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

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BOTH 1' Dzed 1840 18.97 efzry azrrzlfon Culver R. CULVER, founder of the Culver Military Academy, was born August 9, 1840, at London, Madison County, Ohio. Mr. Culver was born of poor parents, and was left to shift for himself at the early age of fifteen, but, by the age of forty, through hard and earnest work, he acquired aconsiderable fortune. He was an idealist and aphilan- thropist, as wcll as an accomplished business man. In 1881 Mr. Culver had a light stroke of paralysis and retired from active business. In 1893, after two years of travel in the Southwest, he acquired some three hundred and sixty acres on Lake Maxinkuckee and there made his residence. In 1894' he began this great institution by opening the session of the Culver Military Academy with an enrollment of twenty-five cadets. Mr. Culver died on September 26, 1897, leaving hehind him the foundation of one of the greatest institutions in the world. 9 19 -9 The Board of Trzz.rfee.r Mus. li. J. flllI,Vl'1ll Mus. lim CllI.Vl-II! WlN'1'l-:lznl'lJ'r1: Mn. K. K. CULVER Mus. M. 'l'. KZIYLVIZII Mn. lil. lt.. Cunvmx Bum.-GRN. L. R. GIGXILLIAT Mn. B. li. C'Ul.Vl-Ill, New llwr'r'u.w'rl.' Mn. ll. ll. Curvi-:n, Mn. ll. ll. CUI.vlc1z, JR., and Mn. Al.icxANmm F. FI.m-rr 1'1I!lfl 7

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I I1 .', fi . Hx ' ,.., 'Q x l A ' -Lu.-Q 4 Chateau Thierry Barraek A-rgomze Barmclos g Pest, Present and Future . . - ' - '- .Mi-first 9. . d t' d of Culver we must look hack low ,. V X O V1HOEOUG,HIdili1g'?aik2nu1pnthIeSliiijeld? her founder. Henry Harrison Culver 'wus 184'0,.W ere re . . - B .cat efforts and overcoming ireincmious v M dison Count Ohio. y gl , . . , hal? 3615011130256 imm povertyyioa riches, and became a prominent man in affairs, 0 S a , l dthe hi hest ideals and after he had won his riches his thoughts were put sdivagdlllltid lidiiddingdof an inititution wliicb would give young .men that 3-clixiaitiaixlxx' had been unfortunately denied. So in 1894 his -ideas took a definite slam . .111 F'-i Qt ' 1893 Mr. Culver had acquired a residence on Lake Maxmkuckee, and 'chad peiftiur ia wonderful location it afforded for his great idea, and in September, ltxl-t. the in-st slssioxilo the Culver Military'Academy took place with an enrollment of txvenly-1ivc cadets. ii February 24, 1895, the hotel which was being used as a temporary quarters for the cadets. burned down and gave a new impetus to Mr. Culver's idea. In less than tln-vc months the iirst corner-stone of the new barracks, now commonly known as Main. minus the fourth iloor and annex, was laid. In the fall of the same year Main Barracks was completed and the school started again, with an enrollment of thirty-live. In 1896 the Missouri Military Academy had been completely destroyed by fire. This event gave another idea to' Mr. Culver, and he expressed his earnest desire to have the two schools unite at Culver, -which was graciously accepted, and in early October Colonel Fleet and his staff, with seventy- two cadets, arrived at Culver. The two cadet corps Egret put under the command of Colonel Alexander ee . The year of 1897 stands out in Culver's history for two great reasons: 'A 1. Mr. Culver died in the early part of that Yeah leaving behind him the beginnings of a won- derful institution. '2. During that same year a young graduate of V. M. I. came to Culver to take the position as Com- 5. mandant of Cadets. This young gentleman was MaJ0r L' R' Gigniuiat' l'o1rvlrlu'lioi if I 11 iiukrlr :li in During the fifteen years followin 1' tl - I I I 'I' i l I L 1 1 . Q., ll! 811.0111 l,,4il,lm.y 1'r1f1r,' H