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March 3, 1852
The Board met at 3 o'clock at the house of the President. Present James Hopkins, Charles Henderson, James Barbour, John Coons, Peter Dunn, Waller Bullock. John Montgomery, Robert Johnstone, and Daniel Price being reappointed, and Mr. Aaron Hogue appointed for first time, appeared and were qualified by Mr. Hopkins, Justice of the Peace in Boyle County, administering to them the oath of office.
The Board appointed Mr. Barbour to confer with the Treasurer as to the form of his annual report, and directed the Treasurer to have it printed for the use of the Synod.
The Faculty reported that they were not yet ready to propose any final arrangements for the accommodation of the students in hearing preaching. The Board empowered the local members to expend, if they shall deem it advisable, an amount not exceeding $500 for securing to the students a sufficient number of church pews for their accommodation.
The committee of local members, who had been empowered to purchase residences for the professors, reported that they have purchased two houses at a cost of $3,150 for the two. It was ordered that, as no additional residences are at present needed, the committee be directed to make no additional purchases. Messrs. Henderson and Barbour were directed to rent the houses purchased for the College, and keep them insured.
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The committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Financial Agent reported. Their report was approved and ordered to be recorded on the minutes of the Board. It is as follows. The committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Financial Agent report that they have carefully and thoroughly examined the whole of Mr. John A. Jacobs transactions as agent for the College from November 1, 1842, to the present date. During this period the moneys collected by him, and passed through his hands, amount to about $25,398.08, besides a considerable sum received in notes. For all the various sums received by him at different times, he has accounted by producing satisfactory vouchers in receipts of the Treasurer for cash, notes, and bank stock placed by him in the Treasurer's hands for the use of the College. There are at this time in the hands of the Financial Agent sundry notes uncollected, viz. Fry and Vischer's $118.25; Claude Charles Todd's $118; Rev. W. Jones' $35; Rev. R. Tyler's $10; an unpaid balance of a note on John Taylor; two notes of Rev. W. M. Scott $851.07; Lee's note $1,000; and Dunwiddie's $10. With the exception of his still holding these notes for collection, Mr. Jacobs has balanced his accounts with the College up to this time by paying all that he has collected or held for it up to the present date. In
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examining the multifarious, troublesome, and responsible transactions of your Financial Agent, extending through so long a period as nine years and a half and managed so successfully and faithfully, your committee have been impressed with a feeling of admiration which they feel it due to themselves and the Board to express of the unwearied and patient industry, the ever-active vigilance, and the successful skill with which Mr. Jacobs has continued to labor, year after year, in a work in which his only remuneration has been the consciousness that he was aiding an institution whose object is to do good to man and glorify God.
February 2, 1852, John C. Young, David A. Russell, Committee
The Treasurer and Secretary were appointed a committee to audit annually the accounts of the Financial Agent.
The Board approved of the security offered by the authorities of the town of Danville for the loan of $10,000. The Financial Agent is allowed by the Board to use his own judgment in selling either Kentucky Bank stock or Louisville Bank stock for the purpose of this loan, he advising with the Secretary and Chairman of the Board.
The Board having received Mr. Williams' declination of his appointment, proceeded to appoint Mr. Ormond Beatty to the Chair of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, Rev. Henry Snyder to the Chair of Mathematics, and Mr. James Barbour to the Chair of Belles Lettres, Rhetoric, and Political Economy.
The Professor of Natural Science was allowed the sum of $400 for the present purchase of apparatus, and $100 per annum to be expended hereafter in his department.
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Undergraduates Who Have Studied Professions
List made out August 1844
| Ministry George Moore John D. Dawson Samuel R. Alexander Greenbury D. Murphy Andrew W. Kerr William H. Forsyth N.S. Rice Ben Shaw Peter Fuleinwider William P. Alexander John R. Gorce Stephen F. Cocke William Clark Charles Martin William Robertson David Nelson John A. Meeks Robert Wall C. S. Spilman J. F. Coons D. L. Stuart J. W. Crabb Alexander McKinney Collin McKinney Samuel Stuart W. H. McAulay Edward Cope Henry H. Cambren James Birney W. B. Dysart Ralph Harris George Coons B. Haden A. E. Young B. Lefler |
Ministry B. F. Crawford Samuel Hughes F. J. Boggs A. Martin Rev. Bradshaw Rev. Dysart John Rice |
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| Law James F. Rollins John B. Benuss J. M. Clay William Thompson Francis P. Stone M. Chrisman G. J. Trotter Sherrod Williams J. B. Marshall J. W. Cocke Joseph Holt W. M. Munford W. S. Burch Caleb Wallace Humphrey Marshall Thomas B. Reed A. F. Smith Henry Pope William D. Reed D. F. Kenner J. H. Grimes Richard Cocke Richard A. Buckner James M. Alexander Vivian W. Edwards C. G. Wintersmith Samuel Glover J. T. Boyle James Walter James E. Munford William A. Owsley James J. Moore Speed S. Fry John G. Burch George Grundy William Birney A. H. Edgar |
Law James Hayes James C. Patrick Clifton Prewitt A. Thornton R. Singleton W. Hudson James Clark John Leavy John H. Wilson M. Pindell Caleb Logan W. S. Martin W. F. Barrett D. McCreary A. Robertson S. W. Bullock T. T. Berry William S. Berry Joshua F. Bullitt F. W. Desha J. B. V. McCall Blanton Duncan James Caperton Thomas M. Crutcher U. McCreary |
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| Medicine Alonzo Bast John C. Bast J. M. Boyle Ed. T. Rochester Samuel M. Letcher W. C. Aldridge John K. Kerr Will Warren J. B. Warren Joseph A. Thompson Elias Fisher Samuel Smith Willis Green D. F. Tod C. H. Fry Ben. Helm James M. Reed James Moore D. R. Knox Uriah Bass John R. Weisiger W. A. Downton James Burch James Keith Theodore P. Conn James Foster Thomas Montgomery Paul R. Booker Giles M. Ormond John C. Maxwell S. D. Price Joseph Smith Cotton John Armstrong James B. Duke H. S. Saunders |
Medicine |
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Camillus C. Davis, Lieutenant in the Army
William M. McKee, Captain in the Army
John A. Jacobs, Principal of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
William D. Kerr, Instructor in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Samuel G. Mullins, Professor Bacon College
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Minutes continued
A communication was received from Michael G. Youce on the subject of a debt due to him on the Blackburn house and lot. It was referred to the Financial Committee, viz. the Financial Agent, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and Mr. Barbour to report to the Board at its next meeting.
A proposition was received from David A. Russel to relinquish two scholarships to the College, if the College would release him from the obligation to pay one scholarship note of $500 held by the College and for which he is responsible. The Board declined to accept the proposition.
The Board appointed Rev. John Montgomery and Rev. Robert Johnston a committee to attend the examinations and unite with the committee of visitors in a report to the Synod.
The Board adjourned to meet at 3 o'clock on the Tuesday before the last Thursday in June.
John C. Young, Secretary
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