Address of Thomas H. Ellis [manuscript], 1894 May [18?].

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Address of Thomas H. Ellis [manuscript], 1894 May [18?].

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In May of 1894, Colonel Thomas H. Ellis, one of the oldest living alumni of the University and the first secretary of the first Society of Alumni, addressed a meeting of the District of Columbia Alumni Association, recalling his childhood in Richmond, his youth at the University, and subsequent career as a diplomat and railroad and bank president. Ellis recalled being taught to swim by family friend Edgar Allan Poe; witnessing a fist fight between U. S. Senator and Board of Visitors member William Cabell Rives and Virginia Delegate and future governor Thomas Walker Gilmer; chicken dinners at 10 p.m. supplied by "Lewis the Bell-Ringer"; the founding of the Society of Alumni; and the good times at Cocke's tavern on the stage road to Brown's Gap.

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