Lucy Cobb Institute. Trustees extract: 5 November 1881, 1881.

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Lucy Cobb Institute. Trustees extract: 5 November 1881, 1881.

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The collection consists of an extract from a called meeting of the Trustees of the Lucy Cobb Institute dated 5 November 1881. The extract deals with thanking Mr. George Seney for his contribution of ten thousand dollars for the erection of the chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute.

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Seney, George I. (George Ingraham), 1826-1893

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Seney-Stovall Chapel (Athens, Ga.)

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Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.)

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The Lucy Cobb Institute, a secondary school for young women in Athens, was founded in 1859 by Thomas R.R. Cobb, a prominent lawyer and proslavery writer. Between 1880 and 1928 Cobb's niece Mildred Lewis Rutherford, a Lucy Cobb graduate, taught at the school. She served as principal for twenty-two of those years... Despite its success, the institute struggled to maintain high enrollment and keep its bills paid. The school faced acute financial difficulties in the 1920s, mostly because of the agri...

Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.) Board of trustees.

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