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Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss1/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1 Published by STARS, 1948 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27 [1948], Iss. 1, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss1/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1 The FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume XXVII July 1948-April 1949 PUBLISHED BY THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ST. AUGUSTINE Published by STARS, 1948 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27 [1948], Iss. 1, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss1/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII A RTICLES AND A UTHORS Archaeology in Florida, 89 Bickel, Karl A., Robert E. Lee in Florida, 59 t- Bloxham, William Dunnington: The Years to the Governorship: Ruby Leach Carson, 207 Book Reviews: 83, 202, 409 Bornet, Vaughn D., A Connecticut Yankee Fights at Olustee: Letters from the Front, A Connecticut Yankee after Olustee: Letters from the Front, 237, 385 Boyd, Mark F., Enumeration of the Florida Spanish Missions in 1675, 181 Brookfield, Charles M. and Griswold, Oliver, They All Call it Tropical, reviewed, 411 Campbell, Major-General John, in British West Florida: George C. Osborn, 317 Cantrell, Elizabeth Aultman, When Kissimmee Was Young, reviewed, 202 Carpetbag Imperialism in Florida 1862-1868: George Winston Smith, 99, 260 Carson, Ruby Leach, William Dunnington Bloxham: The Years to the Governorship, 207 Cash, William T., Taylor County History and Civil War Deserters, 28 Connecticut Yankee Fights at Olustee: Letters from the Front; A Connecticut Yankee after Olustee: Letters from the Front: Vaughn D. Bornet, 237, 385 Corbitt, Duvon C., Spanish Relief Policy, 67 Crown Jewel, Fabulous Families of Old Pensacola: Celia Myrover Robinson, reviewed, 410 Dawson, John Charles, Lakanal, the Regicide: A Biographical and Historical Study of the Career of Joseph Lakanal, reviewed, 87 Dodd, William G., Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary now Florida State University, 1, 157 Doherty, Herbert J. Jr., Review of The Whig Party in Georgia, 1825- 1853, 404 Dovell, J. E., Review of Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Ever- glades, 83 Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary now Florida State University: William G. Dodd, 1, 157 Enumeration of the Florida Spanish Missions in 1675: Mark F. Boyd, 181 Florida Historical Society, 94, 204, 311, 412 Florida’s Vanishing Era: Eleanor H. Dean Pearse, reviewed, 410 Founder of the Seminole Nation: Kenneth W. Porter, 362 From Florida Sand to the City Beautiful: E. H. Gore, reviewed, 410 Gore, E. H., From Florida Sand to the City Beautiful, reviewed, 410 Griffin, John W. and Smith, Hale G., Nocoroco, a Timucua Village of 1605, 340; Report on the Goodnow Mound, 89 Grismer, Karl H., The Stay of Fort Myers, reviewed, 409; The Story of St. Petersburg, reviewed, 88 Griswold, Oliver and Brookfield, Charles M., They All Call it Tropical, reviewed, 411 Published by STARS, 1948 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27 [1948], Iss. 1, Art. 1 Hanna, Alfred Jackson, and Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades, reviewed, 83 Hanna, Kathryn Abbey, Florida Land of Change, reviewed, 404 Historical Association of Southern Florida, 91, 308 Independentism: A Challenge to the Florida Democracy of 1884: Ed- _. ward C. Williamson, 131 Jacksonville Historical Society, 91, 309 Klose, Nelson, Dr. Henry Perrine, Tropical Plant Enthusiast, 189 Lakanal, the Regicide: John Charles Dawson, reviewed, 87 Lake Okeechobee: Wellspring of the Everglades: Alfred Jackson Hanna Kathryn Abbey Hanna, reviewed, 83. Lee, Robert E., in Florida: Karl A. Bickel, 59 Local Historical Societies of Florida, 91, 308 Murray, Paul, The Whig Party in Georgia, 1825-1853, reviewed, 404 Nocoroco, a Timucua Village of 1605: John W. Griffin and Hale G. Smith, 340. Osborn, George C., Major-General John Campbell in British West Florida, 317; Review of Lakanal, the Regicide, 87 Pearse, Eleanor H. Dean, Florida’s Vanishing Era, reviewed, 410 Perrine, Dr. Henry, Tropical Plant Enthusiast: Nelson Klose, 189 Porter, Kenneth W., The Founder of the Seminole Nation, 362 Pyburn, Nita Katharine, John Westcott’s Plan for Public Education in Florida, 1844, 300 Robinson, Celia Myrover, Where Romance Flowered, Stories of Old Pensacola! The Crown Jewel, Fabulous Families of Old Pensacola, reviewed, 410 St. Augustine Historical Society, 92, 309 Smith, George Winston, Carpetbag Imperialism in Florida 1862-1868, 99, 260 Smith, Hale G. and Griffin, John W., Nocoroco, a Timucua Village of 1605, 340; Report on the Goodnow Mound, 89 Spanish Relief Policy: Duvon C. Corbitt, 67 Story of Fort Myers: Karl H. Grismer, reviewed, 409 Story of St. Petersburg, Karl H. Grismer, reviewed, 88 Tallahassee Historical Society, 93 Taylor County History and Civil War Deserters: William T. Cash, 28 They All Call it Tropical: Charles M. Brookfield and Oliver Griswold, reviewed, 411 Trapp, Mrs. Harlan, My Pioneer Reminiscences, reviewed 202 Westcott, John, Plan for Public Education in Florida, 1844; Nita Katharine Pyburn, 300 When Kissimee Was Young: Elizabeth Aultman Cantrell, reviewed, Where Romance Flowered, Stories of Old Pensacola: Celia Myrover Robinson, reviewed, 410 The Whig Party in Georgia, 1825-1853: Paul Murray, reviewed, 404 Williamson, Edward C., Independentism: A Challenge to the Florida Democracy of 1884, 131 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss1/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1 Volume XXVII July 1948 Number 1 The FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY CONTENTS Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary now Florida State University William G. Dodd Taylor County History and Civil War Deserters William T. Cash Robert E. Lee in Florida Karl A. Bickel Spanish Relief Policy Duvou C. Corbitt Book Reviews: Hanna and Hanna, “Lake Okeechobee” J. E. Dovell Dawson, “Lakanal, the Regicide” G. C. Osborn Griffin and Smith, “Report on the Goodnow Mound” Local historical societies Jacksonville Historical Society Historical Association of Southern Florida St. Augustine Historical Society Tallahassee Historical Society The Florida Historical Society The drive for new members Accessions to the Library Contributors to this number SUBSCRIPTION FOUR DOLLARS SINGLE COPIES ONE DOLLAR (Copyright, 1948, by the Florida Historical Society. Reentered as second class matter November 21, 1947, at the post office at Tallahassee, Florida, under the Act of August 24, 1912.) Office of publication, Tallahassee, Florida Published quarterly by THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY St. Augustine, Florida Published by STARS, 1948 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27 [1948], Iss. 1, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss1/1 8 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27, Issue 1 EARLY EDUCATION IN TALLAHASSEE AND THE WEST FLORIDA SEMINARY, NOW FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY by WILLIAM G. DODD PART I The school problems of early Tallahassee, after a long process of trial and error, were finally solved by the establishment, on January 1, 1857, of the West Flor- ida Seminary. Though the Seminary was nominally a State institution, actually for many years nearly all of its students were from Tallahassee and vicinity, and it was to all intents and purposes a Tallahassee school. With its location in the town, citizens were at last as- sured of a permanent means of educating their sons, and a little later, their daughters also. Until this fortunate event, Tallahassee, like the other towns of the Territory and the young State, was left to her own resources, never too abundant, in meeting this essential civic obligation. For twenty-five years a succession of private schools and two chartered academies furnished the boys and girls of the community with their only opportunity for schooling, unless parents could afford and preferred the instruction of a tutor or a governess for their children. The private schools were, with hardly an exception, short-lived. The academies were intended to be perman- ent, but only one of them fulfilled its intention. Neverthe- less, as they were the only educational institutions which could make any claim to being sponsored by the com- munity, our interest in Tallahassee schools of the early period finds its center mainly in the two academies. The education provided for the children of Talla- hassee differed in no essential from that of the South in general. The separation of the sexes through all the grades, the public examination at the close of each term, the fixed curriculum, the requisite charge for tuition,- all were typical and obtained, with the necessary changes in individual cases, in all schools, private and corporate, until the middle of the century. Published by STARS, 1948 9 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 27 [1948], Iss. 1, Art. 1 2 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY The course of study comprised the primary and in- termediate subjects, as well as an advanced or so-called collegiate course covering some of our high-school cur- riculum and a good deal in addition to it. Current par- lance designated the pre-collegiate subjects as the “com- mon” or “English” branches, and that part of the pu- pil’s education as a “common school” or, more often, as an “English,” education. Up to this point, the pro- gram of study was identical for boys and girls.