Wentworth Military Academy - Yearbook (Lexington, MO)

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t B X I N T O N . MISSOURI 19 Dnm PiMun In I ' J ' i:;, Col. V. M. Hoge, for many years connc t«l wall Kemper Mititar ' School, Kiflrncd hia position as Inspector of Accroil- iied Schoote for the University of Missouri, ■mnd was chosen as Associate l perintendent ' imd Principal of the Academy. In 1905. Capt. E. A. Hickman. Isl Cav- •Ity, U. S. Army, a graduate of this Acad- emy, of the Virginia Military Institute, and of the Gov-cmment School for Army Officers at I t l.(. ' ;ucn vorlli. as (k ' tailfd l y tho War Department as Mtlitaiy Insti-uctor. His un- tiring energy, good judgment, and interest in boys, together with his experience as an officer in the I ' nitod States Army, have been a most potciu I ' .n t ' ir m ph u-inK the Academy in the very front ranic of the military schools, of the United Stctea. ' Went worth a PasC of the NatioMl Gmi In 1889 the Acsdemy was made a Post of act, inciviMonis were made for an annual inspctiori bv State Officers and for grant- ing commiHsions, by the Uovernor of the State, to all officers and graduates of the Academy. Excepting the matter of appro- priation?, this establishes the same relations between the Academy and the State as exist between the West PoiiAM!BSSMIItsJU0itKJ and llie I ' nited States. Ww Department Details Army Officer to Wentworth In 1895 the War Dei»rtment of the United States, recognizing the work done by the Academy in its military traininjr. detailed an olficcr Irom the Regular Army aa Pro- fessor of Military Science and Taclii. and eiipplied it with ordnance and ordnance etores. This detail has continued to the present time, and supplies have been in- creaKe i until tlte school is now provided with everythhig neeeeuiy O iiiBit tstA mM- koty 4riUe Tm fiMsiT Cpars or Cmuos at Wkntwortb, Usa

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1» WEN T W Q H T 11 M I L I T A R Y ACAD E M Y BATTLE OF IXXINCTOK, MX«80rKI, .SKfT ;MBKR M . Pbatagnkphad from m ail painting by F. Domioko, a Uungarion exile, wlio made the rtplitiii -ftlitiit iii iMittlfli. The Uniteii States flog Ulea from the roof of what waa then the Masonk CciO ' m uem te-WMld aa mw ot the bundinga of the Central College for Women. Tlui dtak ' it WibUkw i U i- Military Aciuicniy is on the extrema kft of Um picture. In the year 1880 he founded the Went- wortli Male Aciidpniy in lu)tn r of his deceased sou, William Wentwoilh. During the second yean of its history the military feature was ;id(K ' l, the nanie WiLs clui!iue l to the Wentworth Military Academy , and thus was begun the pioneer mititary school of the riilildle west. B. L. Holison, now Professor of ApologatieB in McCormiok Theological Seminary, was«elect«d aatiie first Prindpal. with Saiidford Sellers as his a.v.scK-iate. At the end of the first year Mr. Hobson retired, and, with the exception of one year Colonel Sandford Sellern hsis occupied tiM: IMSttlQa of SuiwriotendeDt eyer .aiofis,. WENTWORTH is a wdl- Imown English name and many prominent men of Europe and America have been its proud possessors. The ancestors of the founder of tbia sehool. Stephen G. Wentworth. came from Eng- land, settlini? in the United States in the early part of the eighteenth century. Mr. Wentwortli, himself, coming West when a boy. settled in Missouri. He was a pros- peroiis liiiriinrss man and rnncluded his loiijif and successful businesii curler i » i ' lx ' ident of the Morrison WimMDittk 8iii ;«t Imt ' ingtOD HiasouxL

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20 1y E N T VV O R TH IJLITAK Y A CAP B M Y The Santa Fe TraU In a strip of country sixty miles wid« and .I5(» miles lonir, embracing the %vindings ol ' the Missouri River ncrtos Ihv State of .Mis- souri, is to be found perhaps the most re- markable ag i ' egation of educational institu- tions in the world, It foHows the old Santa Fe Trail and IWl bWR Sptljr «llNd ' e College Route The reason is not far to sedc During the first half of the Inst ccntur ' the Missouri River was the jfreal artery oi commerce and travel from St. Louis westward. St -amlK at.s carried freight and passengers and deposited them at various landinirB ak ng its turbid rounse. Thence transfiortation by wajjon and liy stage cuach was mjule Inland to county capitals and other towns in contigu- ous territory. Very naturally these towns became the seats of denominatioiial ccdleiges and of the state ' .s educati.« .«IM1 nary establishments. Most of the towns had thefr b arimtfiig t efore the days of steamboats. They were along the pioneer trails tpnriing we. lward from the Mi$uii.s.sippi. Tliey gi-cw with the passinsr years. When the bulldinir of rail- way canie these tnwnh refused t i have the iron road because the slave-owning iKipula- tions thought the railroad would offer easy means for their negroes to run away. There- fore many of those towns are off the trunk linos of railway and liave long auiierc l in- conveniences because of the blind policy oi the forefathers. It b eminently appropriate that the old trails — the Daniel Boone and tiie Santa Fe — should l e rejuvenated and made into one great and continuous highway across tite state, and that these pioneer cen- ters ..f rivii iiiitioD teJhdnd tDgjiihfV ' brt I highway. Tut. Mu ' i 1.1 A I 1 I xiNOTON lit Rbmamcasly Ur.Ai.iTiri.-L AND IT KrvaaDs a Snatfom