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Chapter Xxii Digital Scan by Fay-Wesy.com. All Rights Reserved. CHAPTER XXII. Old Madison college doubtless dates its inception back to 1791, when John Hopwood laid out a plat for a town which he named Woodstock and which is now covered by the present vil- lage of Hopwood, two and a half miles east of Uniontown. Mr. Hopwood was a friend of education and set apart a site in his prospective town for an academy of learning, and also made liberal provisions for the erection and maintenance of the same. That such an academy of learning was established accord- ing to the provisions made by Mr. Hopwood is evidenced by the minutes of the Great Bethel Baptist church, of which Mr. Hopwood was an active member, of July 19, 1794, in which the patronage of the Baptist denomination is recommended. Col. Alexander McClean, Dennis Springer and Joseph Huston were named as trustees of this academy, but by the death of Mr. Hopwood, June 2, 1802, the academy lost its promoter and was - soon reduced to a struggling existence. It was soon apparent that Uniontown would be a more favorable location for the academy than the viliage of Wood- stock, and in a few years after the death of Mr. Hopwood " Union academy " was established on a tract of land purchased by Jonathan Downer from Henry Beeson, June 8, 1793, located oil the east side of Redstone creek. By an article of agreement dated June 13, 1808, Jonathan Downer set apart one acre of the above tract to Zadoc Walker, Christian Tarr and Thomas Meason, trustees of Union academy, and doubtless this academy was in operation before 1807, as John St. Clair was advertised as a professor of languages and mathematics in Union academy March 30, 1807. On July 31, 1794, Henry Beeson conveyed to Rev. Charles Conaway and his associates as trustees of Union District school a tract of land near the Methodist Episcopal church on Peter street, on which a building was erected and in which a school was conducted for some time. These two schools were, doubt- less the forerunners of Union academy which in the course of time became Madison college. By an act of the legislature of Pennsylvania passed Febru- Document is not to be posted on any other Web site but Fay-West.com Digital Scan by Fay-Wesy.com. All Rights Reserved. ary 4,1808, Union academy at Uniontown, Pa., was incorporated, in which provisions were made for the admission of a certain number of poor children of the county to be taught gratis, and the sum of $2,000 was appropriated out of the state treasury towards its establishment. The trustees named were : Rev. James Guthrie, Thomas Hadden, Esq., Presley Carr Lane, James W. Nicholson, Christian Tarr, Charles Porter, Thomas Meason, John Kennedy, Esq., Zadoc Walker, James Allen, Maurice Freeman, Jesse Penell and James Findley. The trustees secured the services of John St. Clair to teach Latin, Greek, etc. ; the term to commence in April, 1808. As time passed interest in Union academy began to wane and, in 1822, a new board of directors was elected, composed of John Kenndey, Esq., Hon. Thomas H. Baird, Thomas Irwin, Esq., Hon. William Nixon, Hon. Charles Porter, John M. Austin, Esq., Joshua Hart, Thomas Hadden, Esq., Rev. James Guthrie, Christian Farr, John B. Trevor, Esq., Nathaniel Ewing, Esq., and Samuel Y. Campbell. ~hesedetermined to revive the academy. The appropriation made by the legislature was in- sufficient to complete the building, and although used for a time, had become badly out of repair by laying unused for some time past, and an effort was begun to raise funds with which to make needed repairs and revive the institution. They advertised for sealed proposals to be received until January 10, 1823, for doing certain carpentering, plastering and glazing on the building. William Thompson, an Englishman, came here from Rom- ney, Va., and opened a school in the academy building with his wife and John Morris as assistants, and the trustees announced that they had placed the institution on a high standing, and recommended it as an institution worthy to be patronized, and ' that Mr. Thompson had been engaged to commence his duties as principal about July 1, 1824, and that the institution is now in a flourishing condition. Mr. ~hompontaught this academy successfully for five years. He was a good scholar and a suc- cessful teacher. He published a small pamphlet of 96 pages while here, in which among other matters, was an account of General Lafayette's visit to Uniontown, including Hon. Albert Gallatin's address of welcome and General Lafayette's reply. The body of the work was composed of the author's own poetic productions, and it is quite evident that the author was well pleased with them. Document is not to be posted on any other Web site but Fay-West.com Digital Scan by Fay-Wesy.com. All Rights Reserved. History of Uniontom, Pennsyhalzia. 485 Moses Hampton succeeded Mr. Thompson as principal of what he called Lafayette college. He taught here two years, during which time he became a student of law under John M. Austin, and was admitted to the bar, March 3, 1829. Mr. Hampton was born in Beaver county, Pa., near Darlington, October 28,1803, and served as an apprentice under his father as a blacksmith by which he paid his way at school. He completed his course at Washington college, and in 1826 he accepted the principalship of Union academy. About 1827, he married Miss Ann, daughter of John Miller, and in 1829, he removed to Somerset county and became associated with Jerry S. Black and Charles Ogle in the practice of law. In 1838 he removed to Pittsburgh where he attained prominence as an attorney and spent the remainder of his life. By an act of the Legislature of March Y, 1827, Madison col- lege was established at Uniontown, Pa., with a charter confer- ring the usual powers, and especially authorizing an additional department of agriculture in which should be taught scientific- ally the art and uses of all and every kind of husbandry. The property belonging to the Union academy was by the same act of assembly vested in the trustees of the college subject to its original uses. The college was named in honor of Dr. James Madison, late bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in Virginia, and president of the college of William and Mary, and one of the commissioners on the part of Virginia who settled the dispute as to the location of the boundary line between that state and Pennsylvania. The names of the trustees as they appeared by the act of incorporation were as follows : Thomas Irwin, John Kennedy, Thornton Fleming, John M. -4ustin, Samuel Evans, Henry Ebert, Nathaniel Ewing,, Robert Skiles, Isaac Beeson, all of Uniontown ; James Barnes of Greene county ; Richard Coulter of Greensburg; Robert Darrah and Abner Lacock of Beaver county ; John Davenport of Burnsville, Ohio ; John C. Wright, David Seaton and George Brown of Steubenville, Ohio; Shad- rach Bostick of Canfield, Ohio; Noah Zane of Wheeling, Va.; Asa Shinn and Samuel Hazlett of Washington, Pa.; Henry D. Sillers, Charles Avery, Charles Cook, Ross Wilkins and John Waterman of Pittsburgh; B. S. Pigman of Cumberland, Md.; George Hogg, Michael Sowers and Isaac Miller of Brownsville ; Hugh C. Todd of Cookstown; Charles McLain and Eugene Wil- son of -Morgantown,Va.; James W. Nicholson of New Geneva; Document is not to be posted on any other Web site but Fay-West.com Digital Scan by Fay-Wesy.com. All Rights Reserved. 486 History of Uniontown, Pennsylz~ania~. Isaac hleason and William Davidson of Connellsville; Edwin S. Duncan of Clarksburg, Va.; John Leech of Mercer, Pa.; Chauncey Forward of Somerset and Isaac Slater of Wapnes- burg, Pa. The annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church which met in Pittsburgh in April, 1827, decided to take Madison college under its care. The first general meeting of the trustees of the college was held the 30th day of June, 1827; and was organized by electing Thomas Irwin, Esq., president ; Samuel Evans, Esq. secretary and Isaac Beeson, treasurer; they then proceeded to the election of the faculty of the college, when the following gentlemen were duly elected to fill the offices at- tached to their names: Rev. H. B. Bascum, principal and pro- fessor of moral science, comprising mental and moral phil- osophy, natural theology, christian ethics and evidences of christianity; Rev. Charles Elliott, professor of languages, and John A. Fielding, professor of mathematics and natural phil- osophy. At a subsequent meeting of the board John Lyon, Esq., was elected professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres, and Hugh Campbell, M. D., professor of chemistry, including agri- culture and botany. Moses Hampton was chosen tutor in the classical department, and John Robertson and R. E. Stokes tutors in the English department. The price of tuition for the college course was fixed at $20 per annum, and it was stated that good boarding could be had at $1.25 per week. The Board of Trustees was very sanguine of the prosperity of the college. and announced that the solemnities of the opening under the new regime would take place September 15, 1SZ. On that day a concourse of the citizens of the town assembled at the Methodist Episcopal church on West Peter street where a pro- cession was formed and proceeded from that place to the cob lege in the following order: kt, Students-candidates for ad- mission; 2nd, Trustees of the college; 3rd, The Faculty; 4th, Music: 5th.
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