English: Stonewall Jackson College, Abingdon, Virginia, 1914 (On November 24, 1914 the buildings were destroyed by fire. Rebuilt as Stonewall Jackson Female Institute it remained open as a women’s college until 1930

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Title: Our Presbyterian Educational institutions, [1913-1914]
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the United States
Publisher: Louisville, Kentucky : Presbyterian Church in the United States, Department of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ers 9 Property. --Land (250 acres) and 15 buildings, value.$245,500.00 Furniture and equipment, value 13,600.00 Library, 18,000 books, value 20,000.00 Total property $270,100.00 Endowment : Income producing 187,000.00 (Pledges toward additional endowment, about$25,000.00.) Total Assets (exclusive of pledges) $466,100.00 Indebtedness.—None. Total Net Assets $466,100.00 Gifts Received during Year $ Expense of Maintenance: Faculty salaries $ 12,100.00 Other salaries All other expenses 12,551.00 Total expenses S 24,651.00 Income for Maintenance: From endowment and gifts $ 13,802.00 Student fees 9,132.00 Other sources 2,817.00 Total income 25,751.00 Balance in treasury $ 1,100.00 Students: College 122 Preparatory Others (special) Total 122 Graduates 1912-13 12 Bible Study.—Required of all students one hour a week for three years. Alumni since 1776: Ministers 500 Students now in theological seminaries L3 ( Ither Christian workers < ither professions 1,200 Total graduates, about 1,000
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Colleges. Ill Stonewall Jackson College, Abingdon, Virginia For Women. Founded 1869. Government.—By thirty trustees, one-half elected by the Boardand one-half bv the Presbytery of Abingdon. STONEWALL Jackson College is the only Presbyterian Schoolfor girls in Southwestern Virginia, Southwestern WestVirginia, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee, andWestern North Carolina, from which sections our present patron-age has come. One hundred years ago every family in South-western Virginia was Presbyterian.Within a radius of thirty miles, fourschools of other denominations arebidding for our girls (and getting someof them). If we do not maintainStonewall, what will be the fact100 years hence? The teaching is decidedly Presby-terian. The Bible is memorized aswell as studied (a four years course,with about 200 memory verses eachyear). The courses of study offered arefull and varied, the teachers conse-crated as well as competent, and the

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