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H' E u G R E N SBORO PATRIOT.
THE QUAKERS OF GUILFORD.
BY MARY MENDENHALL HOBBS.
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GDILFOBB COLLEGE
The Friends came to Guilford
county,.N. C, not as some have sup
posed to escape persecution in the
localities from whence they came, but
because they were seeking " fresh
woods and pastures new," and knew
a good thing: when they found it.
: They came from Pennsylvania
where-there were wide acres many
of which they held deededyby William
Penn himself and where of all
places on the globe they -were facile
primus, and from Nantucket, whose
sons claimed the " boundless main "
as their home and-whose rocky shores
sheltered a few people who did not
fear the oppression of the self
righteous Puritan, r ,
This immigration of Quakers took
place about the same time as the
larger influx of Scotch-Irish into the
central counties of North Carolina,
and is most interestingly described by
Dr. Stephen B. Weeks in his "South
ern Quakers and Slavery."
The Pennsylvania and Nantucket
Quakers mingled and intermarried
with the Scotch-Irish whose whole
modus vivendi was the opposite, of
their own.
Almost all the members of the
denomination at the present day, who
are " birth right " can trace their
descent from one or both of these
sources, and those who congratulate
themselves upon their Nantucket origin
may be interested in the following
doggerel which was supposed tersely
to describe . those same ancestors.
Those who find rather harsh judg
ment -here may console themselves
that long ere this the infusion of
other qualities has eliminated the ill
and strengthened the good.
The Rays and Jlussells coopers are,
The knowing Folgers lazy,"
"A lying Coleman very rare,
And Scarce a learned Hussey,
The Coffins" noisy, fractious, loud,
The silent Gardners plodding, '
The Mitchells good,
The Bakers proud, -
The Macys eat the pudding,
TheLovetts stalwart, brave and
stern, " -
The' Starbucks wild and vain," "
The Quakers steady, mild and calm,
The Swains sea-faring men, '
'And the -jolly Worths go sailing
down the wind. ' '
These were not the first Friends to
come to North. Carolina, and it is like
ly that nenry Phillips who, in 1665,
came, to Albemarle from New Eng
land, was seeking a refuge-from thi
tyranny of Massachusetts where
Friends suffered martyrdom on Boston
Common.
At his home the gospel was first
preached in the infant colony by
Wjlliam Edmondson, of England.
Later George Fox himselfrthe founder
of the denomination visited the little
settlement, and members were added
to the church
These Friends, erected '- the first
place of worship in the colony and
gave to the Commonwealth its first
Governor, John Archdale. .
By them also at the suggestion of
George Fox the North Carolina Yearly
Meeting was established about 1698,
though services are only preserved as
far back as 1708. For many years the
Yearly Meeting was held in Perqui
mans, xnen as-the center ; of -gravity
shifted westward it was moved to
accommodate the majority, and for
many years was held at New Garden,
more recently at High Point, in Guil
ford county - -
r A common faith was the one bond,
between the Friends of. these two
sections. They were not of the same
origin, neither was the one the result
of the missionary work of the other.
In this county the Friends settled at
New Garden, Peep River, Springfield,
Dover, Centre, Jamestown and interven
ing localities, western Guilford in the
main. At all of these places and sev
eral others meetings for worship were
established, and several monthly
meetings set up, of which New
Garden, set oft from Cane Creek in
1754, is the oldest.
Their habits of industry and thrift
did not desert them in their new
homes and they at once set to work
clearing forests, plowing fields, erect
ing mills, and starting lan-yards.
Some were potters and plied their
trade, some were hatters and Beard's
celebrated hat shop was the result.
Members greatly increased after
the colony was well established new
bands of immigrants coming in from
time to time, as well as additions
through convincement of Friends'
views." i . ;..
I have heard my father say that in
his boyhood, on the road between
Jamestown and Deep River Meeting
House as they passed by Beard's hat
ter shop he has counted fifty carrfumT.
well filled with Friends wending their
way to meeting, . At the present time
most Sabbath mornings see only one.
Guilford! College has grown out of
the long and earnest efforts of the
Friends "inj North Carolina to build
and equip an institution; of learning
most thorough in every department of
instruction ;t andrepresents the work
of a large number of wealthy Friends
in various parts of America and Eng
land, who have felt the vital impor
tance of astrong central college to
promote the cause of Christian educa
tion. The institution was opened in
1837, and has been in continuous
operation since.
MATERIAL EQUIPMENT.
Five Brick Buildings..
Founders , Hall, 120 by 40 feet,
three , stories, with dining hall and
kitchen attached, a home for girls and
part of the faculty. Kino Hall, 120
by 50 feet, with octagon front, . two
stories, contains assembly room with
one hundred and fifty single desks;
Library, 50 by 30 feet, of about five
thousand volumes, Dr. nartshorne's
recent donation; Dr. Mendenhall
Memorial and Websterian and Henry
Clay Society Libraries, two elegantly
furnished Society Halls, Collegian of
fice, .and eight large and well-furnished
classrooms! ; .
Archdale Hall, 96 by 40 feet, two
stories, equipped as a lodging hall for
young men, single beds, two students
in a room, a member of the faculty in
charge. . ' y v. ':'-':v 'A.
Y. M. C. A. Hall, two . stories, one
large room reserved - for the . Associa
tion meetings, the rest of the building
furnished - as a lodging hall 'ior yoUhg
men, a J member of the faculty in
charge. ir : ' - .', !-y
Memorial Hall, erected to the
memory of Mary Elizabeth Lyon, by
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and only -semi-occasionally two or
three.
' The Friends' were from principle op
posed to slavery, having freed their
own slaves years before there was any
general movement towards that end.
This fact made them unpopular, and
with prophetic vision that is sanctified
common sense, they saw that " the
burning out of the foulest chimney of
the century " as Carlyle called it,
would scatter many fire brands, and
so desiring peace and not strife they
left North Carolina by thousands and
sought homes for themselves on the
free soil of the West, where at present
several large Yearly Meetings are in
the main composed of their descen
dents. .
Those who remained suffered in
many ways. They were opposed to
all war and would not take the oath
of allegiance to the Confederate Gov
ernment. Afull account of this period
may be found in "Southern Heroes,"
by G. F. Cartland.
There are at present in Guilford
county about fifteen hundred Friends,
I can not give the exact number be
cause we are registered by Quarterly
Meetings, and some monthly meetings
in Uuilf ord county belong to Quarterly
Meetings mainly in other counties.
There are six monthly meetings in
this county, New Garden, Dover,
Greensboro, Deep ! River, High Point.
Springfield and Centre. Two Quar
terly Meetings, Deep River and New
Garden. " ,
The Friends have always been earn
est advocates of education, and in 1837
opened a large boarding school for
both sexes at New Garden. This in
stitution has grown in usefulness and
equipment until recently it was
changed to Guilford College.
The Yearly Meeting also has a well
established and very attractive
orphanage near nigh PointJ Besides
these good , works " the . Friends
have a mission station in , the Blue
Ridge, and a very wide territory in
Davie county. They carry on evange
listic, temperance,, peace, Sabbath
school, and other, lines of Christian
service through large committees.
her brothers, B. N. and J. B. Duke, of
Durham, N. C, 117 by 50 feet, with ten
feet additional width at west end, two
stories with basement; containing
museum, valuable collections of min
erals and-animals, chemical, physical,
and biological laboratories, class:
rooms, and President's office; the en
tire second floor forming a magnifi
cent auditorium, furnished with opera
chairs, with seating capacity of eight
hundred.
l All these buildings are supplied
with water, the system of sewerage
having just been completed.
FACULTY.
'I The faculty of six men and four
women represent a wide range of
scholarship and culture, f
I President Hobbs and Professors
Davis and "Hod gin are natives of Guil-
ford county. Professors White, Wil
son, and Redding are natives of North
Carolina, and all except Mr. Redding
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are graduates of . Haverf ord College.
Professor Davis studied a year in Ger-
many. The President visited England
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in the interest of the College in 1891.
Mrs. Lydia N. Blair Principal of the
Preparatory Department, was pre
pared . for college in the excellent
schools in Canada, graduated, in the
classical course at- Earlham College,
Indiana, and also in the Normal
School of Toronto, OntarioC
Miss Louisa Osborn was graduated
in j the classical course at Earlham
College, and taught a number of years
in j the West before coming to Guil
ford. I Miss Henryanna Hackney received
the Bryn ' Mawr Scholarship at Guil
ford, and studied ope year at Bryn
Mawr College. .. -
MEMORIAL HAT.L.
JAMESTOWN.
A' Thriving Village on the Southern
T? ' Railway.
I Jamestown is one of those beautiful
little villages that dot the rolling hills
of Guilford, and lend enchantment to
the seeker after virtue in the walks
of men. x r
It was settled by the Quakers in the
early days when the followers of the
immortal Pox came to find unmolested
homes among the hills and valleys of
AVestern North Carolina.
I The town has grown from year to
year until to-day its scattering houses
shelter probably five hundred souls-
i It is located on the main line of theT
Southern Railway, ten miles south of
Greensboro and five miles north of
High Point,
A mile from the town proper is the
Oakdale Cotton Mill, said to be the
oldest cotton mill in the South. The
buildings now occupied by A the mill
were first built and operated as a gun
factory for the Confederate army, and
later, after the close of the war, were
converted into a cotton factory. The
mill is under the management of Mr.
JJ S. Ragsdale the treasurer, and oper
ates 7,000 spindles, v
In the heart of the town is the shoe
factory of Johnson Bros., a view of
which we present elsewhere. This bus
iness saw its inception as a cobbler's
shop, and grew to meet the demands
of j necessity until to-day it employs a
considerable force of skilled mechan
ics, with the most improved machin
ery, and its product finds a ready mar
ket among the trade all over the State.
; For the manufacture of almost any
commodity, Jamestown holds out an
Open hand to the investor and home
seeker, and while the town-has never
had a boom, and has never been adver
tised before the world it possesses fa
cilities and advantages that will at
once attract the trained eye of the
successful investor.
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LOCATION.
The buildings are beautifully situ
ated on a four jhundred-acre ilairj
farm six miles Aest of Greensboro.
The spacious- buildings. pleasing
lawns, the elevation nearly a thou
sand feet above the sea, good drain
acre, excellent water and wholesome
food with plenty
butter made on
of fresh milk and
the well-cultivated
farm, . all conduce
to good. -health.
good order, and good work.
SCHOLARSHIPS.
Bryn. Mawr College gives each; year
to the best schola
r of the young wo
men of the graduating class a scholar
ship of $400; Haverford, to the' best
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scholar of the .young men, $.100; and
the University a tuition scholarship
to the best scholar, either young man
or young woman.
admitted to Senioi
class, at Chapel Hill.
JOHNSON BROS & CO.
Johnson Bros. & -Co., shoe manu
facturers, of Jamestown, are demon
strating daily the possibilities jthat
await development along this line in
Guilford county. -
Their business was established
twenty years ago as a retail and cus
tom work shop and attracted consid
erable trade from, the jsurrounding
country. . -
Two years ago it was incorporated
with a capital stock of $4,000, the of
ficers being J. F. Cook, president, A. F.
Johnson, vice-president, and G. W.
Johnson, secretary and treasurer. -.
The goods manufactured are men's,
women's, children's and boys shoes in
heavy stock, and twenty-five pairs are
turned out daily. :, - f i "1
The product of this factory finds a
ready: market among the retailers of
the State;who. appreciate . the James
town shoe because of the honest work
manship and solid stock put into it.
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: COEDUCATIONAL.
I This Institution has been coeduca
tional from its founding; and the sys
tem is no experiment, its advantages
to both sexes being very great in re
spect to intellectual development,
good order in and out of school, and in
respect to purity and refinement of
manners.
- DEPARTMENTS.
Classical leading to B. A. degree.
Scientific and Latin Scientific leading
to'B. S. degree, Musical and Prepara
tory. '
; EXPENSES.
Tuition in college, per year. $50
Tuition in preparatory, per year. . 40
Board, including, furnished rooms,
lights, fuel, service, and medical
fee, per month. 8
Laundry, per month...... 1
jTotal for year in college classes..
$133
Total vor year ; in preparatory
classes ........................
CLUB SYSTEM.
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Board in clubs for young men,
College furnishing dining-hall
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teaching and high mora! nd relip0,,
tone exists solely for -o.mI it Caa
do-in the work of ethurijim: our?
men and women for tin h;(i s of i;;f
and for higher scholarly ;m,l profr.
sional pursuits. The .lart-e" niairrlol
and cash endowmcni aliuu ;i'i)allr
the expenses to be jtlncul Imr, s,i as tc
bring the advantages of, an ilur.itioa
within the reach, of all. ! '
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OAKDALE COTTON MILLS.
ThiVmill, ofvliich we prVrut h?T
xviih "n. view. i' said to he' tli ol-
cotton mill in the South. Iwiistii
during the civil war sis a Vrmi facfort
with Mendenhall' and Jianlnrr as the
proprietors.
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milling machinery" was ii..tall.-l atl
additions made fromiiiM to time
,tneet' the -growing demands of the b-
iness ' .
'At present the plant i!"11)111'
one -hundred and tn lmti.! . rti::i..:.'
eight thousand spindly' i'' t!..- n.ar. -facture
of cotton yarn- tul",?;
Nine years ago a ' ' !l ,)
erected as an addition l'1 1 a:j
enuinned with inodrrn ; 1 M ' r- a
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appliances tnrotigiMi-.. .
and. water power an. ...
Mr. J. S. Kagsdale.
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treasurer of the Mt.
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part of the county,
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