ADDISON H. WHITE PRINCIPAL.
FRANKLIN ACADEMY.

The Trustees of this Institution take pleasure in announcing to the friends of the Institution and the public at large that they have engaged as Principal in this Academy, for the ensuing year, Mr. Addison H. White, a gentleman of good moral character and high literary acquirements. Mr. White is a graduate of Yale College, and comes well recommended by the President of that University.   *   *    *

The Students will be instructed in the following branches of Education: to wit, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, the Latin and Greek Languages, with the pronunciation of the French, Algebra, Geometry, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, Superficies and Solids, Navigation and Surveying, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Chymistry, etc.    *    *    *
                                                 
Sam'l Johnson, Sec'y.
Dec. 8, 1823.

—Raleigh Star, December 12, 1823.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)