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Dr. James Know Powers, State Normal College (1911-1913)
No full textIn 1897, Dr. James Knox Powers was offered the position of president at the University of Alabama and he accepted. He served in that position from 1897-1901. He served as President of the Alabama Education Association during this time (actually serving twice) He resigned in 1901 and became the southern representative of the B.F. Johnson Publishing Company of Virginia for the next ten years. He helped publish Colaw, Duke and Powers Arithmetics and Algebras. In 1911, he again became the president of State Normal College as the thirteenth president to hold this position. He died two years into his second administration on August 18, 1913.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1010/thumbnail.jp
Septimus P. Rice, State Normal School at Florence (1872-1881)
No full textSeptimus P. Rice was born in Virginia in 1832. He enrolled at LaGrange College in 1851, received his degree in 1853, and was offered a position as head of the Preparatory Department there at LaGrange. In 1854, he was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics. He served as Superintendent of the Preparatory Department and as Professor of Mathematics at Florence Wesleyan University from 1855 until it closed due to the war. He and Dr. Robert A. Young, President of Florence Wesleyan University at the time continued to teach during the war years. He became president of State Normal School at Florence in 1872 and continued in this position until he retired in 1881. He then became principal of Deshler Female Institute in Tuscumbia in 1889. He died around the turn of the century and was buried at LaGrange, Tennessee.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1006/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Robert Young, Florence Wesleyan University (1861-1865)
No full textDr. Robert A. Young was born near Lenoir City in East Tennessee. He was educated first as a physician and later a Methodist minister. He became the fifth president of Florence Wesleyan University in 1861. He was also appointed as pastor of Florence\u27s First Methodist church by the end of 1862.
*The Tennessee Conference convened on October 2, 1861, at the First Baptist Church in Athens, Alabama-listed in the minutes as the new president of the university.*https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1004/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Robert Paine, LaGrange College (1830-1846)
No full textIn 1830, Robert Paine became the first president of Methodist LaGrange College, located on Lawrence Hill, in what eventually became Colbert County after 1869. He served as president of the college as well as a professor teaching a range of subjects, from moral science to geology from 1830 until 1846, when he was elected bishop of the Methodist church at the first General conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Petersburg, Virginia. During his time at LaGrange, Paine also served as minister of the historic First United Methodist Church in Tuscumbia. In 1842, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Wesleyan University (Ohio). He died in 1882 and is buried in Aberdeen, Mississippi.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1000/thumbnail.jp
Aerial View of Florence State Teachers College
No full textAerial view of Florence State Teachers College (postcard)https://roar.una.edu/una_arch_images/1028/thumbnail.jp
Patton School
No full textDepiction of the exterior of the Patton School in Lauderdale County, Alabama.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1219/thumbnail.jp
Elgin Auditorium
No full textExterior view of the Elgin School Auditorium in Lauderdale County, AL.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1214/thumbnail.jp
Map of Florence State University
No full textThis is a campus map of Florence State University produced by E.E.N. Date unknown.https://roar.una.edu/una_arch_images/1037/thumbnail.jp
Mt. Zion School
No full textExterior of the Mt. Zion School in Florence, Alabama.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1190/thumbnail.jp
TVA Fertilizer Plant During WWII
No full textTVA Fertilizer Plant during World War II, including employees and propaganda signage.https://roar.una.edu/mcdonald_images/1186/thumbnail.jp