The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 177, Jan. 1882, U. of Illinois Press

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TU S KEGEE CATALOG 18%2 4 An error in tallying. This should have been ~ I, changing the junior class total to o9 and the school enrollment in the summary to ~ ~ 3. 5 Actually became law Feb. lo, 188~. 6 Abby E. Cleaveland, a native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., served as a volunteer teacher at Hampton from 1879 to 188~. After returning home she continued her interest in Hampton by handling the Hampton graduates' correspondence for thirteen years. She visited Hampton annually and initiated a program of soliciting Christmas boxes and contributions from her northern friends for rural schools taught by Hampton graduates. She died in ~ 908. 7 Probably the Sunday school of the African Zion Baptist Church which BTW attended as a boy and young man. When he taught school in Malden between 1875 and 1879, he was clerk of the church. Ellen Thurston, who, with her sister, Miss C. Thurston, was a contributor to both Hampton and Tuskegee. 9 Lucy Douglas Gillett of Westfield, Mass., served on the Hampton faculty from 1879 to 188~. Her brother, the Springfield lawyer Frederick Huntington Gillett, served thirty-two years in the U.S. House of Representatives. A Hollis Burke Frissell ~ ~ 85 ~-~ 7), chaplain and later president of Hampton Institute, became a close co-worker with BTW in Negro and southern educational matters. He was born in South Amenia, N.Y. His father, Amasa C. Frissell, had been a Lane Seminary rebel, and for twenty-five years was secretary of the American Tract Society. Hollis Frissell attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and Yale University, graduating in 1874. He taught for two years at DeGarmo Institute, Rhinebeck-on-Hudson, N.Y., then read for the ministry under an Episcopalian from North Carolina who exposed him to a sympathetic view of southern problems. During his study at Union Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1879, Frissell spent the summer of 1878 doing home mission work in New Brunswick, N.J. He found mission work congenial, but became assistant pastor of a fashionable New York church, the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. He then worked for the American Missionary Association for a time, and on an observation visit to Hampton Institute in 1880 he accepted General Armstrong's invitation to be the school chaplain. Frissell had influential family connections that were useful to Hampton Institute. His brother Algernon Sydney Frissell was president of the Fifth Avenue Bank. In 1883 he married Julia, daughter of Amzi Dodd, a prominent New Jersey judge. Leading a more worldly life than the typical missionary clergyman, Frissell was a member of the Century, City, and Yale clubs in New York and of the Cosmos Club in Washington, where he found some of the donors to his school. He became vice-principal and ran the school during Armstrong's frequent and protracted illnesses after 1886. When Armstrong died in 1893, Frissell succeeded him. Very different in temperament from the founder, Frissell continued Hampton Institute much as Armstrong had originally conceived it. Whatever creativeness this gentle man had went into efforts to establish interracial dialogue in the South. He was one of the more active participants in the Mohonk Conferences of the 1880s and Lagos, and with Robert C. Ogden, a Hampton trustee, helped found the Conference for Education in the South and the Southern Education Board. He worked closely with BTW in founding the Anna T. Jeanes Foundation for Negro education in ~ 907. He continued Armstrong's conservatism both in education and in relations with southern whites. He could quietly rebuke bigotry, but was not a forceful speaker or actor. I 7 7