TARBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER MISS RAGSDALE AND MR. FARNAN.
TARBOROUGH MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMY.
THE Exercises of the Female Department of this Academy will re-commence on Monday the 3rd of January next, under the superintendence of Miss Anna Maria Ragsdale, a Lady eminently qualified to discharge the various duties of a tutoress, in the branches of Education assigned to her Department, which embraces all those branches of education, which constitute useful, accomplished, and polite literature. Miss Ragsdale has taught in this Department of our Academy, for the last two years, and the parents and guardians of those young ladies who have been placed under her care, and the Trustees of the Institution, pronounce, unhesitating, that their expectations and wishes have been realized, and that in every particular, the most entire satisfaction has been given.
The Trustees take pleasure in informing the public, that they have engaged Mr. Farnan to take charge of the Male Department of the Academy for the ensuing year. Mr. Farnan is a gentleman of moral and gentlemanly deportment—he is a native of Ireland, and admirably well qualified to discharge the duties of a teacher. He is a gentleman of classical knowledge and polite literature, a complete master of the dead languages, together with the Spanish, French and English. We have no hesitation in saying, as a linguist, that Mr. Farnan has not a superior in this State. Mr. Farnan has had charge of the Academy the last quarter, of the present year, and the Trustees and Parents feel much pleasure in stating their entire satisfaction at the progress of the Students and of the skill and manner in which the school is conducted. Mr. Farnan is eminently qualified to teach any branch of Education which is taught in any of our Academies, and even of College. Board and Tuition can be had upon reasonable terms, in the most genteel families.
Tarborough, December 19. Robt. Joyner, Sec'y.
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Raleigh Register, December 28,1824
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 