Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics - Nucleus Yearbook (Battle Creek, MI)

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QLD S534 ' QQ, 5 e scarcit of funds. The contractor met a difficulty-there was a big jump in the Y price of lumber and the unfortunate man had nothing wherewith to raise means to overcome it. Morose, disappointed, in view of his impending and ultimate ' ' h N tl ruin, one morning he was found hanging to the rafters. For some mont s or 1 Lodge knew not the sound of the hammer or rasp of a saw. Could it be this incident that gave rise to the haunted attic ? But sunshine and happiness were not missing. Elder Hussey, as he was known, loved his family and the greatest peace and contentment reigned there. S the class of '22, as other classes, have had our tragedies and sunshine o, we, there ever since the Sanitarium bought the home from Mr. Hussey's daughter, d it for a Cooking School and Club Rooms Mrs. Susan Denam Hussey, and fitte tl e fir t floor and a home for women physicians and teachers on the second on 1. s , Hoor. We know the tragedy of a cake failure and fallen biscuit and hard bread and the sunshine of a perfect gold cake in demonstration and splendid apple jelly in the autumn. We are proud of North Lodge and we love it as it stands, well back, on its broad green lawn among the whispering pines and nodding mock orange and old lilac shrubs. May the incoming classes appreciate it and love it, work in it ' T. M. S -1 and care for it as devotedly! . U'rr N, l d Graves a man prominent in early Michigan History and the writer of the C D Ju se . article on Erastus Hussey's life to be found in the Battle Creek Public Library, Volume XIV, page 79, Michigan Historical Pioneer Collections. ' C25 Erastus Hussey, a pioneer of Battle Creek and prominent in its earliest history. Refer to the above Volume in the Battle Creek Library. CSD Professor Bell brought his family of two daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Eva Bell Giles, Columbia Avenue East, Battle Creek, Michigan, to take treatments at the ' ' ' f B ttl Health Institute. He afterward became one of the most highly esteemed citizens o a e Creek and taught for a long time in the Seventh Day Adventist College. He was the author of a grammar widely used by teachers at that time. We are deeply indebted to Mrs. Giles for the greater portion of this article. Mr. George Murphy -assisted greatly by giving the source of many of the facts concern- ing The Underground Railway. 77

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em ., xi H ax 5 History in Brief of North Lodge The ground was purchased from Judge Graves, 1 whose home was on the site where the Annex now stands, and North Lodge was built in the year 1873, by Erastus Hussey, 2 that strong-minded and close-mouthed individual who so gallantly helped 1,000 slaves to freedom in Canada. Hearsay has it that North Lodge was the scene of these activities and it certainly was disappointing indeed to find that this was not so. However, the site of the College Building was the old home of Mr. Hussey and here he kept the Battle Creek station of the famous Underground Railway. Our North Lodge bears its name in memory of another North Lodge built long before San days. This North Lodge stood on the site of Oxford Cottage on the opposite side of the street from the present North Lodge. It was an old, square, frame building used as a dwelling place. It was in the upper floor of Old North Lodge that Professor Bell 3 started his school, and among his first pupils was our own Doctor Kellogg. It was from Professor Bell that Doctor Kellogg gained many of his ideals and his wish for greater things. What a man Professor Bell must have been! So, in memory of this place, North Lodge was given its name some time ago. Up to that time it was known as the Hussey Cottage. Tragedy did not pass the present North Lodge. It seems that a contract was let, exactly as now, for the erection of the home. A gamble was taken, as always, with a possible rise in lumber, a strike among the carpenters, or a 76

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