Atlanta University, Board of Visitors collection, 1871.

Corson, H.C.

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Bullock, Rufus B. (Rufus Brown), 1834-1907

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Rufus Brown Bullock was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y. He supervised building of telegraph line between N.Y. and the South and in 1859 was employed by the Adams Express Company (later Southern Express Company), and moved to Augusta, Ga. During the Civil War, he remained in Georgia, becoming a telegraph expert for the Confederacy. After the war he returned to Augusta and resumed his duties at Southern Express company and was also president of the Macon & Augusta Railroad. In 1868 he was...

Hopkins, John Livingston, 1828-1912

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Georgia. Governor (1868-1871 : Bullock)

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Atlanta University, founded in 1865, by the American Missionary Association, with later assistance from the Freedman's Bureau, was, before consolidation, the nation's oldest graduate institution serving a predominantly African-American student body. By the late 1870s, Atlanta University had begun granting bachelor's degrees and supplying black teachers and librarians to the public schools of the South. In 1929-30, it began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal a...

Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894

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Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), governor of Georgia and U.S. senator. From the description of Joseph E. Brown papers, 1858-1930 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 45894384 U.S. senator and governor of Georgia. From the description of Joseph E. Brown correspondence, 1862-1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451938 Governor of Georgia and U.S. Senator. From the description of letter signed : Atlanta, unaddressed, 1877 Apr. 7. (Unknown). Worl...

Atlanta University

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Atlanta University, now part of Clark Atlanta University, was founded in 1865 by the American Missionary Association with assistance also from the Freedmen's Bureau. Atlanta University developed graduate programs in different fields including liberal arts, social and natural sciences, and professional programs such as business, library science and business administration. In 1929, Atlanta University joined forces with Morehouse College and Spelman College to create Atlanta University Center. Lat...

Stout, Samuel Hollingsworth, 1822-1903

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Samual Hollingsworth Stout (1822-1903), physician. From the description of Samuel Hollingsworth Stout papers, 1847-1955 (bulk 1861-1865). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863336 Born in Nashville on March 3, 1822, Samuel H. Stout began his medical career in Tennessee in 1848 having turned down a commission in the U.S. Navy. With the outbreak of the Civil War he served as a surgeon in the Provincial Army of Tennessee beginning in 1861, and soon took over management of the Go...

Whitaker, Joseph, 1850-1932

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Hemphill, W. A.

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The Atlanta Constitution was founded when Carey Wentworth Styles and two partners, James H. Anderson and W. A. Hemphill bought the Atlanta Daily Opinion newspaper and renamed it The Atlanta Constitution, beginning publication on June 16, 1868. A charter subscription to this early paper cost $10 a year, $1 a month. Atlanta was still under martial law during the Reconstruction era. The founders advocated the return of a constitutional government as had existed before the Civil War, thus the name. ...