Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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ami Ilia' a normal school ......... lie established I In-icon, Thin proposition was accepted by the couniv, anti tin- Stale by sin I ule. matlc ii The Stale Normal School. ami provided that ii hi....Id eontiiiiie to In- called Marshall Col- lege, and that ii slioultl Is- governed by a Hoard « f Hegents. I'nder Stale control the regents secured an appropriation of alMiut thirty thousand dollars, which was cx|iciidi d in securing ultOUt twelve acres of land ailditional. in eotuplel iag the loiildiiigs erected |»y I lie Sonlliern Methodist . lank log the lirsl building three stories high, and putting a three story wing on the west end. After the city of Huntington was laid out in 1871, the State, by ex-chiiiigng land with the rent ml Laud Company. made the College grounds conform to the stii-ets ami aviums of the city. In I MU', the regents procured the sendees of I’rof. K. S. Thompson, of I’ciinsylvnniu. as principal. Ollier Mi-lions of the State iniiuediately wanted Normal Selmols. rlailoilig that Marshall l'olh-ge was not centrally located, etc. To ucconiiiuNlale these demands State Normal Schools, brandies of Marshall l'oll»-ge. wren established at Fairmont. West l.ils-rlv. Olenville. Shepherdstown. and Com-ord. I’rof. Thompson served until 1871. when he was succeeded by I’rof. I’owe||. of Ashland. Kenluelty. who remained Imt one year, lie was sun-ceded l y I’rof. Morrow, of Hancock Comity, West Virginia. It was at the close of I’rof. Morrow’s first year of sendee that I’rof. J. Ilcauchatup Clnrk. now the 1 istingitislied representative in Congress from Mis- xouri, was chosen as fust assistant. Itut tin- field of |toliiies lia«l a creator cliann for Mr. ('lark than the school room, Iieitrc, In resigned liis place at tin close of his first year. I’riiiri|ial Morrow was sticrr:-d( | by A. IS. Clieslernian. of Kiclimoiitl, Virginia. I’mf. ('Iiistermuii was succeeded hv Prof. Tlmjtton in ISSl; prof. Thnxton by Prof. V. .1. Kenney, of Point Pleasant, in ISSl; Prof. Kenney by Thou. K. Hedges. nf Morgantown. ixsi;. Mr. Iloilges resigned in IWHi to accept the chair of Physics in the State I'liivorsiiy ntnl was succeeded by I.. .1. forbl.v. of Alma. West Virginia, who was called from his graduate work in the Cniversity of Iterlin. (iermanr. RESUME School established as an Academy. |SX7. IhsaiiM a College. IS.'iS. Became State School. ISIJ7. Named in Honor of Chief Justice Marshall of »•“’ I nited States Supreme Court. Value of Buildings, Cronnds and l-h|uipmeiit, $oOO.nuU. Number of Volumes in Library, in.lKiu. Number of Acres in Campus. 1C. Nnmlier nf Alumni since a State School. 707.

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TUK COIJ.ECK AS IT WAS IN IMS—THIRD AVKNIK FRONT.

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VIEW FROM CORNER THIRD AVENUE AND SIXTEENTH STREET II