FRANKLIN ACADEMY UNDER JOHN B. BOBBITT, 1816
FRANKLIN ACADEMY.
The Undersigned Committee, have great pleasure in announcing to the public, and the friends of this seminary, that they have engaged as Principal Mr. John B. Bobbitt, a gentleman who has for some years superintended Literary Institutions, in which he has given very general satisfaction. This gentleman is a graduate of our own University, and is recommended as being well qualified to teach the English, Latin, Greek and French languages, together with the other branches of education usually taught in this Institution. The exercises of this Academy will commence on the first day of January next.
Richard Fenner,
Alex. Falconer,
Joel King,
G. Hill, Jr.,
Committee
December 21st, 1815.
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—Raleigh Star, December 29, 1815
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |