Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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WW1 Q1 S 7 135 fl Y . TI. f O Z YQ 8 .X x - , 7 If C ' 1 T By 1853 ' .l Howard's en- A 1 dowment had reach- 4 ed fifty thousand dollars. '91 1 However, the prosperity of . l 1 li the College was cut short by the il Civil War which sent her president, All l her faculty, and her students marching W1 l l away from their books. Dr. Talbird became ill EQ Colonel Talbird, commanding officer of the Forty-. T First Alabama Regiment. For a while the College buildings were used for hospitalization of wounded Confederate sol- diers, but in 1865 Federal troops tools possession of the school property. One of the dormitories was commandeered for the use of freed slaves. At the end of the war, two professors and one instructor re- opened the doors of the sadly damaged Baptist school. The endowment was gone. The people were impovished, the crops failed, and the students were a mere handful. Dr. J. l.. M. Curry was elected to the office of President. Among the faculty mem- bers through those dark days were the famous Colonel J. T. Murfee, president from 1871 to 1887, Thomas J. Dill and A. D. Smith.

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A .' . Howard students laid down their books and took up arms in the Civil War. f x f l W 551' , .,'.'-- '- -' ' .4 + tl, l,..l?'fft1::if V,,f ' mt. tigiggliztiim rt 3 uf its t ' X, I ,qi f.'t Al 4f4 'T i,:f W ll M Hx , Q, 'tss Q Xl ybgk Q471 REV. H. TALBIRD. President Talbird became Colonel Talbird of the Confederate Army. Registration at Howard at this time was ten dollars. YU lv I ffffflf ff ,ffl-117. f 1 f I ,1 , ,, 44, 6 ffffffly ffl IM ,

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r Q .lv -jj I. By 1870 Howard was on the upgrade again. En- rollment reached an all-time high of one hundred and eighty-four students. The growing hamlet of Bir- mingham soon caught the eye of the leaders of Howard Col lege, and in 1887 the College was removed from Marion to Birmingham. The first buildings on the new campus were two wooden structures, known in tradition as The Barn, ci dormitory and The Mess Hall. The present Old Main was completed in 1891, and four small brick dormitories were completed soon after that. The panic of 1893 was as devastating as another fire. Professors, a few other heroic leaders and friends of the College who had served it in Marion, saved it again in Birmingham. W A