---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:41:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Edwin Broadus <[email protected] Awhile back Judy Arnold raised a question about the Broaddus connected with Alderson-Broaddus College in West Virginia. I had previously sent an e-mail message to a person at the school, and yesterday I received a packet by regular mail. The Broaddus involved was William Francis Ferguson Broaddus. He apparently had nothing to do with the founding of the school other than being an inspiration and encouragement to a minister named E. J. Willis. Willis took over a school in Winchester, Va., called Winchester Institute, and the following year (1873) he renamed it Broaddus Female College, in honor of his friend, Wm. F. Broaddus. Later the school was moved to West Virginia and combined with Alderson Academy and Junior College. Broaddus himself had earlier mainted a boarding school at Middleburg, Virginia (prior to 1840). He opened another one, for women, in Fredericksburg Va., but this closed at the time of the Civil War. He moved then to Charlottesville, returning to Fredericksburg several years later, where he died. Broaddus was born about 1791 and died in September 1876. He was twice married, to Mary Ann Farrow and to Lucy Ann Fleet. His parents were Thomas Broaddus and Susannah Ferguson White. Thomas in turn was the son of William Broaddus and Catherine Gaines. William was the son of Edward Broaddus by his second marriage, to Mary Shipley. There is considerable material about William F. Broaddus in Andrew S. Broaddus' book, "The Broaddus Family." Ed Broadus