Tennessee, four subsequent senators of the United States, three 

 governors and the proprietor of the first newspaper published in 

 Tennessee. Rev. Samuel Carrick, one of Doak's associates, was 

 the first President. 



In 1806 Blount College was merged in East Tennessee Col- 

 lege and, like Cumberland College, it suffered in consequence of 

 land troubles. Of this period of its existence the historian 

 of the University says : "From the death of the first 

 president, Rev. Samuel Carrick, who bears the two-fold honor of 

 planting the Presbyterian religion in the wilderness of Tennes- 

 see, founder and first pastor of the First Presbyterian church of 

 Knoxville, and the first president of East Tennessee College, to 

 the close of the Civil War, the history of the college is a story of 

 struggle and repeated disappointment, of heroic efforts on the 

 part of successive presidents, conspicuous among whom were 

 Shannon, Coffin, Estabrook and Cook, of alternate periods of ad- 

 vance and retreat." "The history of the period before the Civil 

 War was largely taken up with the effort to realize the land-grant 

 fund and to overcome the popular prejudice which was engen- 

 dered against the college on account of this struggle." 



In 1820 the college united with the Hampden-Sidney Acad- 

 emy of Knoxville, and in 1840 its name was changed to the East 

 Tennessee University. A few years prior to this date there be- 

 came a member of its faculty a man who was destined to be 

 one of the strongest publicists of Tennessee, one of the great 

 names of Southern educators, one of the most eminent thinkers 

 of the United States— Horace Maynard. 



The deluge of the Civil War prevented all efforts of the col- 

 lege which were not renewed until the resurrection of the Univer- 

 sity of Tennessee after that cataclysm. The work of this insti- 

 tution in recent years has made it one of the strongest universities 

 in the United States. In a report of the United States Commis- 

 sioner of Education several years ago was this significant state- 

 ment: "The State University of Tennessee, at Knoxville, after 

 the close of the Civil War, became a celebrated headquarters of 

 the movement for the establishment of the graded common school 

 in Southern villages and cities. Perhaps the most brilliant group 

 of superintendents of the graded schools of the Southern x\tlantic 

 and Southwestern States dates from this university, several of 

 the most distinguished being natives of Tennessee and graduates 

 of this school." 



EARLY PUBLIC EDUCATION. 



From the very foundation of the State the leaders in public 

 affairs acknowledged the benefit that would accrue to all the peo- 

 ple from a good system of public instruction, and the messages of 

 all the governors were filled with suggestions looking to the up- 



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