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F. R. DAVIS
Sherman Industrial Institute, Huntsville,
Ala.
Prof. F. R. Davis, President
THE Sherman Industrial Institute was or~anized in 1891 " '
and first known as North Huntsville School. Its name
was changed in 1894 in honor of the di tinguished
soldier and patriot, William T. Sherman.
The sehool is located in the cotton belt of North Alabama,
where the colored people are in
great n u m b e r s. Huntsville is a
he a I t h f u I place. With its high
altitude, its mountains urrounding,
its freedom from saloons and other
evil allurements, it is an ideal place
for the location of a school whose
object is to give thorough Christian
training through which may be built
moral character and strong intellect.
The president, after twenty-nine
~'ears of training youth, says, " I am
impressed that the first dutyis to educate
the heart, then head and hand."
The aim of the institute is to give such moral and religious
instruction as shall be a benefit, instead of an injury, to the recipient
and to the community. The endeavor is to Christianize
as well as to educate and train in the indu tries. Children who
are sent to this school are boarded in Christian families.
Propelty value, $7,500. Expenses, $1,440.
In 1908, there were 64 male and 102 female students, ranging
from eight to twenty years of age. There are 2 male and 4 female
Negro teacher. Supported by donations from friends.
Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute,
Frankfort, Ky.
John H. Jackson, A.B., A.M., President
FOUNDED 1886, by act of legislature. State and federal
support only. Property, $150,000. Expenses, $11,000. There
were 122 male and 220 female students in 1908. Average age,
twenty years. Nine male and 6 female Negro teachers.
'(Report and photographs were not receiyf'd until November 13. too late for the
insertion of any pictures.)
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Temperance Industrial and Collegiate
Institute, Claremont, Va.
Rev. John J. SInallwood, Ph.D., President
THE Temperance Industrial ano Collegiate Institute wa,~
founded in 1892 by Rev. J ..T. Smallwood, with" less
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than 10 pupils and less lhan $50 in actual cash." There
were 4 male and 4 female leachcrs. and 61 male and 98 female
students - averaging nineteen and a half 'ycars of age - in
1908. Seventeen of the students - some, fort)' years of agewere
studying for the ministry.
The property valuation is $38,000. The expense, secured by
voluntary contribution and from the school farm, approximates
$15,000. The school owns one hundred and fifty-nine acres.
The president has given thirty years of his life to Negro education
and teaching in the backwoods and rural districts of Virginia
and North Carolina. During his sixteen years at Claremont,
he has arisen at 5.30 A.M., going to the fields to plow at
6.30, where he has worked until 10. From 11 to 3, he has
given himself to direct school work, and then resumed his
labor on the farm until 6 or 8 P.M., returning to his office to be
occupied from then to 12.30 or 1.30 at night. Sometimes he has
not known from whence would come the next meal.
The purpose of the institution is to teach morality, religion,
race pride, industry, economy, social purity, sewing, cooking.
laundering, scientific farming, and carpenlry. The Bible is one
of the text-books. The institute relies upon faith in God.
Seventeen of the graduates are in Africa as teachers and
ministers; 178 are teaching in the South and Southwest; 18 are
practising medicine; 8, practising law; 281 are practical farmers,
from Florida to Marvland and from Vir~inia to Kentuckv
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and Tennessee; 6 are occupied as special music teachers; 12 are
public speakers for the cause of temperance and home buying
among the Negroes; 194 have been married.
State Colored Normal School, Elizabeth City,
N. C.
P. W. Moore, Principal
FOUNDF~]) 1892. Property. $6,000. vesled in the State Board
of Education. The income for expenses, 1907. $-1-.700. Seven
teachers, 324 tudents. Twenty-five counties are represented
in the school. which is ooing an ex('('lIrnl ,,"ork.
