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For reasons unknown to us, this school was suspended some years prior to the Civil War, and an act was passed by the West Virginia Legisla- ture in 1866, obtaining new trustees, and otherwise amending the Act of 1847, so as to enable the trustees to sell and otherwise dispose of this school property. The trustees sold this property on Main Street ac- cording to the Act, and put the money on interest until the establish- ment of another High School or Academy in the town. We can ' t say definitely whether this money was ever turned over to the Normal and Classical Academy or the Seminary, but we are under the impression that it was lost by a bad loan. Another attempt to establish an Academy of higher learning was made, by the Presbyterian under Rev. R. Lawson, just prior to the breaking out of the rebellion. This school was to be called the Baxter Institute after Richard Baxter whom Dean Stanley styles the chief of English Protestant school men, and the well known author of, Saints Everlasting Rest. The location of the school was made, and to many it is a very singular coincident, that the site was the white oak grove near the present West Virginia Methodist Episcopal Conference Seminary. The war defeated the intentions of the friends of this proposed institution, and Presbyterian hopes for a High School in Upshur and Buckhannon town were temporarily dissipated. The next effort toward the establishment of a High School in the town was the West Virginia Normal and Classical Academy in the summer of 1880, by a committee sent out by the United Brethren Church to lay before Buckhannon citizens a proposition concerning the location of an institution of learning in the town. The project met with a hearty response — $5,000 were subscribed toward the erection of a suitable building. The Conference of 18S1, approved of the action of its com- mittee and ordered suitable grounds to be purchased at once. This school prospered, and had strong support from the citizens of the town until it was moved away in 1897 to Mason City, and from there to Ravens- wood. The school property which was owned and controlled by the United Brethren Church through its trustees was purchased by the town, after the removal of the Academy, and is now known as the Academy Public School, corner of Kanawha Street and College Avenue. — W. B. Cutright.
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and was a man of much power and considerable eloquence. Yet not so able, tradition tells us, as his wife, Mary, who on one occasion was not satisfied with her husbands exposition of the text, went forward to the pulpit and delivered, says our venerable informer, one of the most able discourses ever heard within the walls of the old church. The first Baptist Church was built in 1824. The first Presbyterian Church was built in 1849. The first United Brethren Church was built in 187 1. The first Methodist Protestant Church was built in 1892. And the first Roman Catholic Church was built in 1891. The first Court House was contracted for in 1851, immediately after the passage of the Act for the formation of the county, and was finished in 1854 — perhaps during the summer of that year, as record informs us that the first court was held in the new Court House in September of that year, with Judge Gideon Draper Camden, of Clarksburg on the bench. A fire destroyed a good portion of this building in 1855, the cause of the fire being a defective flue. From the time of the burning of the Court House to its rebuilding the Court held its sessions first in the Baptist Church on Locust Street, and later in John Maxwell ' s car- penter shop. The rebuilt Court House had under it a deep basement which was fitted up for the country jail, and was thus used until the old Court House was raized by order of the County Court in 1897, and the present magnificent structure built on its site. The first public school near the present town of Buckhannon was taught by Mr. Haddox in 1797. The sons and daugthers of the pioneer settlers of this county were the pupils, and they are all long ago gone. The second school was taught in 1800 by Mr. Samuel Hall whose con- tract with the patrons states that he is to teach reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. These schools were supplanted by the Public Schools. The first High School in the town was established by act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed February 21, 1847, entitled, An Act to Incorporate the Male and Female Academy of Buckhannon, the in- corporators by this act purchased a lot and built a two story school house upon it. This school building stood near where the Episcopal Church now stands on Main Street. The first Principal was J. Wesley Webb.
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Board of Trustees. President J. Wier, A. M., D. D., cx-officio. Term Expires October. 1904 Hon. H. C. McWhorter, President of the Board Charleston, W. Va. 1903 Rev. C. B. Graham, D. D Wheeling, W. Va. 1903 Rev. S. P. Crummett Buckhannon, W. Va. 1903 A. M. Poundstone, Esq Buckhannon, W. Va. 1903 J. C. Bardall, Esq Moundsville, W. Va. 1904 Hon. T. P. Jacobs, A. M New Martinsville, W. Va. 1904 Rev. Asbury Mick Huntington, W. Va. 1904 Robert A. Reger, M. D., Treasurer . Buckhannon, W. Va. 1903 C. W. Archbold, Esq Parkersburg, W. Va. 1904 Ex-Gov. G. W. Atkinson, LL.JD Charleston, W. Va. 1902 John A. Barnes, Esq., Secetary . . . .Weston, W. Va. 1902 J. S. Withers, Esq Glenville, W. Va. 1902 Rev. L. W. Roberts, D. D Oakland, Md. 1902 Rev. D. A. Denton Weston, W. Va. 1904 Bishop Earl Cranston, LL. D Portland, Ore. 1904 Rev. Archibald Moore, D. D Wheeling, W. Va. 1904 Rev. D. L. Ash, D. D Clarksburg, W. Va. Executive Committee. C. B. Graham, A. M. Poundstone, D. A. Denton, President Wier, R. A. Reger
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