ENCatalog of Summer Hill Select School 1878-1880
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Biographical Note: In 1837 the University of San Augustine was chartered by the Republic of Texas. Nominally a state institution, it soon fell under the control of the Presbyterians. This caused some bad feelings among the people of San Augustine and, in 1844, the Methodists, under the leadership of Francis Wilson, established a rival institution, the Wesleyan Male and Female College. Since the town was too small to support two schools, neither thrived, and in 1848, the University of Eastern Texas was established as an attempt to unite both institutions into a state school. This school soon failed due to poor management. In 1850 the Masonic Institute of San Augustine, careful to remain nonsectarian, established a school, divided into Male and Female Departments and utilizing both buildings. This school flourished until the Civil War. (Crocket, George L. Two Centuries in East Texas: A History of San Augustine County and Surrounding Territory, From 1685 to the Present Time. Dallas: The Southwest Press, 1932.)
Collection: Summer Hill Select School;
Associated Dates: 1870-1879;
Date: 1878; 1879; 1880
Description: Biennial Catalogue of Summer Hill Select School, Omen, Texas, 1878-1880
Language: English
Repository Link: http://library.sfasu.edu/etrc/
Location: Smith County; Texas;
Collection Identifier: B1, Box 1, Folder 2
Relation: Masonic Institutes, https://archives.sfasu.edu/repositories/2/resources/84
Repository: East Texas Research Center
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Scope and Content Note: Papers for the University of San Augustine, the Wesleyan Male and Female College, and the University of Eastern Texas are included in this collection; papers for the Masonic Institute are processed separately.
Subject: Education; Universities & colleges; Catalogs;
Title: Catalog of Summer Hill Select School 1878-1880
Type: Publication;
Repository: East Texas Digital Archives
Source: From: Catalog of Summer Hill Select School 1878-1880