TIP #496 BETHEL COLLEGE IN LOGAN CO KY Today I would like to take a look at Bethel College found in Logan Co. The following information is thanks to Mr. Coffman, as cited at the end of the article. The school began as Bethel High School 3 Jan 1854 with 25 students. Rev. Benjamin Turner Blewitt was the principal and faculty members included George L. Hayes, Spencer C Long, Frederick B Downs, A Maasberg, H H Skinner and Colby A Smith. The school was authorized originally by the Bethel Association of Baptist Churches in Hopkinsville KY in 1849. On the 6th of March 1856, the school was chartered as a college and opened for its first session in September 1856. B. T. Blewitt became president of the college and continued until 1861. The school closed then for two years due to the Civil War. In 1863, Bethel College re-opened with George Hunt, President. From 1921 through the school's closing in 1933 it was a junior college and became co-educational in 1928. The school never housed more than 200-300 students and its students came not only from Kentucky but from Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas among others. The Students Army Training Corps (and later the Reserve Officers Training Corps) was stationed at the college from 1918-1921. Presidents of the college included: Benjamin T. Blewitt 1856-1861; George Hunt, 1863-1864; J. W. Ruse, 18864-1868; Noah K. Davis, 1868-1973; Leslie Waggener, 1873-1883; James H. Fuqua (Chairman of the Faculty), 1883-1887; William S. Ryland, 1887-1898; E. S. Alderman, 1898-1902; James H. Fuqua (Chairman of the Faculty), 1902-1903; William Henry Harrison, 1903-1907; James D. Garner, 1907-1909; Floran D. Perkins, 1909-1913; H. G. Brownell, 1913-1917; R. H. Tandy, 1917-1918; George Franklin Dasher, 1918-1924; William C. James, 1924-1928; O. W. Yaes, 1928-1931 and Frank M. Masters,1931-1933. Faculty members over the years included: Augustus Maasberg, James H. Fuqua, Charles P. Shields, J. R. Eaton, Professor Ferguson, E. N. Dicken, T. W. Tobey, Leslie Waggener, Noah K. Davis, Phil A. Poynter, J. D. Coleman, R. E. Binford, Aaron F. Williams, B.J. Dunn, Professor Marshall, J. H. Coblin, G. F. Bagby, J. H. Gray, G. O. Schub, H. H. Skinner, C. D. Lawrence, W. S. Parker, C. M. Furman, E. E. DeCou, T. B. Downes, H. H. Lumis, N. Robinson, E. M. Murch, J. W. Rust, T. E. Hart, C. J. Norwood, W. S. Ryland, J.L. Beeson, W. B. Wilson, J. L.Dagg, J. K. Garnett, W. J. McGlothlin, Samuel Baker, B. T. Blewitt, S. M. Provence, W. W. Gardner, J. H. Damm, J. L. Lake, J. P. Fruit, W. E. Fararar, H.L. Trimble, Sidney E. Bradshaw, F. D. Perkins, Charles Massie Long, John C. C. Dunford, D.L.Holmes, E. M. Murphy, Professor Hubbard, Charles Anderson, W. G. Welborn, O. W. Yates, Chesterfield Turner, George F.Dasher, F.L.Hardy, W. P. Meroney, Professor Von Eschen, James William Taylor, Henry Clay Taylor, R. A. Jones, P. A. Moore, J. A. Garrett, A. B. Hollinsworth, D. J. Wright, H. L. Green, Ralph B. Finney, Mrs. Mary A. Tanner, W. M. Baker, C. L. Pell, L. A. Saners, J. V. Cook, T. C. McGee, W. W. Landrum, F. E. Steinhauser, Homer Felts. Graduates of the college: 1857: Thomas Corwin Mulligan, Charles Patrick Shields 1858: Robert Emmett Atkinson, Clayton Francis Becker, Henry Clay Ewing, James Henry Fuqua, Virgil Alonzo Garnett, John William Gillum, Chesterfield Wilcox Harper, Lyman McComb, George William Owens, David Crawford Walker, Needham Lewis Whitfield, Robert Christian Whitfield. 1860: Leslie Waggener, John Boisseau Williams, Presley Leland Morehad 1861: William A. Arnold, James Ambrose Bourne, John H. Caldwell, Thomas R. Erwin, Samuel Jechonias Lowry 1865: Sylvanus Todd Lowry, Frank W. Stone 1866: Thomas S. Gardner, Ernest J. Norton 1868: James Samuel Johnson, Gabriel L. Slaughter, James Ross Waggener 1870: William Monterey Burr, Richardson E. Johns, Vernon K. Witt 1871: Madison E. Aldderson, Bolling James Dunn, William A. Forbes, Richard Dawson Peay 1872: Wilbur Fisk Barclay, John Leadley Dagg, Jonathan N Luce, Benjamin Franklin Page 1874: James William Clark, Dudley Fletcher Howell 1875:Edward Curtis Faulkner, John Thomas Jenkins, Daniel Chase McGregor, William Andrew Peay Jesse Thomas Shannon, John Milo Walters 1876: John Tyler Christian, John Hamilton Coblin, Thomas Mitchell Jackson, Alfred Franklin Pearson, James Coleman Vick, Ananias Madison Williams 1877: Samuel L Frogge,Charles Compton Hill, Charles Robert Stevens 1878: Charles Phelps Fruit, John King Garnett, William Oscar Haynes, William Wirt Lacy, John Jay Shepard 1879: Isaac Netwon Bishop, William Robert Briscoe, Frank Lovelace, Thomas Eberle Tiller 1800: Frederick Hugh Bagby, Stephen Mack Barger, Hugh Barclay Caldwell, John Fielding Clardy, William Theophilus Cox, William Bassett Dobbs, Samuel Frauenthal 1881: William Scott Doyel, John O Rust, Robert Young Thomas 1882:John W McCulloch, Charles Bryan Weller 1883: James DeWilton Hopewell, Robert Lee Jordan, Frank Eugene Lewis, Steven Gano Long, James Edward Rizer 1884: Harry Ashby Bagby, William D. Butler, Orlando Rhea Byrne, John Mebane Burnett, Thomas Dudley Evans. 1885: Jerome Rollin Baer, William Rice Burr, Jesse Lobban Coles, Thomas Atwell Frazer, Eben Gray Vick 1886: John N Flowers, Walter Eugene Leigh, Herman Morris, Perry Bird Miller, Eli Jackson Matlock, James N Robinson, Selden Y Trimble 1887: Gilbert Dobbs, William Edward Garth, Henry Leland Trimble, Thomas Malcom White 1888: Eugene Philip Conn, Charles Edward Dicken, William F Flowers, Jonathan Samuel Hooker, Nimrod Long 1889: Robert N Barrett, Benjamin Lee Kelly, Samuel W McComb, William Joseph McGlothlin, Minor Morton, George Prentice Thomas 1890: Philip Cook Andrews, Weston Bruner, Benjamin A Copas, Sugg Henry Fort, John Davis Jordan, Ellis Jasper Maddox, Harvey Boyce Taylor 1891: Sidney Ernest Bradshaw, Walter Miles Browning, James Henry Fuguaa, Jr, Edward Samuels Low, Henry Miller, William Champion Pierce, John Bass Shelton, Orioin Turbin Sutton 1892: Leon DeBernard Blythe, Andrew Jackson Brewer, Marion Castner Browder, John Simon Cheek, Walton Thompson Conn, Theodore N Compton, Dudley Jeffries McComb, Edward Tyler Moberly, James Duff G Morton, Gayle Moseley, David Rhodin Murphey, Wesley Vick Perry, Robert K Ryland, Alferd A Taylor, Calvin Jackson Webb, Hal Benjamin Whitaker 1893: Saxe Dabney Averitt, Claude S Bradshaw, Samuel James Buquo, Richard W Davis, John W T Givens, Posey Beeler Grant, William J Lanier, Robert Newton Lloyd, Henry P McElrath, Jams C Mobley, Horace N Spooner 1894: Walter H. Brengle, George J Burnett, Henry Wirt Edwards, Ferdinand M Humphries, William Bell Kendall, Isaac Lee Levy, John W Mahan, Eugene M Murphey, William G Welborn 1895: William Adams, William Walter Agney, E Burrow, Homer Felts, Zorobabel Ferrell, William James Garnett, Henry Alexis Hopkins, William Robert Long, Robert Ferguson McCuddy, Perty Taylor, Thomas David Watkins. 1896: John Bryan Benton, Augustus Bogard, Dan Henry Breedlove, Arthur Newton Couch, Joseph Gish Donaldson, Charles Vernon Edwards, James Samuel Flowers, Jr, Walter Everett Gotcher, Joseph Richard Grogan, Benjamin Franklin Hampton, Rufus Erasmus Holder, James Andrew Howell, Arthur D.Knott, Edwgar Dowden Maddox, Richard Beauchamp Marshall, Alfred Thomas Newman, Ulysses Abraham Ransom, Owen Rice, Thomas Joyce Ryland, James Leland Tabb. After 1897, the list is incomplete. 1908: John Henry Moore, Hal Walters Moseley, Richard Hubert Perry 1910: Edward Feland Coffman, Claude Judson Hunt, Eugene Morrison Nourse 1911: William Neal Beauchamp, Jack Dalton Bronaugh, John Verser Conner Jr, George Edwin Gough, George Andrew Johnson, John Edwin Katterjohn 1919: J. C. Pitt, B H Duncan, James T Lewis, John Price 1920: George Thomas Clark Jr, Harry M Crain Jr. Source: The Story of Logan County by Edward Coffman, 1962 with thanks. (c) Copyright Sandra K. Gorin (format), 1 July 2004. Colonel Sandi Gorin SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html Gorin Publishing: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/