Culver Military Academy - Roll Call Yearbook (Culver, IN)

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5, l 2 pe A X rw, . ,B V 5 .11 L 1 I gh Q, , .'-fL.,.l' ..'v1', ,y A , . -. - .. .,,. f, s f ' Zlaisturinzal Tl e Founder' Nlr HenrY Harrison Culver, the founder of the Culv'erKfiliUEY 1 4 . .L' . l - x l 5 ef Ohio August 9, 1640- C born at London Madison County, 7 n 1 I U . Aslitcziafflcfdngufvailf the age of fifteen ,with only a meagre school education to niagltc his way in life Overcoming many obstacles and hardships he became an EICULC and successful man of affairs and left property which placed him high among the millionaire class of his city. He was, however, much more than a business. man. He was an idealist and a philanthropist. 'But to help young men struggling 'CO rise under difficulties, always appealed to lnm most strongly., I ,- Mr. Culver was for many years a tireless worker. He lived with such extra- ordinary calls on his mental and physical activity that in ISSI, following a slight stroke of paralysis, he retired from active business, and after traveling for two years in California and Mexico, took up his residence in 1893 near the shores of Lake Maxinkucke h h ' e, W ere e acquired some three hundred acres of property at the north end of the Lake. Th . C U9 . .r. u ver built a tabernacle, the present trunk room, a hotel and several cottages, for the purpose of having a series of religious meetings. The plan, however, was l1Ot altogether successful and the building remained unoccupied for several years. C In the summer of 188 ' l M 4, eigiteen young men, among whom was our old friend Mr. Braden 3' came to the lalte f l I , ' rom tie Ohio Military Institute for a summer's outing. They enjoyed this stay so much that Mr. Culver immediatelv conceived the idea of starting a permanent boys' school. i The equipment at that time was meagre to say the least, consisting of the two story frame building which had been formerly used for a hotel two bunk houses and the old tabernacle which was used for a gymnasium A fier a Great deal of husthng, however, the first sessio fi I b n started in the fall of IS .Fortv vounff men reported for duty and formed the first C 1 9 h Battalionfl 'The school however had hardly gotten firmly under wa fl u Veg g .K 3 i hotel which was being used as th Y W len a re Complmll' destroyed the frame 6 temporary quarters of ith C d 1 . , e a cts. imnigistgitillitiillstmgtyhxvas telegraphed to Mr. H. H. Culver in St. Louis who C 6 oun V - , - HOW known as the Hculver gOttage:QC3n5OIE1i:C shcipge ofvhisv handsome mansion, P Ei Xery comfortable winter. e beginning of the school' In the year IW Nl C l 1. Light ?fi'i,Zj,i?E?1S:jjf:g'f gf -,gy f W W, ,. . - v-f....s,..s...-..s.,.,.,-.,,.-...,.,..m... K if if L

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l I f 3 t 5 1 5 i i E 4 MR. HENRY HARRISON CULVER ' FOUNDER OF THE CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY A great institution is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.-EMERSON Seven

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