Hampden Sydney College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hampden Sydney, VA)

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Ilirirf SLIIIIIIIZIYQ nf ltrzmuus fur Ihr iirstmuul nf thi' Nunnr Islrnahlr Quit npnu GDM I777. I782 I 783 I790 !79Z I 796 I802 I805 uf Ihr ituilhintgsi uf Ilgr Olnllrgr Girnup. 47 '15-2.355 wi Qbjijkj .sag . . . Q3 1775 RESBYTERY thought it expedient to seed e circular to the several members, appointing a Presbytery pro re nala, at Cap- tain Nathaniel Venableis, in the county of Prince Edward, on Wednesday, this first day of February, l775. Being met according to appointment, the Presbytery upon inquiry find that there is above 51300 already subscribed for the establish- ment of a Seminary for the education of youth. On the next day, the Presbytery, after viewing several places shown them by the gentlemen of the past, agreed to build an academy-house, and a dwelling-house for the superintendent, at the head of Hudsonis Branch, in Prince Edward county. Captain Nathaniel Venable and James Venable appointed Trustees of the Academy. Nathaniel Venable, one of the Managers of the Hampden-Sidney Lottery. Samuel W. Venable, appointed a Trustee of Hampden-Sidney Academy. Charter Trustees of Hampden-Sidney CollegefNathaniel Venable, James Vent' able and Samuel W. Venable. Abraham B. Venable, appointed a Trustee. Richard N. Venable, appointed a Trustee. joseph Venable, appointed a Trustee. Richard N. Venable and Samuel W. Venable of Committee to draw up and forward an address to the President of the United States regarding a number of shares in the james River Navigation Company. Richard N. Venable and Samuel W. Venable of Committee to procure to be imported for the use of the College such a Philosophical and Mathematical apparatus as they may judge most suitable at present for the College. Richard N. Venable, appointed to collect the monies lately subscribed to establish a permanent fund for the use of the College, and to invest the same in the stock of the Bank of Virginia. 10

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MSNEER G.W. CLARKE. FITZGERALD BUGG 'A 'V X WOOL PETERS

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1807 1820 1821 1827 1828 1830 1843 1844 1845 1850. 1852 1867 1873. William L. Venable, appointed a Trustee. Richard N. Venable of Committee to draw up and cause to be published a statement of the condition-wants-designs-prospects and public utility ol this Institution. Minutes of the Board of Trustees, on the death of Col. Samuel W. Venablez Hampden-Sidney College has lost one of her firmest supporters, and her Board of Trustees one of its most efficient members. Nathaniel E.. Venable, appointed a Trustee, Richard N. Venable of Committee to prepare a history of the College. Richard N. Venable of Committee to inquire into and report the practicability of purchasing the buildings of the Union Theological Seminary. Charles S. Venable, appointed a member of the Faculty of the College. Nathaniel A. Venable, appointed a Trustee. Mr. N. E. Venable reported that John Lee, LL.D., of Hartwell flfnglandl. had presented to the College a medallion bust of John Hampden, also a marble copy of a monument erected in Chalgrove Field in June, 1843. Professor Charles S. Venable of Committee to draw off a perfect list of the honorary and regular members of the Philanthropic Society. llVlinutes of the Society.l Leave of absence for eighteen months granted to Professor Venable to visit and improve himself at the universities of Europe. Samuel W. Venable, elected a Trustee. Samuel W. Venable of Committee on the endowment fund of SZOQOOO. lrlihese facts, chosen almost at random from the Calendar of Board .Minutes ar very good evidence of what men of the name of Venable were to Hampden-Sidney College during the first century of its career. To enable the College to enter upon the century beginning with the year 1900, Major Richard M. Venable, of Baltimore fa great- grandson of Nathaniel Venable. See Feb. 1. 17753, presented to the Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sidney College a great part of its plant as now existent. Major Venable was a benefactor of the College in other ways. Dr. Bagby, in his sketch published in the KALEIDOSCOPE for 191 1, remarks: ln wiew of the number and variety of his gifts, of their aggregate amount, and of the varied and widely different uses that they subserve, it must be held that Major Venable was the most sympathetic and far-sighted of the friends of Hampden-Sidney College, and the largest contributor to its development in its life of 135 years. l 11