Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which will be of interest to every citizen of the United States. Accompanying the communication is a catalogue of about four hundred relics of President Jackson now in the option of the Hermitage Association, and a letter from Governor Taylor of Tennessee commending the work of the society. Nashville. Tenn...
Adelbert. 22,800 U. of Tenn...
...late George Peabody left a sum of $3,500,000 for the promotion of popular education in the South. The most fruitful result of this generous gift is the Peabody Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn. As early as 1873 the trustees of the Peabody fund decided to establish a normal college in the South. Application was made to the Tennessee Legislature to charter such an institution, the trustees promising to contribute liberally to its support. In 1875 the bill was passed and in December of the same year the college opened with Dr. E. S. Stearns as President...
Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., has conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Senator Leland Stanford...
...Grant Memorial University, of Athens, Tenn., will observe General Grant's birthday, April 27th, with appropriate ceremonies. President Spence will preside. Judge Rea, of Minnesota, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Repulic, will deliver the oration. The University was founded in 1867, General Grant contributing the first cash donation. It has turned out over a thousand preachers and teachers, and owns property valued...