Fairmount College
Former names | Fairmount Female College and Fairmount School for Girls |
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| Type | Private college |
| Active | 1872 – 1918 |
| Location | Fairmont and College Streets , , , United States 35°14′29″N 85°49′38″W / 35.24139°N 85.82722°W |
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Fairmount College (1872 – 1917/18), also known as Fairmount Female College and Fairmount School for Girls, was an American private college for female students. It was located at Fairmont[a] and College Streets in Monteagle, Tennessee.[1]
History
[edit]The institution was established in 1872 with the aid of John Moffatt, a Scottish-born temperance preacher and landowner.[2] It was Moffat and business partner Oliver Maybee[3] who convinced Fairmount's first headmistresses, Louise Yerger and Harriet B. Kells,[4] to move their girls' school from Jackson, Mississippi to Tennessee.
Silas McBee, who later gained fame as an author and architect, became the principal of Fairmount College in the late 1800s. McBee turned the school into a church institution that might be "for girls what Sewanee was for young men".[citation needed]
The school ceased operations in 1917/18.[5] In 1921, Reverend William Stirling Claiborne and Dr. Mercer P. Logan founded the DuBose Memorial Church Training School (later, DuBose Conference Center) on the school's former site.[citation needed]
Fairmount College's papers are held in the University Archives and Special Collections of Sewanee: The University of the South.[5]
Student activities
[edit]The school hosted an early chapter of Delta Gamma, a general sorority, and a chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, a now-dormant general sorority.[b]
Notable alumni
[edit]Among its students, in 1910, the school hosted two of the Soong sisters, one of whom later became Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the other, Soong Ching-ling, who married Sun Yat-sen.[6][7]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Anchora of Delta Gamma. Vol. 31. 1914. p. 125. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Manning, Russ (December 1, 2011). 40 Hikes in Tennessee's South Cumberland: The True Story of the Kidnap and Escape of Four Climbers in Central Asia. Mountaineers Books. ISBN 978-1-59485-402-6. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ↑ Partin, Jackie Layne (2008). "The Mabee House in Monteagle" (PDF) – via Squarespace.
- ↑ Bratton, Theodore DuBose (1936). An Apostle of Reality: The Life and Thought of the Reverend William Porcher DuBose, S. T. D., D. C. L. A Series of Lectures on the DuBose Foundation, Delivered at the University of the South. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 85. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- 1 2 "Collection: Fairmount School for Girls Collection". archivesguides.sewanee.edu. Sewanee: The University of the South. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
- ↑ "Southeast Tennessee Tourist Association". Southeast Tourist Tourist Association. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
- ↑ Chitty, Arthur and Elizabeth, Sewanee Sampler, 1978, p. 106, ISBN 0-9627687-7-4