The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 54, 10 June 1875, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers For many years prior to his death, he annually spent a week at Hampton for rest and relaxation. ~ William E. McKee. 9 Benjamin Stoddert Ewell (~8~o-g4) was president of the College of William and Mary from 1854 to 1888. A Brigadier General Richard L. Page, C.S.A., commanded Fort Morgan, located at the entrance to l!LIobile Bay, during the Civil War. He became famous for holding the fort for almost three weeks under a heavy attack by Admiral Farragut's fleet before finally surrendering, on Aug. c3, 1864. t Orland Dorman' a retired lawyer and judge living in Norfolk, listed in the 1870 census as sixty years old. t2 John William Jones (~836-~gog), born in Louisa, Va., graduated from the University of Virginia in ~ 859 and attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary before serving in the Confederate Army as a chaplain. He became known for his revival meetings, at which large numbers of soldiers were converted. After the war he served in a variety of capacities, including assistant secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, chaplain of the University of Virginia, agent for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, superintendent of the Virginia Baptist Sunday School Association. and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans. ]3 Alice M. Ferribee Lewis was born in North Carolina in 1855 and graduated from Hampton in the class of 1875. After graduation she taught school in North Carolina and Virginia for two years before marrying another Hampton graduate, Peyton Lewis, a Methodist minister. The Lewises settled in Indiana. ,4 William P. Henry was born in Philadelphia in 1857. He taught school in Virginia and then Maryland after his graduation from Hampton. ]5 Sallie P. Gregory Johnson was born in Chatham, Va., in 1854. After graduating from Hampton she taught for more than eight years in Chatham and for three years at the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in Petersburg. In 1893 she was residing in Lynchburg. ~6 Charles W. Greene (~849-~9~6), born in North Carolina, later became an important member of the Tuskegee Institute staff. After graduation from Hampton he taught and farmed in Virginia and North Carolina. He came to Tuskegee Institute in ~ 888 to work under J. H. Washington as farm manager and was placed in charge of the brickyard. He remained farm manager until 1909, a period in which the size of the farm increased from 40 to over a,ooo acres. After 1909 he held a number of positions of steadily decreasing responsibility until his retirement in 19~8. ]7 Robert W. Whiting (~8s6-go), born in Campbell County, Va., taught in the public schools of Virginia until 1885, when he became secretary and later treasurer and business manager of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in Petersburg. '8 Squeers was the schoolmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a Yorkshire academy in Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby. The novel described the incompetence, closedmindedness, and cruelty of education in a supposedly typical English academy of his day. 19 Madison M. Mendenhall was one of the few graduates who apparently was not greatly influenced by the Hampton philosophy. Reports to his alma mater at various times after his graduation indicated that he ''went to sea,'' was ''a rolling stone,'' and finally ''was keeping a bar-room and passing off for a white man.'' (`Twenty-two Years Work, 54.) v - v ~ ~ 54