The following information was sent to me from Margaret Braun email address maggielou@columbus.rr.com.
Margaret's grandmother is listed as one of the students. It
was saved from the trash bin by her sister in law who happened to be at an estate
auction for one of their cousins. Please protect your genealogy and history,
give your documents a safe future. |
The following was written in The Men, Women, Events ,Institutions and Lore
of Casey County, Kentucky collected by W.M. Watkins. The information was collected
by him during 1936, 1937, and 1938. Republished by the Casey County News, Liberty,
Kentucky in 1967. |
Janie Wash Institute was a school organized after the Civil War by the people of
Middleburg, Casey County, Kentucky and of the adjoining areas. It was named
in honor of the wife of T.W. Wash who was one of the trustees of the school
and was County Clerk of Casey County for 2 decades. The name of the school
was later changed to Middleburg Normal College. The school was reorganized
into Middleburg Graded and High School around 1908. The old buildings
of Middleburg School were torn down in 1936 and work was begun on a modern building. |
1892-93 Board of Trustees:Rev. J.N. Bowling, President; C. Reynolds; E.B. Caldwell: W.J. Ward; T.W. Wash; F. M. Ware; M.W. Jones; E.J. Godby; W.T. Coulter; J.N. Huff, Principal Faculty - J.N. Huff, Principal, High School Department; J.H. Allen, Preparatory Department;*R.H. Brown, P.H. Taylor, Intermediate and Primary Departments; Miss Pauline Smith, Music Department; Mrs. J.N. Huff,Art Department. (*Retires) The Janie Wash Institute The buildings, grounds, and all appurtenances are owned by a stock company, who elect trustees for the management of the school. The object of this institution is to give solid education to all who may desire, but especially to the youth of the mountain country. There is a wide stretch of country around Middleburg which is destitute of a school of high grade. The highlands, poor in agricultural and mineral resources, are full of aspiring young men and women whom we wish to educate, and send out with cultured minds, correct habits, and good manners. These, who crave a further development of their God-given faculties, but whose means are not sufficient to enable them to attend school at remote and expensive centers of education, can find at The Janie Wash Institute every thing suited to their circumstances. 1.) The location of the school at the edge of the highland rim makes it easy of access, and also furnishes ample resources for all necessary provisions for boarding-houses. It is removed from all vain, haughty, and mock aristocratic fast life, hence pupils are never embarrassed on account of plainness of dress or awkwardness of manner, but feel happy and welcomed among a hospitable people. 2.) The expenses at this school are the very lowest of any school of like grade and equal merit. At the same time we want it understood that we are not competing with cheap schools, for it is merit that wins. There may be lower-priced schools, but none really cheaper, when the amount received, grade of instruction given, and the entire course of training is considered. We earnestly invite an examination of our claims. Come to Middleburg, see the surroundings, investigate the possibilities of our school, and examine our house, its plan, furniture, and apparatus, learn the character of our teachers and their work. You are most cordially welcomed to the home of the principal should you come. 3.) The course of instruction is not burdensome nor cast-iron, yet sufficiently full for all practical purposes. To those who desire a full course of the languages, mathematics, science, and literature, we offer to give a thorough preparation for entering any college. But our aim is to furnish a course of study adapted to the great majority of students --- those who desire to have a thorough, practical, and business education, and who never expect to pass beyond the bounds of a high school. For this class, we have arranged a course of study at once comprehensive, practical, and pre-eminently developing. 4.) The teachers have had experience with this class of students, understand their aspirations, and ambitions, sympathize with them in their struggles, and are ready at all times to aid and encourage them. Middleburg In a small village of two or three hundred inhabitants, situated in the mountains of South-eastern Kentucky, bordering on the "Blue-grass" region, famed for unbounded fertility and healthfulness. Here the student can breathe the pure air from our mountains, drink the health giving draughts of her limpid springs, and receive the inspiration of wild, weird scenery spread out in all its grand panoramic beauty. The young soul, stirred into activity amid such environments, is sure to be elevated and developed to a degree far beyond that reached amid any other surroundings. Experience has taught that near the great struggle for wealth and fame in our stirring commerical and manufacturing centers is a poor place for an institution of learning. In fact, history fails to reveal a single notable instance of a successful school in such places. In these towns and cities of wealth the mind of the young is absorbed with dreams of riches and quick roads to fortune and fame. Hence the necessity of retiring from the busy marts of trade and industry to the quiet retreats of rural villages, but still connected by railroad and telegraph with the world of thought and action. No higher or better testimony to the excellent character of her people can be given than the fact that all saloons have been uprooted and banished. The power and wiles of the whisky traffic are well known. No amount of culture, refinement, or preaching can make a town whose schools and churches are environed and overshadowed by saloons, distilleries, and other sinks of vice and iniquity, a safe place for the education of children. The village of Middleburg is orderly, and has a strong moral, temperance, and religious force. The Baptist, Methodist, and Disciples all have regular Sunday-school, preaching, and prayer-meeting services. Janie Wash Institute Persons wishing to locate their families for the purpose of educating their children can find no better place. Lots can be procured close to the school at $100 to $125, and a short distance from the school at a much cheaper rate. Four new two-story buildings have been erected during the past year, and others are to follow during the coming fall and winter. Come to see us and examine the claims of our village. Our Aims The age is one of stirring activities, of rapid action, of quick thought and execution. The demand is for young men and women of cultured minds and honest hearts, who are not afraid to take hold of the affairs of life and push them with a vim, guided by correct reason and integrity of purpose. Is is our aim to fit those who come to us for an education to meet the demands. Man has two natures -- animal and spiritual. The animal nature needs physical development; for it is impossible to have perfect spiritual development in a frail, wrecked animal habitation. The animal nature needs food and clothing, but the essential feature for schools to notice is the curbing of those animal appetites and passons which so often blast and ruin the hopes of youth forever. The school is brought to a consideration of some part of the Bible or of some noble character, and God's blessings implored each day before entering upon the duties of the day. At this time and at all opportune times man's weakness, when left to himself without God's guidance and help, is endeavored to be impressed upon the minds of the pupils. It is our aim to inspire the soul to grand achievements, to cultivate the faculties, and thus lift it nearer to God, while endeavoring to change, curb, or totally prohibit the indulgence of the lower desires, appetites, or passions. A cultured intellect, guided by a purified heart, controlling a perfect physical development, is our highest aim and desire. |
List of Pupils 1892-93 |
Allen, Etta Bowling, Walter Bowling, Pearl Buis, George Bryant, Willie Bryant, Jessie Beldon, Etta Beldon, Bertha Bradshaw, Rachel *Bowling, Mrs. J. N. Coleman, Virgil Coleman, Clarence Coleman, Ethel Coulter, John Coulter, Lena Coulter, Dollie Coullter, Jessie *Clayton, Laura Cloyd, Jessie Cloyld, Carrie Durham, Geo. Durham, Fred Durham, Emma Durham, Mattie Durham, G.M. Durham, G.C. Durham, J.J. Davenport, Nora Davenport, Loretto Davenport, Ray Davenport, Polly Drye, Jimmie Elliott, Mary Elliott, Etta Elliott, Mack Elliott, Matilda Elliott, Blanche Elliott, Ray Elliott, Luther Elliott, Oscar Elliott, Mattie Estes, Arthur Estes, Mattie Fogle, Preston Fogle, Nannie Fogle, Emma Fogle, Bessie Fogle, Jesse Fogle, Willie Frederick, Clara Frederick, Mamie Frederick, Maud Frederick, Claud Frederick, Lula Floyd, D. S. *Fogle, Lena Godby, L.J. *Godby, Bettie Godby, Della Godby, Matilda Godby, Effie Godby, Duke Godby, Stuben Gann, Willie Gann, Sadie Gann, Tellius Gann, Rufus *Grisham, May Humphrey, Ambrose Humphrey, Lou Hayes, David Hayes, Leroy Hayes, Susie Hayes, Jasper Hayes, John Holland, Richard Jones, Elmer |
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Jones, Frank Jones, Bertha Jones, Orestes Jones, Selima Keeney, Albert Keeney, Edwin Keeney, Robert Keeney, Lillie Keeney, Murphy Keeney, Samuel Lucas, Alva Lucas, Mary Lucas, Luther Lucas, Martha Lucas, Virgil Lucas, Annie Belle Lucas, Neatie Lucas, Clarence Linthacum, Martha Linthacum, Hermie Linthacum, Sallie Linthacum, Jimmie McAninch, Polk McAninch, Razia McAninch, Jennie McAninch, Charles McAninch, Florence McAninch, Clell McAninch, Henry McDaniels, Mattie McDonald, Annie Miller, Sarah Miller, Lillie Miller, Clara Miller, Edgar McKinney, Maggie McKinney, Birdie Moran, Allie Merit, William Thomas Moore, E.C. Martin, Pierce *Myres, Codellia *Myres, Zora Rains, J.T. *Royalty, Mrs. Eva Rigney, Pearl Short, Jeff Short, Arthur Short, Annie Short, Dolly Simpson, Spurgeon Sweeney, Minnie Sweeney, Ella Sweeney, T.H. Sweeney, Ballard Staton, J.R. Staton, Pearl *Spangler, Nora Taylor, P.H. Taylor, F.W. Taylor, Bannie Taylor, Colletta Thomas, Zach Wesley, Willie Wesley, Elbert Wesley, Eubert Wesley, Jason Wesley, Virgie Wesley, Florence Wheat, W.L. Wheat, Lizzie Wheat, Rufus Wilcher, Mary Wilcher, Elnora Wells, Julia Ware, Eugenie |
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The Janie Wash Institute |
Middleburg, Kentucky |