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Re: Southern Colleges
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Kathleen Much <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:48:11 -0800
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On Dec 14, 2007 Anne Pemberton wrote:
>
> In a discussion about "The Education of Henry Adams", someone remarked
> that
> the colleges in the south were exclusively for the plantation class. Can
>
> someone provide examples of southern non-planter sons who attended
> college
> prior to the Civil War?

My gg-grandfather the Rev. Dr. Jacob Amos Lefevre was the son of
farmers; he attended Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg and graduated
from the Presbyterian seminary at Princeton (to become Princeton
University) in 1856. He lived in Baltimore, so maybe you don't count
him as Southern.

Kathleen Much

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