Donaldson Academy
Donaldson Academy (1832 - ?) in Fayetteville, North Carolina was incorporated in 1833 by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly.[1][2]
Elijah Frink Rockwell taught at the school.[3]
History
[edit]The school was planned at Hay Mount, North Carolina near Fayetteville.[4] Manual labor was dropped after its second year.[5]
Simeon Colton served as its principal.[6] During that period, he was tried for heresy before the Presbyterian over his teachings about marrying the sisters wives who died. Students attended the trial.[7]
Alumni
[edit]- Charles Manly Stedman[3][8]
- James Cameron MacRad, judge, law professor, and author[9]
Donaldson Military Academy
[edit]- Clement Read Strudwick (1900–1958), artist[3]
References
[edit]- ^ An Act to Incorporate the Donaldson Academy, and Manual Labor School in the Town of Fayetteville, 1832-1833 - Chapter XL, Acts Passed by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina 1832-1833, pages 42-4.
- ^ Coon, Charles Lee (1908). "The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina: A Documentary History, 1790-1840".
- ^ a b c Powell, William S. (9 November 2000). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 5, P-S. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807867006.
- ^ Russell, William; Woodbridge, William Channing; Hubbard, Fordyce Mitchell (1833). "American Annals of Education".
- ^ "The High School Journal". 1920.
- ^ Meriwether, Colyer (1889). "History of Higher Education in South Carolina: With a Sketch of the Free School System".
- ^ "Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years". 1898.
- ^ "North Carolina Manual". 1921.
- ^ "The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History". 1907.