Browsing Christian Education, the Hope of the World: An Early History of Milligan College by Title

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Postal Card from Wilson G. Barker to Josephus Hopwood, July 29, 1875

Barker, Wilson Gilvan (1875-07-29)

A postal card from Wilson Barker to Josephus Hopwood informing Hopwood of his election as Principal of the Buffalo Male and Female Institute, dated July 29, 1875.
Subscription List, 1867

Unknown author (1878-06-07)

On June 7, 1867, seventy-nine subscribers pledged $1553 to build a new school building on the acre of land that was donated by Joshua Williams. The Institute, a two-story structure built by bricks fired on-site, was ...
Wilson G. Barker, c. 1865

J. Smarer (1865)

Rev. Wilson Gilvan Barker was born near Bristol, Virginia, on December 25, 1830. He was trained as a school teacher and served as a Colonel in the Confederate forces during the Civil War. On February 4, 1866, Barker was ...