Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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Historical Sketch D( RI X 1 the first «111«ii i • i of tlu- Iasi century the Baptists of South Carolina ent miiiic . i‘ ?heir ministerial students to the Academy on the High Mills of Santee, where the Principal, Dr. J. .M. Rolicrfs, received a part, if not all, of them free of tuition. In 1 27 the Baptist State Convention opened the Furman Aeadomy and Theological Institution a: Edgefield, buildings and land having been conditionally offered by the citizens of the village. The magnetic influence of Basil Manly. Sr., then a young man and pastor of the village elmreh. and a desire on the part of the Convention to secure the cooperation of Georgia Baptists, can seal the school l he located not far from the Savannah River. After an experiment of less than two years, with Dr. Joseph Warne as Principal, the Convention decided to abandon the classical department, surrender the property to the donors and remove the beneficiaries to the High Hills of Santee, in Sumter County. As the school grew. Prof. Samuel Furman was added to the touching force. The last four years at the High Hills, 1 s:'JO-1S. U, was »lie period when it was attempted t . npjiort tin school by means of scholarships. A suspension of two veins, is:}. ,- |$:}C , followed tile failure of this method of supjtorting the Faculty. Efforts were resumed on the first Monday in February, 1837, when a .Manual Labor Classical School wa opcimd near Winnshoroitgh. under the Prineipalship of Prof. W. F. Bailey, luit its bright prosj octs ln-gan to wane in the following May, when the building was burned. In IS3S the Theological Department wa resumed under Dr. W. Hooper as President. Dr. J. L. Reynolds succeeded him in |s4o. and in 1842 Rev. J. S. Mims became Junior Professor and Teacher of Systematic Theology. Dr. J. C. Furman succeeded Dr. Reynolds in 1 44, and Rev. Peter (Edwards was made teacher of Hebrew and Biblical Exegesis the following year. The celebrated trio were hardly in their chairs before a removal to Greenville and the enlargement of the school began to lx a general topic. In 18-18 Dr. Furman was released from the duties 15