Hardy A. Bryant, Samuel Baker, Byron P. Baker, Edward D.* Barker, Wm. M. Baker, Merton G. Bradley, Simeon Berkey, Charles Blackstone, Thomas Buel, Edwin* Burton, Charles T. Baines, George Barrickman, John Barringer, James Bartscht, Charley Bartscht, Fred Burkett, Henry Bartley, Joseph Blackstone, Daniel Brant, Wayland Bruck, Emanuel Brown, Willie Ballet, Christie Baker, D. Fletcher Ballet, Jacob Brown, Benjamin F. Ballet, Edward Bugh, Charles Brownbeck, Wm. H. Bryant, George Boaz, Charles Bell, John Bell, Joseph Bayse, Thomas Baird, Ira Cox, Newton Cheney, Henry* NAMES OF STUDENTS. GENTLEMEN. Cutler, James Collard, Martin Cheney, James W. Couch, Napoleon B. Conrad, Cyrus Collins, John T. Coiich, George Cramer, Sylvester Cutler, Otway Collins, Alonzo Carnahan, William Carnahan, Thomas Cotter, John Chabin, Abel W. Cottlow, Morris Conner, William P. Conrad, John Cutler, John B. Chew, William R. Copelaud, George Carroll, David Carter, John A. Carroll, James Cowgill, John W. Cowgill, Joseph B. Craddick, Ambrose Cowgill, George Cook, G. Wilbur Conant, William Capps, Edwin Cook, AddisonE. Ca lol well, Curtis Craig, Lewis Craig, Thomas Camfield, Thomas Corley, George Cramer, John Cramer, Wayne Campbell, William Campbell, Henry Cutler, Aaron Dexter, Charles J. Dexter, William M.* Douthit, Jasper L. Davis, Baalis M. Durkee, James J. Davis, James Dagan, John Doyle, Ephraim Doyle, Joshua* Davis, John* Dawdy, William Dawdy, Charles Dawdy, Simon* Drennon, John W. Drennou, Jerome* Dutton, Abram Donaker, Bruce Donaker, Eugene Devlin, Joseph H.* Dutton, Lee Day, Charlie B. Daisy, Willie B. Dennjng, Tine C.* Davis, Joseph W. Dilley, Edward G. Dilley, Clarence E.* Diamond, Sewell* Day, John Donnelly, James* Dooly, John T. Davis, Charles Douthit, George W.* Durkee, Aphie Ditteuhover, Alfred Dilley, Fred Drew, Norman C. Earp, William Ewing, Thomas Eckard, Monroe Eddy, Wm. J. Eddy, John Ellis/Alfred Ellis, Daniel* Ferguson, Zimri* Fleming, Wm. F. Fisher, Samuel Freybarger, Alphonzo Fleming, Peter Fleming, Cornelius Freshwater, William Frazier, Thomas* Frazier, Andrew* Fleming, Douglas Frazier, George Finkbine. Fred M. Fox, John F. Fouke, Philo W. French, Samuel Frank, John Gregory, DeLeou* Guilford, George* Gollagher, Simon Groves, John M. Garner, James* Garvin, William Garner, Nathan* Gwinn, John I. Guilford, Marlow Gehm, Jacob* Guilford, William Garvin, George Graham, Thomas H. Guyon, Alton D.* Gregory, Dudley C. Gregory, Ebbie Graham, William* Gillette, Edward Gomes, Eddie Gearhart,. Emerson* 68 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Gilduff, James Gilduff, Michael Gaddis, Leslie Higgins, Jarues Haydon, Frank M.* Headen, William L. Horseman, James A.* Horseman, Eli J. Horseman, William* Harris, Edward Harris, Theodore Harris, James B. Hefley, Robert Harrison, William Higgius, Thomas Hodgson. William Hatfield, 'William Holden, Edwin Harris, Perry Headen, Walter C. Hillsabeck, James A. Harding, Joseph Herrick, Tonie Horseman, Thomas Haney, Martin Horseman, Charlie D. Hall, Charles E.* Harding, Fred P. Hoy, Simon P. Huffer, Jeremiah Harney, David M.* Harney, A. A. Hall, W. Wesley Harney, Marshall* Henry, Cassius P.* Harkey, George M.* Hoffman, John Hall, John J. Holding, Callie B. Holding, Robert S. Hunter, William Hunter, Andrew* Hall, Charles A. Hart, Harrison Hays, Calvin Huber, Samuel H. Hickman, Charles T. Hebel, Jacob Head, Charles Hilliard, James Harwood, Eber Holloway, Thomas T. Huffer, George Harding, John Hall, Willis Hall, Charles Homrighous, John Homrighous, Milo Housem, Edward Housem, George Isliam, Charles Johnson, A. B. Johnson, James W. Jones, Nelson E.* James, Joseph F. Johnson, Wesley Johnson, Robert Jackson, Moses Jarnagin, Jasper Johnson, John Jenkins, Charles Jones, Benjamin Johnson, Solon Johnson, Wesley C. Johnson, Le\i H. Jackson, James Jarnagin, Frank Kellar, John J. Killam, Wm. E. Kelley, Frank W. Killam, Peter M. King, Leonard Kellar, Hiram R. Keeler, Henry S.* Koster, Joseph Kemp, Jacob H. Klauser, Emanuel Kerr, George Klauser, Gottlieb Knight, Cyrus Klarr, Joseph M. Killam, John KelJar, Martillus* Kellar, Charles E. Kline, George Kelley, Wm. O. Kearney, Charles Kleeman, Samuel Keeler, Clinton DeWitt Kensil, John Kensil, Jacob Kleeman, Morris Laws, Charles H. Lantz, Charles P. Lantz, Isaac S. Leach, Edgar Larkin, John B. Livers, James Leist, Harrison Livers, George H.* Lump, George Lovins, Aaron W. LovJns, Wesley C. Linder, John W. Lloyd, Turner Lloyd, Willis Lufkin, Dudley Lowe, Vincent F. Lufkiu, Harry Lufkin, Frank McCracken, Ephraini A. Montgomery, John Moyers, Samuel Myers, C. Burkey* Miller, James Matties, John* Matties, LaFayette Miller, William Miller, Jacob C. Miller, Dorris Murdock, Charles McMorris, Charles Moberly, Franklin Murdock, Edward Maxwell, George Martin, Luther M. Martin, Parkhurst T. Martin, Elgin H. Monroe, Norton* Martin, Thaddeus K.* Monroe, Nelson Minto, Thomas Minto, Robert Miner, William R.* Me Clintock, Eugene* Middleton, Green R. Middletou, Robert McKee, Samuel Middleton, Amos McMullen, William H.* Malone, William McDowell, Oliver H. Millikin, Charles S.* Mootrie, William* Malone, John Morgan, Thomas McComb, Edward Martin, Richard McKinney, James McKibbeu, James Middlesworth, James Middlesworth, Clinton Middleton, Frank McClimans, James Neil, Nelson Nichols, William Nichols, William J. Neil, Wesley Oliver, Joseph* Oliver, William Oliver, Anson E.* Oiler, S. D. Oliver, Asa Oliver, Herbey* Oliver, George Oliver, Jerome Penwell, Frank W. Peuwell, George V. Patient, William Ferryman, Stephen Pritchard, Charles Prentice, William* Phelps, John Prentice, Owen T.* Penwell, Oscar Peuwell, Meritt SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 69 Penwell, Jonathan Prince, Horace C. Parker, Lewis H. Poteet, Mark M.* Peacock, Adouijak* Peacock, Joseph A. Penwell, Melvin Peters, Alvin Peters, Arthur Park, Edward Probst, Luther Pollard, Andrew Penwell, Charles Penwell, DickJ. Penwell, George Penwell, Locke C. Prentice, Edward Probst, Clarence Pugh, William Page, Robert Prince, Ebbie Pedon, Daniel Parish, Henry C. Ferryman, Smith Roberts, George A. Reed, John Roessler, Andrew Roessler, Phillip Renshaw, Joseph Renshaw, John Rhodes, Amos A. Rice, George* Rice, Lewis Roberts, William Retilf, Jacob Rhodes, Jesse* Rodgers, John Rodgers, Joseph E, Rodgers, James S. Rodgers, Spencer B. Rheinhart, Fred Roberts, John Rutherford, Charles* Rutherford, Wallace Reed, Edward Reed, John Reeves, Samuel Reiss, Ardie Reber, George Roessler, Julius Roessler, Solomon Roberts, Colly Storey, Peyton R. Selby, James B. Shaw, Gabriel Sampson, James Smith, Wm. L. Selby, William B.* Skinner, Woolsie Selby, Frank W. Selby, Benjamin F. Sheeley, Anson W. Selby, George Snyder, Christopher Sim, Richard* Sutton, James F. Spore, William Spore, Clarence Spore, James Stables, William Stables, Fleming Smith, Charles Smith, Frank Stewart, Thomas Suttou, Henry* Schenck, Edward T.* Shank, John Shank, Joseph Silver, Edward Stilgebower, Henry Stilgebower, Solomon Silver, Barak Smith, Daniel B.* Smith, Benjamin Smith, Nicholas Stewart, Eli Stumpf, Fred Stotts, Nathan Savior, Edgar Sexsou, Richard* Smith, James Selby, Amos Saylor, Milton P. Silver, George H. Steen, Ernest P. Scovil, Charles Shuman, Charles Sutton, Lester Slocum, Fred H. Shutt, Frank Scott, Andrew Stillwell, Frank Stewart, Lucerne Stillwell, Robert T. Sumerlin, Eugene* Sumerlin, Adolph Sutler, Charles Stilgebower, Jacob Sill, Alfred B. Swinford, John W. Spurgeon, Norton Snyder, Adam Swart, Charles P. Trower, John E. Terry, George Tackett, George* Thornton, Charles Thornton, Albert* Tallman, Cyrus Trimble, David Templeton, Fred Ticknor, Charles C. Ticknor, Alanson* Thomas, Elijah Travis, Harvey* Tyson, Joseph Tyson, John Trimble, John Tyson, James Travis, David P. Tackett, Edward Travis, A. J. Travis, Byron Travis, Horace Tyson, Isaac Tyson, Thomas Tackett, Archie VauDyke, Wilsie A. VauDyke, David Vosbury, Anderson* Verner, Mathew J. Vandine, James Vautreese, Edward Ward, William Wilson, George P. Woodward, Nimrod Williams, William R. Williams, Charles B.* Williams, John A.* Wendliug, George R. Woodward, Charles S. Waggoner, Fieldon R. Winn, Thomas Weeks, James Weeks, Edwin* Weer, Henry Werner, Jacob L. Waggoner, Alfred A. Waggoner, Wm. H. Waggoner, Ruel D.* Winson, John Warren, Daniel Wakefield, John Ward, John Woodward, Letton S. Woolen, John M.* Walden, Thomas Whitehead, Byron Wheeler, John Wendling, Michael B, Wendling, George R. Wendling, William Warren, Robert B.* Wade, William Wade, Edward T. Wetzel, Jacob Wiuson, Frank Warren, Peter Walker, William Williams, Edwin Williamson, Perry Williams, Jesse West, Joseph West, Harrison Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Daniel 70 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Worley, Charles Williams, Worth A. Wakefi eld, Charles Wright, Henry D. Wright, Johu D. Albro, Amanda* Albro r Jane* Amlin, Adeliza* Anderson, Telitha C* Atkinson, Sarah Augeliu, Mary Allen, Maggie C. Anderson, Margaret Austin, Martha J. Armstrong Ellen Augelin, Lucinda Austin, Nettie Bruster, Mary J.* Bruster, Eliza A. Beattie, Mary J. Beattie, Annie* Bivins, Ann E. Basye, Nannie* Basye, Mollie Beattie, Belle* Bivins, Josephine Basye, Belle* Bivins, Martha Bell. Rachel Brown, Mary J. Bivins, Nannie* Brokaw, Keturah Brightman, Lovinia Brant, Maria Bivius, Louisa* Bivius, Mary* Berkey, Anna Baker, Letitia Butler, Rebecca Broomfield. Margaret Bugh, Mary Belknap, Hattie Blosser, Hattie* Blackstone, Jane Beauchamp, Sallie Beauchamp, Emma Burr, Ellen Babbitt, Ellen Bryson, Priscilla Buunell, Alice Buck, Anna* Betts, Minnie* Brokaw, Temperance Bailey. Mary Boaz, Nancy Bailey, Jane Barrett, Eliza Barbeau, Lizzie Barrett. Jennie Basye, Anna Worley, Thomas Wetzel, FnuA* Webster, Charles Warner, Charles LADIES, Bivius, Katie Bivius, Hattie Bell, Cora Barrett, Zilpha Blackstone, Lillie Blackstone, Lina Blosser. Emma Bugh, Ida Cutler, Maggie Cutler, Hattie Catliu, Belle Cutler, Mary A. Cutler, Octavia Cutler, Alice Canon, Dora Collard, Hester Cutler, Sina A.* Cutler, Victoria* Casey, Lizzie Cutler, Margaret Cotich, Christiana Cutler, Lizzie Couch, Ellen Conrad, Melissa t Cutler, Lizzie Camp, Mary Cutler, Rosa Cramer, Nettie Chew, Hattie Conant, Josie Copeland, Rebecca Copeland, Lizzie Cowgill, Sarah J. Clements, Ella Cowgill, Jennie Cook, Lillie Cook, Nettie Cheney, Annie Corley, Minerva Cooper, Emmp Capps, Katie Carroll, Ella Carroll, Mary Cramer, Sarah Church, Mary Corley, Lizzie Canifield, Sarah Durban, Anna E. Durkee, Ann Davidson, Paulina Davidson, Lucy Downs, Jeunie Doyle, Lizzie Doyle, Priscilla Durban, Fannie Weyand, Alfred Weakley, Otho T, Welborn, Jonas Woodward, Clarence Drennon, Mattie Dutton, Mildred Davidson, Euphemia Dexter, Lolo Dagau, Lena Davis, Julia Denning. Carrie* Dutton, Mary Demotte, Lucy Dunham, Olivia Day, Mary Durkee, Lizzie* Dreunon, Lizzie Davis, Stella Durkee, Nettie Davis, Mary Denning, Emma Eversoll, Laureua Earp, Melissa M. Ewing, Rebecca Easterday, Anna Espy, Tommie Eddy, Mary A. Ellis, Louisa Fisher, Martha E. Fisher, Louisa E. Fleming, Samantha Fridley, Lizzie* Frazier, Helen Fish, Julia Frazier, Anna Feeley, Rachel B. Fearman. Ellen Feeley, Sarah Feeley, Lizzie Finkbine, Ann Francisco, Charity Foreman, Maggie Funk, Minnie Funk, Katie Fillio, Tonie Fouke, Minnie Fox, Mary E. Farley, Mary Francisco, Lizzie Fouke, Gussia Fathergail, Mattie French, Ada Graham, Mattie A Guilford, Esther Gregory, lone Guilford, Maria Gregory, Luella* Graham, Sarah E. Guy, Marie E. SHELBYVILL^ SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 71 Guilford, Libbie Gollagher, Barbara* Garvin, Lissa* Green, Jane Groves, Harriet Groves, Lizzie Green, Frances Graham, Minnie A. Groves, Amanda Gregory, Stella* Gans, Minnie Graham, Phenia Gollagher, Minerva Gollagher, Mattie Huber, Eliza* Headen, Ella M. Headen, Anna Higgins, Harriet* Higgius, Nancy J. Huber, Ellen Headen, Nannie B. Higgins, Mary A. Haydon, Rachel* Hall, Ella* Harmon, Addie Harris, Margaret Harrison, Maggie Harris, Eliza Headen, Mattie Hodgson, Hannah Higginbotham, Anna Hart, Lizzie Hall, Dora A. Harshy, Emma Hebel, Caroline Hebel, Mary Hebel, Carrie Harkey, Clara Hall, Nancy J.* Holding, Rachel Hall, Maggie Harkey, Alice Harnett, Illinois W. Haydon, Mary Headen, Lulu Harris, Katie Henry, Emma Hickman, Mattie Hardy, Allie* Horubeck, Mary Hunt, Ella Hunt, Jane Hart, Mary Headen, Jennie* Hart, Martha Hall, Lutie Hannam'an, Mary Harris, Mattie Henry, Addie Harding, Annie Hardy, Fannie Haydon, Mary Hall, Katie Harriett, Eva Johnson, Sarah E. Jones, Lucy E. Jackson, Artemisia* Jarnagau, Mary Jones, Helen Jackson, Louisa Johnson, Eva Jackson, Josephine Jerome, Mary G. Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Carrie Jordan, Mary Jolly, May Jolly, Lizzie Kensil, Mary Knatz, Annie Kiuney, Katie Kellar, Mary Kennedy, Hannah Kelley, Mary Kerr, Lizzie* Kerr, Caroline* Kellar, Anna Kratz, Elizabeth! Keeler, Jennie Kline, Mary Kelley, Mary Kearney, Louella Kellar, Addie Keeler, Cora Keeler, Viola Laws, Belle Lantz, Eliza Lantz, Mary Lloyd, Emma Lazarus, Tillie Livers, Artelia Lufkin, Lottie Lowe, Susan Lowe, Eva Lengs, Ornah Levering, Dora Munsell, Mary C. Munsell, Emma Miller, Sarah J. Moulton, Fannie Matties. Martha McCracken, Mary E.* McMorris, Emma L. Moulton, Hannah Middlesworth, Isabel* McGullion, Nancy Mitchel, Maryt McDonald, Ann Moore, Adelia McGinnis, Eugenia* Moberly, Mary* Middlesworth, Sarah Middlesworth, Lizzie Middleton, Victoria Merrifield, Mary Murry, Rebecca MeSherry, Nancy McCliutoch, Fidelia Marks, Nellie Maxwell, Ella McElroy, Mary Malone, Jennie Martin, Julia H. Matties, Laura Martin, Frances Martin, Katie Murdock, Belle McKibben, Clara McKinuey Mary Mills, Clara McElroy, Allie* Murdock, Jennie Nabb, Cynthia Nichols, Sarah New, Georgiana Oliver, Eliza Oliver, Sarah J. Oliver, Margery Oliver, Sarah Oliver, Emily Oliver, Lulu Oliver, Mary Oiler, Olive Parish, Diadema Phillips, Nancy Phillips, Melvira Parish, Pedrilla P. Prentiss, Anna Pugh, Caroline Pugh, Mary A. Poor, Arabella Pen well, Helen* Pen well, Mary Phelps, Harriet Purcell, Mary Phelps, Nancy Phillips, Nancy J, Perry man, Emeline Perryman. Elizabeth Pen well, Susan Pugh, Alice Pugh, Belle Perryman, Nancy Park, Belle Park, Jennie* Perryman, Maryt Page, Fannie* Park, Fannie Park, Alice Probst, Carrie Pugh, Nannie* Pugh, Cynthia Prentiss, Lizzie Price, Carrie Purndl, Amelia Patterson, Emma 72 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Parker, Mollie Quick, Mary Roberts, Mary A. Roberts, Laura E. Reed, Sarah E. Reese, Mary* . Reed, Matilda Roberts, Mattie A. Rumsay, Sarah A.t Renshaw, Lizzie Rice, Henrietta* Rice, Sarah Reed, Talitha Rice, Pollie A. Reed, Martha Rodgers, Mahala Rutherford, Helen Rodders, Mary Reed, Eliza Ribble, Jennie Rutherford, Laura Roland, Jane S.* Roland, Ann Smith, Rie N. Stumpf, Eliza* Stilgebower, Katie Smith, Lizzie Scroggins, Barbara Scovil, Frances Smith, Olivia F. Smith, Kate H. Selby, Martha Selby, Mary E. Smith, Lizzie H. Sim, Ann Stewart, Sarahf Suttou, Samantha Smith, Clara Scovil, Lavinia Stilgebower, Barbara Sayers, Eliza* Stuart, Mattie Silver, Emnia G. Sayers, Ellen* Smith, Mattie B. Sears, Carlie Sackett, Clara Sittler, Mary Smith , Isabel Steen, Jennie Smith, Eliza Smith Roxilla Scovil, Alice Scovil, Clara Silver, BeUe Silver, Hattie Surnerlin, Lelia Scott, Narcissus Shaw, Ella Switzer, Louisa Stewardson, Mary Steen, Mollie Swiuford, Katie Sutton, Jennie Swallow, Anna K.* Taff, Sarah Tackett, Lizzie Trimble, Eliza Tallman, Katie Tuttle, Lizzie Thomas, Nancy Ticknor, Louisa Travis, Emma Travis, Fannie Thompson, Lettie Tallman, Jane Thornton, Hannah Turney, Louisa Ticknor, Katie Tallman, Alice Tackett, Mattie Trower, Mary Talbert, Kate Travis, Thirrissa * Travis, Alva Underwood, Sarah Underwood, Ellen Vandyke, Celestia Venters, Eliza Vandine, Mary J. Vandine, Artemisia Williams. Mary A. Williams, Lizzie Weudling, Antonia* Woodward, Mary C.* Williams, Eliza* W T uuenburg, Julia Whm, Sarah J. Woodward, Belle P, Winson, Mary* Wiuson, Margaret VViun, Mary E. Weeks, Jane E.* Wells, Mary Waggoner, Laurissa J. Watkiu, Julia Walker, Valeria Wade, Mary Woolford, Lizzie Wren, Nannie Wade, Mary J. Wade, Frances Wade, Emma Wright, Martha Wendliug, Lizzie Wright, Ada* Williams, Charity Williams, Frances Wright, Myrtle Wright. Gazelle Wade, Clara B. Wright, Nancy Wright, Dora West, Annie Wilson, Ellen Webster, Talley Wetzel, Lottie Ward, Maggie A.* Wright, Nannie Williams, Priscilla Woodward, Emily Warren, Cynthia Wright, Mollie Webster, Mary Weakley, Celia Warriner, Clara Wright, Antonia Wade, Alice Walden, Sarepta Young, Florence A. Yost, Alice C.* Young, Belle THEY ARE NOT FOEGOTTEN. The foregoing list of names are given as furnished by Mr. Jerome. This list includes all who attended the school during his administration. They are alphabetically arranged for con- venient reference and are printed just as they were known in school days. This seems most appropriate in a memorial vol- ume, for we love to think and speak of our old school mates SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 73 and pupils by the same names we knew them by in "the dearie days of yore." While no one of us knew all those names and faces together, yet every name in the above list will be recognized by many of us and many of the names and faces are cherished very tenderly in memory to this day. If the story of each, might be told it would be varied with sunny and c?oudy weather, with smiles and tears. We should like to know and give in these pages a bit of the history of each one ; but this is impossible. We have found it impossible to give even all the changes in names and present residences of all the teachers and pupils "old Time" makes so many changes in this mortal sphere within twenty or thirty years. We have attempted in the first catalogue to give married name of females, note all deaths, and give post-office address of all those living; but, finding this task so difficult, in the time we had to spare for it, and failing to complete even that list, we have concluded not to attempt it at all in this last larger list which includes also the iiBmes of the first catalogue. Each one who reads the names may supply from memory; and in time we may together renew old acquaintance. Let each believe that she or he is not forgotten, but only missed, lost in the wide, wide world and multitude of years, until the final meeting by and by. Of the students who were enrolled under those who held the principalship during Mr. Jerome's absence we have tried hard but failed to get any reliable record. From first to last there were enrolled in the school under Mr. Jerome, 1062 pupils, many of whom have become noble and distinguished men and woman. More than three hundred 'have ''gone on before." During the late war over eighty were in the Federal army, and two in the Confederate. Seventeen were killed in battle, or died in hospital or camp, and two starved at Andersonville ; three were drowned, two assassinated and one burned. Among those living are to be found ministers physicians, lawyers, journalists and teachers not a few, to say nothing of many others holding positions of honor and trust, a host of enterprising men and women. 74 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. Those who have consented to be presented in these pages by likeness and life sketch, have done so for the sake of gratifying dear old teachers, pupils or schoolmates and friends, and thus do their pait to add interest to the volume and make it more of what each possessor of a copy would like it to be, namely: a sort of picture gallery and pleasant reminder of once familiar faces. Yes, we should eagerly look at the picture of every face and read every life story. But this cannot be in this world; and, considering the difficulties in securing the few portraits and sketches we have, we trust the reader will not be too much disappointed that there are not more pictures and completer biographies. -mm-. CKOlidE A'. WEJfDLING. SKETCHES OF SOME OF THE TEACHEES AND STUDENTS. Our lives are albums written through With good or ill, with false or true. -WHITTIER. CHAELES W. JEEOME. What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teaoh and instruct our youth. CICERO. Teaching is one of the highest and most important of human occupations. It is the sight of truth which awak- ens the human soul, rouses its activities, and constitutes the principle of human progress. The respect paid to teachers in any community is a measure of the intelligence of that community. Late sermon by Dr. James Freeman Clarke. President Eliot of Harvard University, in a paper on education, some time ago, remarked of a certain teacher that he was never regarded as very successful as an in- structor of some branches of technical knowledge, he may have not been an expert in some of the improved methods of instruction, but none of his pupils will e'ver forget the unaffected reverence with which he repeated the Lord's Prayer with them every morning. "It may be," says this learned president, "that the -spirit of reverence which those pupils caught from that teacher has had a much better influence upon their lives than all the science which he failed to teach them would have done." Technical knowledge of books and things is not the highest, best knowledge; knowledge is not virtue; it is not necessarily good character and right conduct, in short it is not spirit and life, and it requires these to give the good example that is as much better than precept as the life ot Christ was better than the mere letter of the law. 76 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. There is an unconscious influence going out constantly from the spirit and life ot a teacher that impresses his or her pupils, independently of the will, and teaches them worse or better than all the science and art that they may learn. We really influence those about us with what we actually ARE, in intent, inhabit, in spirit, and in daily life. If a teacher has an impure heart, an unclean tongue or bad habits, God in heaven only knows the hurtful shad- ows he may cast over the future life of his pupils; but if, on the contrary, he breathes a true spirit and shows him- self free from bad habits, the shadows he casts over the lives of his pupils are like the healthful shade of the tree whose leaves are for the healing of nations. In fact the teachers who have cast healing rather thau hurting shadows upon me, the teachers who have taught me most how to show myself a man and helped me to make the most of life have been those who breathed a spirit of true reverence. The one teacher, so far as I know, that did more to influence my life for good than all others, my mother and father of course excepted, was a man of genuine piety; he prayed for me and with me and gave me a friendly hand and an encouraging word when I felt most the need of them; he proved by his courteous bearing and noble example that his morning prayer with his pupils meant more than his words or all the book knowledge that he taught could express. And to-day that I am not more a slave to an evil master, bound to some unclean habit, it might have baen the habit of smoking or chewing that which the Creator never made for the mouth of decent men. that I am not to-day chain- ed to such habits is largely to the credit of him, who, while pointing me to that city into which no unclean thing enters, did himself lead the way. Extract from an old sermon by one of C. W. Jerome's early pupils. Charles Wesley Jerome was born in Onondaga county, Xe\v York, September 8, 1828. His father was from the state of Connecticut and his mother was from the Green Mountains of Vermont. They were Puritanical, somewhat, in their ideas, and he was brought up much under that notion. His parents moved to the state of Illinois when he was a lad of six sum- mers, and here he has lived most of the time ever since. He attended such subscription schools as were held in the neighborhood only attending about three or four months in the year. Free schools were not in existence in this country 'SHELBTVTLLE SEMINAKY MEMOBIAL. 77 then. He lived on the farm; his boyhood was spent there His parents were poor. In 1848 he went to McKendree College and by his own efforts and hard studying he graduated there in 1852. He worked for his tuition and board and came out in debt but paid all up after he came to teach in Shelbyville, 111, The writer of this sketch has heard Mr. Jerome laugh as he told how he used to repeat over and over again to himself the conjugation of the Latin, "A/c, /itcc, hoc, etc." while he was milk- ing the cows where he worked nights and mornings for his board; thus he laid the foundation of his success as Professor of Greek and Latin to the tune of the milk pail, one among the multitude of examples of men who have in youth struggled through poverty, and by the labor of their own hands and with good habits, by grace of God, have achieved high, honor- able and useful position in lifa When he was a boy of sixteen years he joined the Meth- odist church at Bethel Gamp Ground in Jersey county, Illinois. He was led to this step through the efforts of a precious and now sainted mother, whose memory and love he greatly vener- ates to this day. His mother died in 1847 and his father in 1865. His father was a Methodist preacher and a good man. Immediately after graduation in 1852, he was called to Danville Seminary as first assistant teacher in that institution. He remained there a year and a half and was then appointed principal of Shelby Seminary. He remained at the head of this school fifteen years. He went to the army in 1862 and served as 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quarter Master for three years and then returned to teach in Shelbyville again. In 1869 he went to Shelbyville, Tenn., and was principal of Bedford Male and Female Seminary, and in 1874 he was invited to a position which he still holds, Professor of Latin and Registrar of Southern Illinois State Normal University at Carbondale, 111. Mr. Jerome has taught in but four places in all his life; and during all his active labors as instructor in secular knowledge he has been an enthusiastic worker in the Sunday 78 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. school; in fact, as a Sunday school organizer and worker he has few superiors. Prompt at his duties all week, the Sabbath day has always found him at his post as Sunday school superin- tendent and as a worshipper of the God of his father and mother. Mr. Jerome was married to Miss Eugenia A. Morrison, of Delaware, Ohio, August 31, 1858. By this marriage there are two children, Charles M., now eighteen years old and Carrie Olivia, 12 years old. Whatever his defects as a teacher may have been, C. W. Jerome has nevertheless borne long acquaintance and worn well wherever he has lived and taught. The record of these pages is an enduring witness to his virtues as a faithful teacher, loving friend and exemplary Christian gentleman. He is known as a man of unusual strength of character and un- bounded enthusiasm. As Principal of Shelby Seminary, he had the insight necessary to enable him in his work to secure for the most part, able assistants, and the ability to win for them and himself the highest esteem and confidence of his pupils. He is thus spoken of by the Hon. Geo. R. Wendling: "As an instructor and disciplinarian he was without a superior. No teacher ever met with more invariable success in winning the respect and confidence of his pupils, without which no teacher can influence for good those in his care. Many of those who fifteen or twenty-five years ago, were led by his kind hand with almost paternal care along the troubled paths that must be trodden by all youthful beginners, remember now, amid the duties of active life, the influence for good he wielded over them." In conclusion it is scarcely too much to say that to Charles Wesley Jerome more than any other man is due the unusual in- telligence of this community, and the inspiration which has led many of those who call the old Seminary Alma Maier, on to the best and highest things in life. MRS. EUGENIA A. M. JEROME was born in Bath, N. H., June SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 79 25, 1834. Her father was a noted physician. There were five girls and three sons in the family. The subject of this sketch was next to the youngest. She spent thirteen years of her life in the old Granite State, went to school in New York and began to teach school in Berea, Ohio, in 1852. She has taught in Tiffin, Ohio; Conesus, New York; Moore's Hill, Indiana; Shelby ville, Illinois; Bedford Male and Female Seminary, Shelby ville, Ten- -nessee, and is now teaching a large class in Carbondale, Illinois. Mrs. Jerome is a woman of unusual energy and marked ability as a teacher and has proved a valuable helpmate to her husband, in the home and the school-room. CALEB C. BUEKOUGHS. Caleb C. Burroughs, son of Joseph and Bebecca Burroughs, was born June 5, 1829, in Prince Frederick, Calvert county, Maryland. His parents moved from Maryland when he was in his eighth year of age, and settled in Madison county, Illinois in July, 1837, and lived for a few months in a log cabin. After spending a season here his father bought a farm near Edwardsville, the county seat. Here he lived working through the spring, summer and fall and going to school from two and a half to three months in the winter, till he was twenty-one, when he was sent to what was then considered a school of high grade, in Edwardsville. Then being inspired with higher as- pirations, his parents sent him to McKendree college, Lebanon, Illinois, where he took a scientific course and graduated at the end of three years, teaching each vacation and in this way helping his parents pay his expenses. Inthe fall of 1854, after he had finished his course at McKendree, he was engaged to teach as Preceptor in the Scientific Department of Shelby Sem- inary, and in the fall of 1856, Mr. Jerome and he started in the book business in Decatur, Illinois; Mr. Jerome remaining only a short time and Mr. Burroughs continuing. In the book business he succeeded quite well, and, at the end of seven years when he sold out to engage in other business, was worth, in round numbers, $20,000.00. He then engaged in the business 80 SHELBYV1LLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL, in which he is now employed, the Union Iron Works at Decatur 111., associating with him, Mr. James .Millikin, a wealthy banker of Kansas City, Mo. For eighteen years he was general man- ager and president of these Works and Company. His health failing because of incessant lalx>rs in Decatur, he was relieved from duty,, somewhat, and went to Kansas City, Mo., to look after the interest of the company in the west, and has lived there since, greatly improved in health. He has always been a faithful Sunday school worker. Soon after he went to Decatur and engaged in the book business he was elected superintendent of the Methodist Sun- day school which position he held for thirteen years. When he took charge of the school there were about one hundred in attendance and the interest increased until there were over six: hundred attending, Mr. Burroughs was married to Miss Nancy J. Phillips soon after engaging in business in Decatur. She was one of the first teachers of music in the Seminary and an excellent woman. She was a kind helpmate until she passed away from earth a few years since. He was converted at a Presbyterian camp-meeting when he was thirteen years old, and the first chance that was offered he joined the M. E. Church and in that church he has lived and an it he expects to die and go home to Heaven singing Methodist songs. Those who were pupils of Mr. Burroughs in Shelby ville will ever remember him as one of the faithful three who took their turn daily in that upper room at those morning prayers which still linger with us as precious benedictions. May the influence of those prayers help us along life's road until we meet at last in the many mansions of our Heavenly Father ! ROBERT M. BELL. Robert M. Bell was born, August 16, 1832, near Brighton, Macoupin county, Illinois. His parents were Jeremiah and Mary Bell. He \vas converted and joined the M. E. Church Sept- SHELBYYILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 81 tember, 5, 1843. When he was eighteen years of age his father placed him in McKendree College, but he did not graluate. At the age of twenty he began teaching. In the fall of 1853 he was connected with the Danville, (Illinois) Seminary. In March 1854 he was assistant to Prof. C. W. Jerome in Shelby Seminary. In the fall of 1855 he went to Jacksonville, Illinois, and pursued some studies in the Illinois College under Prof. Sturtevant. The next year he was principal in the public school at Edwards- ville, Illinois. At the close of that school he began farming on his father's farm near Brighton, Illinois. Near the close of the war he decided to make the rearing and breeding of Spanish Merino sheep a specialty. To this he gave his best efforts as a practical handler of sheep and wool as well as a writer and critic in these matters. Mr. Bell has earned quite a fame as a sheep grower and a writer on live stock, generally. In the wool-growing interests he has visited Vermont, the Canadas, and in the West, Col- orado and several times to California, also Nevad?, New Mexico and Texas. He has sold thousands of sheep in the West and South. His reputation in this line is more than national. In England he has been accounted an expert, and his articles in American stock journals have been copied in England. For many years he was editor of the sheep department of the Rural World of St. Louis, Missouri. He was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Huber of Shelby- ville, 111., February 4, 1858, by whom he was blessed with five children. Miss Huber will be remembered as one of the first pupils and afterward one of the teachers in the Seminary. She was, as a pupil and schoolmate, beloved by all, and as a teacher and woman she was greatly admired for her many noble quali- ties. On April 17, 1877, this true wife and loving mother was called up higher. On Christmas day, 1878, Mr. Bell was married to Miss Frances Langworthy of Princeton, 111., and in May 1882, he em- igrated to Shannon county, Mo., near Somerville, Texas county, 82 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. and here he has the reputation of running a sheep ranch on the Ozark Mountains. Pleasant are our memories of this one of the first three teachers of what was then called "Shelby Academy." JASPEE L. DOUTHIT. BY GEORGE K. WENDLING. A mere etching, omitting many of the bright lights and dark shadows, is all the narrow space assigned me will permit, as I attempt to very briefly sketch in barest outline, Jasper Douthit's life and doings. Hands more deft, but none warmer with hearty sympathy for the subject matter, could be found; and so I turn with pleasure to write here lines for the pages of our Seminary Memorial. I asked him the other day to give me the year of his birth and a few data concerning his school days, his marriage, and his ministry. I thought that I perhaps could here go on and fill the canvas from my own knowledge of his career. But his reply to my request is so simple as it lies before me now, the merest scrawl, so homely, like his own gig in which we often see him doing his mission work, so unpretentious like his work itself, and withal so manly, that I shall surely put aside my own poor brush and colorings and let him draw his own picture all the more life-like because he never dreamed that I would send it to the printer. To me, who knows so much of what he barely hints at, there is as much pathos in Jasper's simple story as in one of Dicken's master pieces. I was born four miles from Shelbyville, Illinois, October 10, 1834; raised to hard work on a farm;- -went to school winters about nine months altogether; left home against my fathers will in eager search of an education; attended the first day the Seminary opened at the old Methodist church; swept floor and built fires to pay tuition and worked nights and mornings for my board till I began to teach in the primary department; left the Seminary in 1856 and went to Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, for six mouths; boarded myself while here and lived mostly on bread and baked potatoes, and stopped because of failing health; always puuy from birth and inclined to suffer from nervous prostration and have not got over it although I do more mental \vork every year; tried JASPER L. DOUTHIT. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 83 the drug business and failed in 1857, about a month after being married to Miss Emily Lovell of Abiugton, Mass, by whom am father of four children, two sons and two daughters circle un- broken and ail at home. My parents were Hardshell Baptists, but I worshipped with the Methodists after going to the Semi- .nary until 1862 when I made the acquaintance of and was ordained to preach by the Unitarians. In 18(34 I entered The- ological School at Meadville, Pa., and graduated three years later; preached a while at Princeton, Illinois, and then begun missionary work in Shelby county, Illinois where I have labor- ed ever since 1867 to do all the good I can to everybody I can. Must regret that I have not done more. You know the rest. But I beg you, my brother, make it brief and simple. I only want credit for good motives through life's battle so far; but candidly I don't feel that I deserve any praise. Yes, many of us "know the rest." And that "rest" means seventeen years, long years, since 1867, of self sacrifice and ceaseless toil in sunlight and by starlight, and upon my word I do believe he suffered it all and did it all for Christ's sake. For seventeen years this sickly sort of a man has been a poor Unitarian preacher here at our doors. In a vague sort of a way many good people thought until of late years that Unitarianism was a thing not quite so vulgar as Ingersollism but every whit as bad as Voltairism and not nearly so comfort- ing a thing as damnation for infants and a sulphurous hell for adults. And so Jasper was not received for awhile in any of our orthodox pulpits on Thanksgiving days and such like occasions. I used to think in those days, that I must have been a coward or I would have said it aloud, that just that sort of orthodoxy made war on Christ, Luther and Wesley. This poor Unitarian heretic went his quiet way as I saw him year after year, lived down a senseless prejudice against his church, erected a beautiful place of worship in our town, gathered about him a large congregation, most of them sadly needing the in- fluence of a good man (almost to the same degree as other con- gregations in our town) and now has a splendid Sunday-school, maintains a country mission, edits a pure newspaper, and I will testify everywhere that his whole life work and example in this county has been an evangel of peace, temperance and purity. W SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. He was a Republican and a friend to the negro. God bless him for this latter and forgive him for I have long known and honored Mr. Douthit for his ardent devotion to the cause of truth and to the work of Christ. In an age when zeal is apt to be shallow, and liberality tends to in- difference, it is refreshing to find one who fully believes in rational religion and mental progress, who is bound by no fet- ters to the past, and who yet has the zeal of a Xavier, and the devotion to his work of the most self-denying Apostles of the cross. He does not know how to compromise, he must say his word whether men hear or forbear, and so his future, not more than his past, is not likely to be a path of flowers, but he will have the inward peace which comes to every sincere soul, and the cespect of all honest men. That is a great deal for a thoughtful and careful writer like James Freeman Clarke to say of any man. Here is what the genial and famous Robert Collyer writes me from New York: I think your friend and mine, J. L. D., is a good illustration of a truth I love to ponder, that there are "elect" men always for the time and place, and Jasper was such a man. He was needed, very sorely needed, and he came, as I fhink of him, in answer to the need, and stays, thank God. The old Indian chief said to a friend of mine after hearing a discourse, "You have done well if you don't think so," and that is proof to me of Jasper's election to be the man he is, he is so stricken with the sense that he isn't worth his salt most times. Edward Everett Hale, the eloquent preacher and graceful author, writes from Boston and says: You must know, I think, how a visit from Mr. Douthit is always welcomed in Boston. He is gratefully heard in all our pulpits and we wish he came on here more often. His eager and hearty interest in his work in Illinois has been the only reason why a speaker so eloquent has not long since been transferred here. More of the same sort at hand, but I remember now that Mr. Douthit himself is editor of this Memorial Volume, and I am sure, from what I know of the man that if I re-produce all that testimony he will cancel his agreement with me to publish what I write about him an agreement, by the by, of my exacting. But what is written is written, and it shall go into the Volume against his protest if needs be, for the best that could be written of him would still be an inadequate tribute to the best of all the boys our dear old Seminary sent forth. 86 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. A GROUP OF SISTERS. One of the first teachers in Shelby county was Addison Smith, "May his tribe increase." He was a native of Vermont and a graduate of Burlington University; he started the first newspaper in Dayton, Ohio, and helped to found a University at Bloomington, Indiana, and from this latter place he came to Shelbyville about the year 1832. Addison Smith received much of his early education from his uncle, Dudley Chase, who served as United States Senator from Vermont for twelve years. Mr. Smith and Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase were first cousins. He was a poor man, that is, poor in this world's goods, but rich in inherited and acquired virtues, strictly tem- perate, honest, intelligent, and religious; and equally so was his most excellent wife, whose maiden name was Hicks, one of the most influential families of Hopkinsville Kentucky. To this noble pair, our city is indebted for a large contribution to its in- telligence, public spirit and good morals. But Mr. Smith was too far ahead of his time in most respects to have his thought and work fully appreciated in his day. As a schoolmaster he encountered almost incredible prejudice. " Why," they said, "that man is crazy (the word "cranky" was not then in use), for he insists that the world is round instead of flat." This objection was actually made fifty years ago in this county against this noble man and excellent school teacher. Mr. Smith and his good wife were very domestic and de- voted to their children. He taught them himself and gathered them around the hearth-stone and read and talked with them about the old English classics and the Book of books. Their family consisted of one son and six daughters. Every one of these has been a good teacher in our midst in more ways than one a teacher by the example of pure lives as well as by precept although the son, Col. Dudley Chase Smith, now of Normal, Illinois, has never been a sch'oolm aster, technically. The daughters have every one taught school, more or less, and in Shelby county. The two eldest, Lucia (Mrs. Lufkin) and LIZ/IE SMITH. MAKIA N. SMITH (CHAFEE). OLIVIA P. SMITH (CRAIGHEAD). KATE H. SMITH (THORNTON). SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 87 Sarah J. ( Mrs. Dexter) were among the first, if not the fhst, females who taught in the rural districts of this county. The writer of this sketch must revere the memory of Mrs. Dexter for teaching him, in a little log school house, nearly all he knew of books until he was grown. That was at least forty years ago when the good school mistress was so youthful that on the first morning of her school some of her pupils at first sight mistook her for a young pupil. The flood of yeais have carried away from earth the father, mother and this daughter; but they all still live in the memory of those whom their lives have blessed, they still live also in the faces, graces and virtues of their surviving children. All of these children but the three oldest daughters are natives of this county. The four sisters that we are permitted to present in a group for this Memorial are too well known to most of the students and teachers of Shelby Seminary to require any intro- duction. Miss LIZZIE SMITH is still living, the same cheerful, youth- ful, quiet and even tempered lady she was twenty-five years ago. She spends her days in a life retired from much of the noisy world, but scattering sunshine in the homes of her brothers and sisters. Miss KATE H. SMITH, after graduating with high honors at Glendale Female College, Ohio, taught there during the years of 1857 and 1858. She also taught in Jacksonville, Illi- nois, Female College and at St. Agnes Hall, Terre Haute, In- diana. She was associated in teaching with Rev. Mr. Pollock in Shelby Seminary during the year 1865 and in Okaw Seminary in 1866. In August, of this latter year she was united in mar- riage with Hon. Anthony Thornton. She is mother of two children, a son and daughter, and now lives a domestic life in this city of her nativity, happy in the simple, but high, duties of wife, mother and Christian neighbor. Miss OLIVIA P. SMITH, was one of the earliest and best music teachers of Shelby Seminary and one we all love to re- >>s SHELBY VILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. member kindly. After graduating at Glendale Female College, she went to Paris, Illinois, to teach music and there she w;is united in marriage at the age of twenty years to Sheridan P. Reed, a lawyer of ihat place, who commanded a Regiment and was killed in the first engagement at the Battle of Stone River, in 1862. In 1868 she was married to John P. Craig- head of New York City. She has one son who graduated at Harvard University at the age of twenty-one and who is now married and traveling in Europe, and one daughter who is the wife of a Congregational minister in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Craighead's home with her husband is now in Jersey City. Miss MARIA X. SMITH, the youngest of the four sisters, finished her school years at Glendale Female College, Ohio. She was thereupon promoted to teacher of music in h&cAlma Mater, which was a high honor as that school was and is justly famed for its music. She afterwards taught music in the Ohio Female College at College Hill, also in Illinois Normal Univer- sity at Normal. She was married to Hon. George D. Chafee, one of our foremost lawyers, in 1868; and here, in Shelby ville, Illinois, she resides, blessed with two sons and two daughters, busy as house-wife and mother, and ready to lend her musical voice and her hands to every needy and worthy cause of charity, temperance and religion. As we think of that noble father and mother, struggling against poverty, but diligently training their children to habits of industry and virtue, and then reflect how these children have risen up to bless the memory of their parents, we can but ex- claim: Behold how far sweet, pure lives may shine into a. naughty world ! AY. H. WEBSTER. W. H. Webster was born in Schoharie county, N. Y., Sept., '26, 1835. At an early age he removed witli his father to Wyoming county, where he attended school, learned to read, and became much interested in reading the books of the school library in the district where he lived. Here, when he was nine SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMOEIAL. 89 years old his father died, and his mother removing to Ohio, died there about a year after his father. Thereafter his home was with an older sister until her death which occurred at Danville, Illinois, when he was about thirteen years old. From this he lived among strangers, and made his own way in the world. He did chores, cut wood, hoed gardens, painted houses, and clerked in stores anything to make a living and read and studied at odd times as he could. When sixteen years of age, he began to attend Danville Seminary, in which Prof. C. W. Jerome was then teacher. During the next three years he attended this school as he was able to do, being compelled to stay out a large part of the time and work or teach school, to pay expenses. After this he spent two years in Asbury Univer- sity, Greencastle, Indiana, and still later attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he graduated in the classical course in the year 1859. He had meanwhile taught school in various places, and had spent one school year as teacher in old Shelby Seminary, then in charge of Prof. C. W. Jerome. He had, when about fourteen years old, united with the M. E. Church, and a short time before graduating, had been licensed to preach. In the fall of 1859 he joined the Illinois Conference, and has been a member of that body and in active work ever since, except one year when he retired because of ill health. He has been pastor of ch arches in Champaign, Urbana, Decatur, Quincy, Bloomington, Springfield and Jacksonville, and presi- ding elder on Jacksonville, Springfield and Danville District. Mr. Webster is a man of marked ability as pastor and preacher. He has usually left his charges stronger than when he took them and in many cases greatly augmented the mem- bership of the church. All who knew this Christian man at Shelby Seminary have grateful recollections of his faithful services as teacher and friend. In 1863 he was married to Augusta Robinson of Danville, Illinois, who has been his very faithful helpmate through life. 90 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. PARKHURST T. MARTIN. Parkhurst T. Martin was born in the village of Jersey, Licking county, Ohio, March 1, 1838, received a fair common- school education in the village district school came to Illinois in 1856 at the age of eighteen, taught a common school for about one year in Macoupiii county; came to Shelby ville in the fall of 1858; attended Shelby Seminary about one year as a pupil and taught primary department of same part of one term in spring of 1860. In the fall of 1860 he went to Marietta College intending to take a college course, but the war breaking out returned home and joined the 14th Illinois Regiment of Infantry and served as a private soldier until his regiment was mustered out in June 1864. In February, 1865, raised a new company under last call for volunteers and with his company was assigned to duty as Captain of Company K, 14th Illinois Infantry. He was mustered out in September, 1865. After service a year and a half as teacher in Shelby Seminary, purchased a ha] f interest in Shelby County Union, and later his partner's interest, and edited and conducted the Union, assisted by his brother, E. H. Martin, until the fall of 1873, when he sold his interest in the Union and removed to Danville, Illinois, where for seven years he was editor of the the Danville Daily and Weekly Commercial, retiring therefrom on account of poor health, caused by wounds received in the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and overwork. Recovering somewhat, he established the Danville Saturday Opinion, a literary and temperance paper, but his health breaking down entirely he was compelled to abandon that enterprise. Mr. Martin was married December 30, 1867, to Miss Ellen Huber, daughter of the late Henry Huber, of Shelbyville, Illi- nois, to whom have been born five children all sons. The oldest died in infancy ; the other four are living. The foregoing brief record shows that Mr. Martin has been actuated by worthy ambition and a noble purpose through life. Those of us who know him best can testify to his fidelity SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 91 and efficiency in whatever sphere he has been called to act, whether as a teacher, soldier or editor. He has been always found on the side of Law and Order, Liberty and Union, Tem- perance and Religion. GEORGE R. WENDL1NG. Many people who have attended lyceum lectures in this country during the past half dozen years as a large number of intelligent men and women have will have seen and heard this famous young orator, George R. Wendling When asked, not long since, about his ancestry, for a bio- graphical sketch in an eastern paper, Mr. Wendling wrote: Nothing to boast of in the way of achievements, I reckon, and nothing to be ashamed of, I know: but in the way of the homely qualities of industry, virtue, piety, and excellent repute, a good deal to be proud of. Still, my mother, who died twenty years ago, was far above the average in quick intelligence and many splendid traits I think a remarkable woman. It was however the old story, quite familiar in many households here in Illinois some fifty years ago: financial reverses drove her family from Virginia to the West. My father's family came from near Strasbourg, then in France. His father was a soldier under Napoleon, and died here a few years ago at the comfortable age of ninety-five, one of the very few men in these times able to say that they were in the wonderful Italian campaign of 1796, with the great Buonaparte, and with him on his March to Moscow. My father began and spent his early Illinois life as a mechanic and afterwards became a well-to-do farmer, residing in the town. I recollect that as mayor of our town, he fined me once when I was home from college in vacation, and owing to the state of my finances he paid the fine himself. It was all about a very naughty fight on the street between two quick- tempered young fellows, and I was one of them. He has been living in retirement here in our town of Shelby ville, for the last twenty years, a stern old Puritan in his high morality and in- flexible religious notions, and I think it is not immodest for me to say that for half a century every man and woman in the county has had the utmost respect for him. Some Scotch and some Irish blood on my mother's side, and some French and some German blood on my father's side, a somewhat cosmopol- itan genealogy but it is a half a dozen generations too soon to ask a western man to tell you minutely about his ancestry be- yond one or two generations. We are too busy yet out west for such luxuries as genealogical trees. Wait and ask our great grandchildren. 92 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. George K. Weudling was born in Shelbyville, Illinois, January 15, 1845, and, excepting the few years he resided in Bloomington, Illinois, and in St. Louis, Missouri, he has lived all his life time, when not at college, in his native town. He attended for several years the academy at his home, after which he continued his studies for a period at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. In a short time the excited condition of affairs in that portion of Ohio, growing out of the war, induced a change to the University of Chicago, where he remained until called home by the death of his mother. At the Chicago Uni- versity he won, at the age of eighteen, the declamation prize, competed for by the entire Freshman class. He studied at home a year under the tutelage of a highly educated clergyman of the Episcopal church. He then returned to Chicago, and took the law course in the law department of the University, and returned in 1866 to his home, where he engaged for several years with marked success in the practice of law, for most of the time, as partner of Judge Anthony Thornton. On June 1, 1870, Mr. Wendling was married to Miss Josephine Stephenson of Virginia; and by this happy union his home is blessed with two daughters and one son on earth, and one son in heaven. The Wendling home is a spacious cottage that seems to say, "Welcome," located on the corner just across the street north of the old Academy where George took his first lessons in books and where, in the words of another, he was "often warmly in- fluenced by his worthy teacher." "George," as a little boy, was full and bubbling over with all sorts of fancies, quips, and quirks. He was prone to ask many questions to the teacher during recitation, and thus lead to a ganeral conversation away from the lesson, especially if he had not studied the lesson, as he was not likely to have done unless it was of special interest to him. We look back over thirty years and see the old class room filled with young men and women at recitation, and the one small curly-headed, black-eyed boy the youngest in the SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORCAL. 93 class engaging the attention of all. Yes, we can almost see the sparkle in those eyes, and the bold, solemn, surprised look the boy would put on after he had put a query to the teacher, or made a remark that threw the whole class into a convulsion of laughter. The disposition to slight the lesson in the text book, and study or not as the whim took him, was contrary to all true ideas of school life among teachers of Puritan training of those days. This may partly explain "the warming influence" that the boy received; who, because he was full of life and play when quite a boy, was preserved with a sound body and vigorous mind, and so enabled to pursue the studies in more mature years that have made him the useful man that he is. George B. Wendling's career and fame as a lyceutn orator is well known to most of our readers. When very young he suddenly rose to public notice. An ardent Democrat in politics and living in a strongly Democratic district, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention which framed, in 1870, the present Constitution of Illinois. He was the youngest member of that body, being only in his twenty-fifth year, but he was then regarded by the press of Illinois as the most brilliant orator of the assembly. He was brought into the Methodist church through a great revival, when about twelve years old. He afterward, as he be- gan to think more for himself, became a thorough skeptic and remained so for several years. But, finally, by serious inquiry and thought, he came to his better self, became convinced of the great truths of Christianity, and united with the Episcopal church of which he is still a member. He is very reasonable and charitable in his religious views, dislikes bigotry, and has no taste for distinguishing and dividing "A hair 'twixt south and southwest." In fact he steers clear of ultraism in either church or state, politics or religion. However, though exceedingly genial and sociable, he would hardly do what we once heard of a "Liberal" Unitarian doing, swallow the whole Athanasiau creed "merely 94 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. for the sociability of the thing." Mr. Wendliug is quite fa- miliar with the best religious literature and does not hesitate to give authors like Channing, Clarke, and Martineau credit for having greatly aided him in finding solid ground in Christian faith. In January 1878, by invitation of a number of leading citizens of that city, Mr. Wendling delivered a lecture in Mer- cantile Libraiy Hall, St. Louis. His subject was, "Ingersollism from a Secular Standpoint." It was received with great popu- lar favor. People everywhere were then ready to listen to whatever claimed to take square issue with Mr. Ingersoll's witty and irreverent tirades upon the Bible and Christianity. Mr. Wendling's subject was a happy hit and he at once achieved a national reputation, and yielded to the very large offers made him to enter the the lecture field. In this field he will doubtless remain for years. His anti-Ingersollism lecture was followed by others growing out of that subject. The titles are: (1. ) Beyond; or, is Death the End? (2.) The Evil One; or, the Personality of Satan. ( 3. ) Voltaire ; or, an Evening with a French Infidel. Mr. Wendling has also prepared a lecture on "Hamlet, and his Interpreters," which we have been permitted to 'read. We regard this as a very suggestive and instructive literary production on a theme always interesting to a cultured audience. He has lectured, in all, over a thousand nights in nearly every principal city in the United States, east and west. As we write this sketch we take up the daily paper and read a glowing report of Mr. Wendling's new lecture 011 " 'Stonewall' Jackson" in Tremont Temple, Boston. It is an- nounced by the Lecture Bureau that this young orator has engaged to go at the close of the present season 1886-7 to England where he will lecture fifty nights. The press over the land has teemed with his praise, and the pulpit has welcomed him as its most efficient ally. Leading clergymen have passed high encomiums upon Mr. Wendling as an orator. In- deed, we have feared that his great peril was over much public WALTER C. HEADER. SflELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 95 commendation and too little candid and wise criticism. Never- theless, he has improved from year to year, not only in literary taste and graceful oratory, but, as we are glad to believe, in earnest moral purpose. We are more than ever convinced of this fact after raadiug his lecture entitled "Saul of Tarsus." We remember the saying of the Master about a prophet being without honor in his own country; and we feel ourselves in danger of not fully appreciating those with whom we have long been familiar. But we confess that the reading of this lecture compels us, in our heart, to honor the author more than ever. We quote the following sentences from this lecture: "What was the paramount object of this -man's (Paul's) head and heart? With Whitfield, it was salvation; with John Brown, it was anti-slavery ; with Washington, patriotism ; with Ruskin it was art; with Wilberforce, philantrhopy; with Napoleon, glory; with Shakespeare, poetry; with Columbus, discovery ; with Plato, philosophy ; with Saul of Tarsus it was the Universal Brotherhood of Man. Humanly speaking, the animating idea of Paul's life was the destruction of caste, the sowing of that sort of doctrine which makes Jews and Gentiles equal in the sight of God. Paul was the great Cosmopolitan. Let no man in this land of our=i call himself a Christian who would deny citizenship or fellowship to any human being be- cause of race or color." May George R. Wendling live long to exemplify these principles of brotherhood and citizenship in act as well as in speech, and may we every one clasp hands with him in this high fellowship. WALTER C. HEADEN. He was born November 26, 1851, in Shelby ville, 111., in the old residence building formerly fronting on Main Street but now stand on Broadway, north of the stores of Kleeman & Goldstein. His father, Dr. William Headen, was one of our pioneers, coming to this county before 1830, where he lived until his death in the autumn of 1863. Young Headen's mother, 06 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. the daughter of another pioneer, Joshua Guilford, died iu August, 1853. At a very early age the father started Walter to school in the old Seminary where he attended until his father's death, excepting a short time that he went to B. J. Young and Edwin Davis who taught in the old "Christian" church. After Dr. Headen's death the family was scattered and Walter, then about twelve years old, went to make his home with Hon. S. W. Moulton. He continued regularly in school in Shelby Seminary until the close of the school year in 1868. That fall he went to Normal, Illinois, and went to the High School, remaining a year. In 1869 he returned to Shelbyville, took a clerkship in George Lower's book store where he worked for more than a year. In 1870 he returned to Normal and spent another year in school. In the fall of 1871 he obtained a school near Whitehall, Greene county, this state, and taught that winter. In the spring of 1872 he entered the law office of Moulton & Chafee in Shelbyville. January, 1875, he was ad- mitted to the Bar and at the same time to a partnership with Moulton & Chafee where he still remains in the active practice of his profession, September 6, 1876, he married Miss Virginia Barrett of Shelbyville. For several years he has been a member of the First Baptist church of his native city. August, 1875, he was appointed by Governor Beveridge, Public Administrator for Shelby county, serving until April 26, 1879, when he resigned. In 1876 he was the Republican candidate for State's Attorney of Shelby county, running ahead of his ticket. As early as Feb- ruary, 1873, he was elected treasurer of the Shelby County Agricultural Board which position he has held continuously since. He was City Attorney from January 1879, to May 1881. In 1881 he was the Republican candidate for Mayor. In 1884 he be- came a candidate for Representative in the Legislature from the 33rd Senatorial District composed of the counties of Shelby, Moultrie and Effingham. On account of difficulties growing out of contesting delegations, the nominating convention split; SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 97 two conventions were held; and two Rapublican candidates placed on the track with no possibility of electing but one; this was 011 June 23, 1884; and for more than four months was waged one of the most exciting political contests ever known in this part of the state, resulting in Headen's election over his oppo- nent, Joseph P. Condo, of Effingham county, by a fair ma- jority. This election made Headen one of the participants in the memorable Legislative contest, still fresh in mind, which ended in the election of John A. Logan to the United States Senate. Walter Headen inherits many of the noble qualities of his father and mother. He is a genial companion and an accom- modating neighbor. He possesses rare popular qualities and is a fine public speaker. As an attorney, he is able and honest; and as a citizen he is public spirited, and an earnest advocate of the temperance reform and all measures looking toward human welfare. Mr. Headen is one of the few of his school-mates who remain in Shelbyville. He daily passes the dear old familiar school-house and grounds, in going to and from his business; the old bell, which from its cupola called him in child- hood days so many hundred times from play to study, now swings in the belfry of the Baptist church -the church of his choice almost in his own door-yard,and its ringing must certain- ly serve to bring together in his mind, memories of the past, thoughts of the present and reflections concerning the future. DR. PENWELL AND CHILDREN. Dr. Enos Penwell is the oldest practicing physician in Shelbyville, Illinois. He was born in Abington, Indiana, March 22, 1821; graduated at Indiana Medical College, Laporte, Indiana, in 1848, and came to Illinois in 1853 where he has since resided. He was first married, June 9, 1842, to Miss Martha Hallo- way, of Indiana, by whom he was father to five children, three sons, Frank. George V. and Orville Jerome; and two daughters, Helen M. and Mary E. All these received their first training in books at the old Seminary. They will be remembered as 98 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL." bright, healthy, well behaved boys and girls. All but one are still living. HELEN M., who was married to Mr. William H. Rich, died at her home in Sedalia, Missouri, in 1874. MARY E. is the wife of Arthur E. Launey, a photographer, now doing a thriving business in Savannah, Georgia; and there is their home blessed with little children. FRANK PENWELL, the eldest son, is a practicing attorney and a resident of Danville, Illinois. He is doing a lucrative business, and is blessed with a wife and children. ORVILLE JEROME, the youngest son, (partly named in honor of C. W. Jerome) also resides in Danville. GEORGE V. is engaged in mercantile pursuits and lives in a pleasant home with wife and children at Pana, Christian County, Illinois. George is remarkable for his very successful business methods. He never employs men who drink or gamble, his large business runs smoothly and regularly as clock work and his customers learn to trust and honor him for his strict integrity. Dr. Penwell's first wife died August 8, 1857. On the 9th of December, 1858, the doctor was married to Mrs. Mary D'Pugh, nee Golem an, by whom he is father of two daughters, Pauline and Hilda. These remain with their parents to make home bright. For forty years has this excellent physician practiced the healing art, and for thirty-three years of this time he has lived in Shelby ville ; and, what is most remarkable, Dr. Pen well has in all hies professional career scarcely ever been prevented from answering calls of patients because of his own ill-health. In- heriting a sound body, Dr. Penwell has taken good care of it, and has preserved a sound mind in his body. He has never indulged in the bad habits of drinking, smoking or chewing. He eats to live rather than lives to eat; he maintains a quiet, even temper and a very level head. He has kept his eyes and ears open through life; in other words he is a close observer DR. EJYOS PENWELL. SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 99 and has lived to learn, and does not forget what he has once learned. Although not attempting much riding of late years, he is ever ready to give good and wise advice to those who call at his office. Best of all, by example more than precept, Dr. Enos Penwell has taught people how to use the ounce of pre- vention; his great physicians are pure air, pure water, whole- some food, temperate habits and a good conscience. Long may he live among us to commend by his life these great physicians! It is a real pleasure to present in these pages the familiar face of so old, constant and worthy a friend and patron of the Seminary, and with him also the faces of three of his children who were among the most constant and beloved pupils of that institution. SHORT SKETCHES. Of the teachers not mentioned in these sketches we have failed to get any report. In a note from Mr. Jerome in answer to our enquiries he says : "I regret not to know where some of the teachers have gone; but I shall never forget any of them. You can say for me that they were all faithful and efficient in their work. Their memory is precious to me." JACOB C. MILLER was somewhere in California when last heard from. IONE F. DANIELS when last heard from by the one of whom we inquired was married to an attorney in Chicago and residing in that city, the husband's name not known. Lou M. MASON was married to Capt. ElHngton who kept the hotel of his name in Shelbyville, some years ago. They are now living, we understand, at Mt. Ayr, Iowa. JAMES M. NORTH is now probate judge at Boulder, Colorado, and is spoken of with high esteem by all who know him. Judge North's old pupils and friends in Shelby Seminary have very kind remembrances of him. ANN E. RHOADS (sister of Dr. G. W. Rhoads of Shelby- ville) taught in the Seminary 1857 and 1858. She was married to Mr. William Young about 1862 or 1863 and now resides in Carpenter sville, Putman county, Indiana. 100 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. MATTIE B. SMITH will be remembered as one of the faithful and pleasant teachers in the Seminary, during the year, 1861 and 1862. She was married to Col. George A. Poteet and now lives with her family in Kansas City, Missouri. MAGGIE E. OSBOND (Preceptress) is now the wife of Prof. Albert Stetson, for many years professor in the Northern Illinois State Normal, and her good sister, Miss Mary J. Osbond, resides in Quincy, Michigan. These two sisters were among the most efficient teachers of the Seminary, and their names and faithful services are held in grateful and endearing remem- brance by teachers, pupils and patrons. MINNIE H. GRAHAM, one of the early students and teachers in the Seminary, was married to Mr. J. A. Moudy (an editor) in 1860. Her husband died some years ago and his widow is now the faithful matron of the Orphan's Home, Chicago, Illi- nois; and her daughter is associated with her in this Home and edits a bright little monthly, the Home Visitor. All that knew her have happy recollections of "Minnie Graham." C. B. (better known as Burkey) MYERS will be pleasantly remembered especially by those of us who were associated with him in the Old Seminary days. He always wore a good natured smile and had a happy greeting for everybody. After leaving the Seminary Mr. Myers attended Wabash College at Craw- fordsville, Indiana, for a year. He was married to Miss Mattie L. Lytle, of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1858, and soon after estab- lished himself as Dental Surgeon in Hillsboro, Illinois, where he built up a lucrative business and made a pleasant home for his family until 1866, when he passed to that better country leaving behind the wife, one son and two daughters who are living to this day. DR. WILLIAM HEADEN was one of the earliest and most ho n- ored physicians of Shelby ville and a generous patron and friend of the old Seminary. His home was near the Seminary, and was ever open with a hospitable welcome to the students and teach- ers and their friends. His pleasant family of sou and daughters GEORGE V. P EX WELL. SBELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 101 were educated largely within its walls. One daughter, Miss Anna Headen, who was a teacher in the institution from 1866 to 1869, is now the wife of Hon. William Chew, and devoted to the interests of her home and kindly service to all about her. Mrs. Chew deserves a prominent place on these pages, as she holds a high place in the esteem of her old pupils and friends. Two of the sisters whom we all knew so well in early school days, namely, "Nannie," now Mrs. Robert E. Guilford, and "Ella," now Mrs. Chas. S. Woodward live near the old homestead, fondly given to their homes and family, and ready to do kind deeds to all about them. Dr. Headen's son, Walter, is noticed on another page. Miss THIRRISSA J. TRAVIS was born in Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 1, 1848, and came to Illinois with her parents in 1855. She attended Shelby Seminary in years 1866-67 and was noted for her dilligence as a student and many amiable qualities of mind and heart. She received honorable mention for the part she took in the closing exercises of July 1867. (See page 32.) She was united in marriage with Mr. Thomas J. Graybill about Oc- tober 24, 1872. On Angust 7th, 1873 she passed to that better land sadly missed and mourned by all who knew her. Her memory is fondly cherished by all her old teachers and school- mates. A GLIMPSE AT MOEE THAN ONE HUNDEED WHO EEMAIN NEAR THE OLD SEMINAEY. For dear old acquaintance sake, let us recall as many as we can of all the teachers and pupils that are still here in Shelbyville and vicinity, and perhaps of some that are scattered abroad. Let us turn back to page sixty-six and begin. There are only two that remain of those teachers; but there is one here (Mrs. Thornton) and perhaps others of whom we are not in- formed who taught in the school during Mr. Jerome's absence in the war. Now let us take the list of names of students be- ginning on page sixty-seven: William Amlin drives the pen in the circuit clerks office at the court house; Charles Austin drives a good team about our streets; James Andes does busi- ness at Tower Hill ; Edward Basye travels extensively but ap- pears on our streets frequently; Thomas Blackstone lives near by on a farm; so does good John Barrickman who made an honorable race for county treasurer at last election; Fred Bartscht is a well-to-do farmer; James Cutler keeps a provision store 011 Morgan street, witli his partner Abraham Oliver who is the husband of Mary Oliver, one of the Samiiiary girls. Morris Cottlow will sell you an honest suit at his clothing store, and his little daughter, "Gussie," is a musical wonder of her age. William Chew is at his law office just after the close of an exciting campaign in which he did valiant service for the Temperance Eeform. Wilbur Cook is foreman printer of the Shelby County Leader. Most of the members of the Cramer 104 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. family are here as of yore and down for a copy of this memorial; and so are William and Henry Campbell, two good boys and useful men the latter still painting, and William an invalid, (we are sorry for it) is nevertheless busy in his Variety Store near by the old Seminary grounds. Baalis Davis will take care of your team when you come to town, or supply you with a horse and buggy from his livery and feed stable. Dr. William F. Fleming visits the sick and lends a hand to the Sunday- school when he can spare time from his patients. William Guilford will wait on you at the hardware store during the week and on Sunday he has been the faithful secretary of the Unity Sunday-school for many years. Headen Graham is at his desk in the court house, and knows better how to attend to county official business than almost any other man in Shelby county, the same honest fellow, but sobered by years. He lives with his mother (the dear "Auntie" whom we all know and love, and, by the way, it is from her memory that we have gleaned largely for this memorial) in the same old homestead right by where the old Methodist church used to stand in which the school we commemorate first opened, the homestead from which Headen and his bright sisters "Sarah" and "Mattie" went to school thirty years ago. William Earp is the same peaceful, honest man that he was a boy; and William J. Eddy is one of our most popular practicing physicians. AVillie Hodgson is still here and his good sister "Hannah" how well we remember these two the pleasant and obedient little En- glish boy and girl of the early days of the "Academy" and time has not spoiled them, they are as quiet, modest and dutiful as ever. Tonie Herrick was a little boy in the Seminary and per- haps played sometimes at building houses; but he is now the husband of her who was known as Alice Keeler in school days. They have a family of three playful and polite boys ( "Kitty," the lovely daughter has gone Above ) ; and the husband and father now builds houses or pays for housebuilding in real earnest, no one citizen has done more for Shelbyville in this line. t-1 s H SHELBYVELLE SEMINARY MEMOEIAL. 105 Harrison Hart is one of our best and most steady house car- penters, and James Miller does honest work with brick and mortar, and also represents the First Ward in our city council. Willis and Charles Hall are men of families and will card wool and weave cloth or knit stockings for you by machinery. Eber Harwood has a pleasant family and with his father buys and ships large quantities of hay. Milo Homrighous and Dora Levering are husband and wife and he works in the jewelry store with his father. John Homrighous is also with us. Moses Jackson is a real genius with tools, and is always at his shop to mend or make anything you want, from a jimcrack to a gun- stock or washing machine. John Kellar is busy making hainess while his brother Charles carries on the Abstract business with J. William Lloyd; and Mr. Lloyd is the husband of her who was Mary Kelley and who is now a noble Christian wife and mother and active member of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, with Mrs. Chafee ("Maria Smith") and Mrs. Mouser ("Eliza Bruster") -the home of the latter is now in Dakota, would there were several million of such women. Gottlieb Klauser quietly plods on in the harness shop regularly as the clock ticks. William O. Kelley is foreman in OUR BEST WORDS office, and manages the printing of this book assisted by "Willie" (son of William Oliver of the Seminary) and Robert and George Douthit, nephews of the George Douthit (now in heaven) whose name appears on page thirty- three of this book. Morris Kleemau may be found behind the counter in Kleeman & Goldstein's large dry goods store, he read the President's proclamation at the Union Service on Thanksgiving day, November 25, 1886. The three Lantz brothers are thrifty in their business as tinners and dealers in stoves and household furniture; she that we knew as Eachael Bell is the good wife of William Lantz; Isaac Lantz is the husband of her that used to be "Maggie Cutler," and Charles P. was married to Lizzie Cutler; and they all have comfortable homes with children about them. Charles Laws as a man very 106 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. much resembles the plain, honest school boy that he used to be. Edgar Leach sells lots of boots and shoes, is also a first rate architect, and for amusement can act his part well in a play of home talent, or construct a campaign chanticleer and make it crow lustily. No one in Shelbyville can set type and edit a paper at the same time so well as Elgin Martin who has worked in the Union office with his brother Horace, for many years. Lewis Parker and George Roberts are partners in a large lumber yard and attend strictly to business. Mr. Parker is the husband of her whom we all knew at school as Mary Roberts (daughter of Burrel Roberts, for many years our good county clerk) and her sister Laura is now Mrs. Henry Shade, while the other sister, "Mattie," lives with her widowed mother to make home happy and scatter kind words wherever she goes. Christie Ballet the trusty boy is now the steady, manly clerk in the old Bank of Win. F. Thornton & Son, and the wife that greets him at home is she whose name is down in the Seminary Catalogue, as Mary Trower, the accomplished daughter of William A. Trower, the editor of the Shelby County Leader. James Bivins is trying to do his duty as constable; Joseph Bivins is not on earth any more, but his daughter, Hattie, is here a very successful teacher of music. Andrew Pollard is the true gentleman in his jewelry store that we might expect him to be who was the well behaved boy; and Henry Parish will deal with you fairly every time in the clothing store of which he is principal salesman. David Sheely (we used to call him Ansou) became the husband of Ann E. Bivins whom schoolmates and teachers remember pleasantly; David makes a living for his family at the carpenter's bench. George Terry has a .wife with three sons and one daughter in his home; he keeps a clothing store, and is also a clever auctioneer. And George Wendling what shall we say more of him? except to remark that we are all glad that his home is with us. By the way, that contribution of George's on page eighty-two shows legal as well as literary genius, for, considering the SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. 107 subject, it required great genius to make out so plausible a case, in our humble opinion. Charles S. Woo 1 ward became the husband of Ella Headen, and they are happy in their home surrounded by their children to this day; and Charles assists his father at the mill. Charles and Thomas Worley are here, the former at work in a hardware store and setting pumps and the latter as foreman in the Democrat printing office. Charles and Leverett Webster made two of the best post-masters Shelby ville ever had; they now help their father in the mercantile business. Alice Wright is now Mrs. John Kinnee, strange that her name with a few others of the old students is omitted in the list furnished us; but now it is down, and she is well remembered. Mollie Bayse how well we all remember her, and with pleasant thoughts, too became the wife of Mr. Walker of Texas. She is now somewhat afflicted in body, but blessed with her two children and surrounded by relatives and friends near the spot of her birth. Jennie Barrett is now Mrs. Walter Headen with a happy family. Lena Dagan has become the good wife of Edward Rompf. Helen and Anna Frazier still live neighborly women as they were kind hearted girls Helen being married to Alex. Dill and has a large family of children, lone Gregory is the same "lone," unselfish as ever, happy in forgetting self and serving others and seemingly as young as twenty years ago. She lives in the old homestead with her noble mother. Minnie Garis lives with her sister (Mrs. Cochran), gives lessons in music and has been a faith- ful organist at the Unitarian church for several years. Maggie Harrison (Sutton) that was once so full of innocent glee is now a quiet matronly woman, always at her post in her millinery shop. Annie Harding as Mrs. Taylor Coffman is the mother of a beautiful family of children, and is the same true lady as she was a girl at school. Kind hearted and courteous Lucy E. Jones is known to-day as Mrs. Walton, a widow with a son and daughter grown; she is a devoted Christian looking to that Better Country whither so many that she loved have gone ; her 108 SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMORIAL. brother Nelson how well we remember his declaiming Scott's "Brave Lochinvar" went on before, years ago. Viola Keeler is now teacher in our puplic schools. Who of the early days of the Seminary does not remember Emma L. McMorris? She is uow the widow Craig with a cosey home near her father and is blessed with the presence of dutiful sons. "Demmie" Parish the faithful helper of Charles and Lydia Scovil, is now Mrs, Philo Parker, and "Pedie," the other sister, now Mrs. Gus. Pfeiffer, of Orange, California, has just departed for her home after a welcome visit with Shelbyville friends. Helen and Laura Kutherford will be pleasantfy remembered, only one of these has changed name; Laura is now Mrs. Hedges. Yes, Rie N. (Mrs. Chafee) and Kate H. Smith (Mrs. Thornton) are with us, a blessing to the community. Who in Shelbyville has not taken music lessons of Mrs. Chafee or from some of her pupils? Why this very day, December First, 1886, she is training a class of little ones in voice culture within those same old Seminary walls. Mattie Stewart is the good wife of our present city Mayor, David Marks; and Thomas Stewart, who was the talented young editor of the Greenback Herald was Mrs. Marks' brother; his name should be marked with a star peace to his ashes. Carlie Sears is now Mrs. Hibbard whose husband is a railroad official; and Mary Sittler is Mrs. Fear whose husband (Absalom) is one of the best salesmen in the country. Lizzie Tackett, the seemingly frail little girl twenty years or more ago, is now Mrs. Ed. Hopkins ( whose husband is one of our best druggists) and the mother of a bright daughter, Georgie, who reminds us very much of the "Lizzie" of Seminary times. Alice Scovil became the wife of Jacob Andes, and Clara, of Dr. Frank P. Bivins, both have pleasant homes and are living to make the world better and happier. Mary Stewardson has be- come Mrs. Andrew Ensminger. She was a good and quiet sensible girl and is the same as a woman, faithful to all her trusts. Mollie Parker is now Mrs. Isenberg surrounded with hosts of friends. Margery Oliver is one whom Father Time SHELBYVILLE SEMINARY MEMOIUAL. 109