I25409: Minerva ALVIS (1851

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1860 census, Hopkins Co. TX, page 201, Beat #9, woodland Post Office, enumerated Sep 20, 1860, Family #1143. ^[S315]

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Mother of three daughters and one son.

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Father: Hezekiah Brainerd Disc #52 Pin #455025
Mother: Dorthy Hobart Disc #52 Pin #455022

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my grandmother Emma Burrus (1905). Msg From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 15 Nov 2003
Subject: Re: George Swartz b 1806

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Father: Enoch Flowers b: ABT. 1693 Mother: Rebecca Barnard b: ABT. 1693
Marriage 1 James Morris ^[S3011]

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"The Will of Margaret [Leiper] Porter, Cecil County, Maryland Will Book 6, page 301-302: Names of children mentioned: James Leiper, (Polly's share) [This refers to Mary],
Nelly Porter [This would be Eleanor], Catherine Evans, Elizabeth Lindsey, deceased, grandson Andrew Arbuckle, grandson Andrew son of James Leiper."

"Margaret Gay had married an Arbuckle for her second husband. They are both deceased and the grandson, Andrew Arbuckle, had come back from Washington County, Pennsylvania to live with his grandmother after the death of his parents.

In her will Margaret mentions that the grandsons were getting Polly's share. This would most likely mean that "Polly" or Mary had died before her mother. In Margaret's will she has given something to the heirs of a child of her's that has preceded her in death. Margaret does not mention Robert Porter in her will or any children of Robert Porter. From this, we have concluded that Robert is not a child of Margaret and she is making sure that her estate just goes to her children and their heirs."

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The University began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi, one of the national Land-Grant Colleges established after Congress had passed the Morrill Act in 1862. It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in agriculture, horticulture and the mechanical arts . . . without excluding other scientific and classical studies, including military tactics. The College received its first students in the fall of 1880 in the presidency of General Stephen D. Lee. In 1887 Congress passed the Hatch Act, which provided for the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1888. Two other pieces of federal legislation provided funds for extending the mission of the College: in 1914, the Smith-Lever Act called for instruction in practical agriculture and home economics to persons not attendant or resident, thus creating the state-wide effort which led to Extension offices in every county in the State; and, in 1917, the Smith-Hughes Act provided for the training of teachers in vocational education.

Presidents of the College/University

General Stephen D. Lee (1880-1899)

By 1932, when the Legislature renamed the College as Mississippi State College, it consisted of the Agricultural Experiment Station (1887), the College of Engineering (1902), the College of Agriculture (1903), the School of Industrial Pedagogy (1909), the School of General Science (1911), the College of Business and Industry (1915), the Mississippi Agricultural Extension Service (1915), and the Division of Continuing Education, (1919). Further, in 1926 the College had received its first accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. By 1958, when the Legislature again renamed the College, as Mississippi State University, the Graduate School had been organized (1936), doctoral degree programs had begun (1951), the School of Forest Resources had been established (1954), and the College of Arts and Sciences had been created (1956).

The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, the College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its first class in 1977, and the School of Accountancy was established in 1979, rounding out the present structure.

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
Mississippi State University at Mississippi State, near Starkville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1878 as an agricultural and mechanical college, opened 1880. From 1932 to 1958 it was known as Mississippi State College. It has programs in arts and sciences, architecture, engineering, business and industry, education, agriculture and home economics, forestry, and veterinary medicine.

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
PART I. THE TOTAL UNIVERSITY

I. INTRODUCTION

A. The Setting. Mississippi State University forms part of a cohesive town-university community with the growing agricultural commercial-industrial town of Starkville. Located in the eastern part of north-central Mississippi, it is 125 miles northeast of Jackson and 23 miles west of Columbus, it is served by Highways 82,12, and 25 and by feeder air service through the Golden Triangle Regional Airport 14 miles east. Away from urban complexities, the community enjoys many intellectual, cultural, and recreational advantages: the MSU-Starkville Civic Symphony and Chorus; the Starkville Community Theater; the University Lyceum series, bringing professional musical, dramatic, and artistic groups and performers to the campus; the Lectern lecture series; art exhibits, plays, and recitals by local and visiting artists; public radio and public television programs through the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television; performances by popular musical groups of regional and national celebrity; frequent intercollegiate athletic events in modern facilities, and a variety of recreational opportunities on playing fields and courts, in neighboring forests, fields, and lakes, and along the Nearby Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.

B .The University. After more than a century, through the efforts and dedication of generations of men and women, Mississippi State University has come to be a comprehensive, doctoral-degree-granting university offering to a diverse and capable student body a wide range of opportunities and challenges for learning and growth; to the world of knowledge, vigorous and expanding contributions in research, discovery, and application; and to the State and its people in every region, a variety of expert services. Mississippi State University is the only institution in Mississippi designated as a Doctoral I university by the Southern Regional Education Board. In Its continuous and continuing growth to this stature, it is at once representative of the American Land-Grant tradition and distinctive in its own character and spirit, born of its Mississippi heritage and the vision and loyal perseverance of those who have labored in its development.

An able faculty, drawn from the best institutions in all parts of the nation, strive earnestly to perfect their teaching skills, while producing in their specialized studies scholarly books, articles, and conference papers that gain respect for themselves, the University, and the state. They thus ensure for their students instruction that is in immediate touch with current knowledge and thought. A body of energetic researchers, both faculty and other, assisted by an effective research administration, places Mississippi State among the first one hundred universities in the nation in federal research support. The University's service agencies are similarly distinguished, earning the respect and support of their varied constituencies throughout the state, as well as in other states and in foreign countries.
By 1958, when the Legislature again re-named the College. as Mississippi State University, the Graduate School had been organized (1936), doctoral degree programs had begun (1951), the School of Forest Re-sources had been established (1954), and the College of Arts and Sciences had been created (1956).

The School of Architecture admitted its first students in 1973, the College of Veterinary Medicine admitted its first class in 1977, and the School of Accountancy was established in 1979, rounding out the present structure.

D. Purposes. As a Land-Grant Institution, Mississippi State University is dedicated to the three broad Purposes already mentioned-learning, research, and service: learning, on-campus and off-campus, to enhance the intellectual, cultural, social. and professional development of its students;

My Southern Family

Minerva ALVIS

1851 - ____

ID Number: I25409

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Elizabeth BENSON

ABT 1670 - ____

ID Number: I75758

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Martha BRAINERD

1 Sep 1716 - 11 Oct 1754

ID Number: I102265

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Emma BURRUS

1905 - ____

ID Number: I98533

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Rebecca FLOWERS

30 Mar 1720 - 20 Jul 1806

ID Number: I79079

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Mary Hester Ann GRIFFIN

ABT 1810 - ____

ID Number: I37950

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Jesse J. HALEY

17 Nov 1884 - 13 Apr 1973

ID Number: I7881

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Margaret LEIPER

ABT 1720 - 1802

ID Number: I52100

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BEATREA (Bertrade) de MAINWARING

ABT 1190 - AFT 1249

ID Number: I27779

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George Taylor PENDLETON Jr.

12 Aug 1867 - 5 Mar 1924

ID Number: I20042

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Prof. Joseph Clarke ROBERT

ABT 1860 - ____

ID Number: I70391

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Lucille Brent SANDIDGE

Sally Flournoy WOOLDRIDGE

ABT 1765 - 1849

ID Number: I31695

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