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Early history of the John Tarleton College, 1896-1898 /

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"In this book I have endeavored to identify, collect, evaluate, weigh, and interpret the evidence in all documents created during 1895-1899 pertinent to the year The John Tarleton College was founded, the identity of its first President, and its early years from 1896-1898"--Page xlv

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larson, Eric M. (Eric Martin) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Takoma Park, Maryland : Privately published by the author, [2019]
Edition:Second revised edition.
Subjects:
Tarleton State College > History.
Tarleton State College.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Early history of Stephenville College and the John Tarleton College : a brief chronology
  • Economic development and higher education : Stephenville College, 1893-1895
  • The life, death and last will and testament of John Tarleton, and its implications
  • Tarleton estate trustees found the John Tarleton College March 12, 1896
  • Activities and student records at the John Tarleton College, 1896-1898
  • 1898 : a year of turmoil at the John Tarleton College. January 1898 : trustees "locate and establish" the John Tarleton College and a local Board of Directors in Stephenville ; February 1898 : trustees Culberson and Carlisle decline to ratify the election of Marshall McIlhany by the local Board of Directors for an additional term as President of the John Tarleton College ; March 1898 : trustees Culberson and Carlisle elect William Herschel Bruce the second President of the John Tarleton College, in violation of Texas law ; April 1898 : trustee King files lawsuit to dissolve the Board of Trustees ; May-August 1898 : discussions about a Fall term at the John Tarleton College ; September-December 1898 : resolution of King lawsuit and related issues
  • How and why a Texas myth - that the John Tarleton College was founded in 1899 and its first President was William Herschel Bruce - was established and perpetuated
  • Appendices. Marshall McIlhany, first President of the John Tarleton College, 1896-1898 ; Thomas Benton King, Erath County Judge, 1894-1898 ; Eugene Beauregard Moore, editor of The Stephenville Empire, 1892-1905 ; True copy of the last will and testament of John Tarleton, May 29, 1895 ; Funeral cards for John Tarleton ; True copy of lawsuit by trustee King to dissolve Board of Trustees, April 7, 1898 ; True copy of undated motion by trustees Culberson and Carlisle to abate lawsuit ; True copy of amended lawsuit by trustee King, May 17, 1898 ; Transcriptions of articles about management of the John Tarleton College and related issues published in The Stephenville Empire during 1898
  • Index
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Letters in the Texas State Archives and Library Commission
  • Image of editorial titled "Warning to Mothers," The Stephenville Empire, June 24, 1910
  • A hat tip to Walt Whitman and "a backward glance o'er travel'd roads"
  • About the author
  • Image of signature page, "As Free as Thought: a History of The Stephenville Empire from 1871 to 1917," M.A. thesis, December 1976, The University of Texas at Austin