Marble Falls College 1894

Marble Falls College History of

Source: The Highlander, Thursday July 26, 1962, 75th Anniversary Edition
Transcribed by Edna Cheatham, <ecrobinhood @ yahoo . com>, October 2009

Marble Falls College, Built in 1890, Served Educational Needs

The early educational needs of Marble Falls were met by the Marble Falls College, built in 1890 at a cost of about $15,000. This building today serves as the junior high school.

After 1900 the name of the school was changed to Marble Falls Academy. Here is what the college’s seventh annual catalogue, issued in 1894, has to say about the building and site:

“The handsome two-story building, 77x85 feet, is probably the only solid granite building in the State. It is constructed of material from the same quarry as that used on the exterior of the new State Capitol of Texas. It was erected in 1890 at a cost of about $15,000. It has in connection a two-and-a-half story frame building, well finished and furnished for a boarding hall.
“These buildings are situated in a beautiful elm grove one mile from the central portion of the town.

“The rainfall on the college roof is conveyed into a large cistern, affording the school an abundance of pure water.

“The buildings are near the center of a 10-acre campus, level, shaded and covered with granite sand, so that mud, even in rainy weather, is unknown.

“All these features secure the comfort and contentment and hence the application and advancement of the pupils.
“During the past few months the upper story of the college building has been finished in elegant style, thereby giving us three other handsome recitation rooms. The grounds have recently been enclosed with a neat and substantial fence, by which the appearance of the property has been much improved, so that Marble Falls can challenge any town in West Texas to show a more beautiful school property than that of her college.”

Bruce is Principal

      In 1894, W. H. Bruce, PhD., became principal of the college. There were 10 grades and a junior collegiate course. The board of trustees was composed of W. E. Ford, G. E. Green, and H. T. Ellison.

      The teaching staff that year included Bruce, R. W. Bruce, Mrs. Emma Haygood, Miss Leonora Burns, Miss Stella Hallford, and Miss Maggie Forbes. Miss Nilla Phinney and Miss Minta Brown were in charge of the music department and Miss Mollie McDonald was art instructor.

      That year there were 174 boys and 178 girls enrolled. There was no football, school buses or parties during week days. Few holidays were observed.

      In those days hogs and livestock ran at large in town and saloons were wide open on main street. Michel’s store and opera house, one of Marble Falls’ landmarks, was destroyed by fire in 1927.

      The college’s catalogue lists these shipments from Marble Falls for the 12 months period ending June 1, 1894:

      Hogs, 31 cars, 2900 head
      Horses and cattle, 33 cars
      Cedar wood and posts, 144 cars
      Pecans, 6 cars
      Miscellaneous freight, 40 cars
      Wool, 58,804 pounds
      Cotton, 1,210 bales

A statement from C. C. Pearson, agent for Austin and Northwestern Railroad, stated that in the same period there was shipped from Marble Falls station 4,600 cars of granite.

There are many familiar names in the 1894 enrollment in Marble Falls College and their listing by The Highlander will recall many poignant memories to its readers:

Allen, George
Male and Female Students were listed separately in 1894

Males Allen, George Allen, James Andrews, George Askew, William Females Alston, Amanda Alston, Anna Lee Andrews, Hattie Andrews, Dollie Andrews, Bertha Andrews, Lottie Askew, Maggie Askew, Pearle Aten, Ettie	Males Ball, Wesley Badger, Stillman Ball,, Foy Ball, James Ball, Ellis Barnett, Harvey Bates, Willie Bell, Wesley Bible, Willie Bible, John Birmingham, Joe Birmingham, George Bishop, Ellis Black, Oscar Blessing, Wiley Boltinghouse, Willie Branham, Peyton Broline, Eric Bridges, Don Brooks, Albert Brooks, Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Arthur Bruce, Ralph Bruce Byron Burris, Sedlie E. Females Badger, Maggie Ball, Ila Banta, Lula Bell, Birdie Bingham, Currie Bingham, Lula Bingham, Mabel Bishop, Little Blessing, May Blew, Etta Bowdain, Annie Bowdain, Lizzie Branham, Dora Branham, Flora Bridges, mattie Britt, Minnie Britt, Jodie Broline, Angla Brooks, Edna Bruce, Maud Burris, Johnnie Burris, Willie Bussay, Ervie	Males Chalk, Charles Chalk, Arthur Chapman, Jay Clark, Frank Clark, Ben Clark, Willie Colbath, Henry Cotton, James Cotton, Clevie Courtner, Gaines Cox, Crawford Crisp, Edward Crisp, Wayne Females Cehand, Minnie Chalk, Ella Chalk, Nannie Chapman, Mabel Chapman, Kittie Clark, Oscie Cline, Ollie Corruth, Nora Corker, Lillie Corker, Janet Cotton, Mollie Courtner, Cora Courtner, Effie Crisp, Emma

Males Daugherty, Winfred Dawson, Ira Dawson, Mack Dolan, Willie Dunlap, Thomas Dunlap, Edward Draper, Stewart Draper Edgar Females Daniels, Mabel Davis, Mary Daugherty, Georgia Dawson, Alice Dolan, Callie Dolan, Oscie Draper, Sallie Draper, Ethel Dunlap, Bessie Dunn, Edna Dunn, carrie Durbin, Lucy	Males Edoes, Meedith Edwoods, Robert Females Edoes, Rosa Evans, Virginia	Males Faubion, Herbort Faubion, Edwin Faubion, Carl John Faubion, Oscar Fitzpatrick, Eddie Fluitt, Eddie Forbes, Don Forbes, Joe Ford, Willie P. Friedsam, Leopold Friedsam, Isaac Females Fields, Mary Fields, Suzie Fitzpatrick, Nannie Flanagan, Nina Flanagan, Ada Ford, Effie Ford, Emma Ford, Mattie Fox, Maud

Males Gooch, Frank Graham, Anthony Green, Guy Grizzard, Virgil Grizzard, John Grizzard, Willie Gurley, Ralph Females Gibson, Zillie Graham, Lillie Graham, Alice Green, Lonnie Green, Lula Gunn, Lizzie Gurley, Flossie	Males Hammond, Am Hammond, Forrest Hammond, Dock Hammond, Oliver Haynie, Albert Hicks, Henry R. Houston, Clyde Houston, Harrie Houston, Kirk Hubbard, Claud Hubbard, Roy Females Harden, Dell Harden, Rena Hicks, Lizzie Hubbard, Grace Inks, Nellie	Males Janner, Willie Johnson, T Johnson, Alfred Jones, Herbert Kinser, John Kirk, Edward Females Janner, Belle Jay, Carrie Kenady, Allie Kirk, Emma Kuhnel, Ottie Kuhnel, Jennie

Males Lacy, John H. Lacy, Christian Lacy, Norton Lacy, John F. Lacy, Virgil Lacy, Rufus LaForge, James Locke, Columbus Longley, Robert Loose, Charlie Lowe, Bertie Luckie, Mack Females Lacy, Nora Lacy, Nettie Lacy, Lillian La Forge, Geneva Latham, Rinna Lindsey, Florence Lowe, Lena	Males Mar, David Marshall, Alonzo Maynard Earle McFarlane, Samuel McKamey, John McKamey, Tunnell Milam, Kenny Miller, Moses Miller, Willie Mills, Willie Mills, Richie Morrow, Joseph Morrow, Guy Moursund, Anton N. Murcheson, Clyde Murphy, John Murphy, Ben Females Marks, Ella Maxey, Mattie Maxey, Minnie Maxey, Margaret Maxey, Fannie Maynard, Blanche McClish, Viola McClish, Maud McFarlane, Mackie McKamey, Myrtle McKamey, Ivy McKee, Lena Miller, May Miller, Bessie Mills, Mary Moore, Lora Moore, Ethel Morrow, Georgia Murphy, Hannah Murphy, Polly	Males Nanney, Edgar Nelson, Nelson Orle, Edward Ogle, Noah Perry, Willie Perry, Mack Pharr, Callahan Phillips, Lee Phillips, Leslie Phillips,, Howard Phinney, Charles D. Phinney, Alex Females Nanney, Dovie Nanney, Vicie Ottinger, Lucy Perry, Ella Peters, Kate Peters, Maggie Peters, Sophie Peters, Mattie Peters, Charlie Peters, Jennie Peters, Susie Phelan, Attie Philipe, Claudie Phillips, Myrtle Phinney, Annie Phinney, Beulah Price, Myrtle

Males Randalls, Hiram Roper, Edgar Roper, James Roper, Arthur Roper, Leslie Russell, James Females Randalls, Nora Richards, Fay Richards, Hattie Richards, Ina Robinson, Ora Roper, Allie Roper, Myrtle Roper, Liska Roper, Ada Russell, Annie	Males Salters, Carl Saunders, Samuel Saunders, Lindsey Saunders, Oscar Savage, John Scott, Thomas Scott, Ben Shelley, Pleas Shuugart, Thomas Simmons, james Simpson, D. Simpson, Staunton Skaggs, George Skaggs, Calvin Smith, Titus Smith, Ernest Sparlin, Willie Spitler, Martin Spitler, Marion Steen, Walter E. Females Salters, Beulah Saunders, Sallie Saunders, Polly Saunders, Virgie Saunders, Nora Schultze, Irma Scott, Carrie Scott, Cora Scott, Quinnie Shelley, Mabel Shelley, Ethel Shelley, Fannie Shugart, Lillie Simpson, Daisie Simpson, Katie Skaggs, Clemmie Skaggs, Myra Smith, Mary Sparlin, Kate Sparlin, Edna Spitler, Rena	Males Taylor, George Taylor, John Thompson, Howard Thompson, D. Thurman, Fred Thurman, Willie Tuley, Powell Ussery, Arthur Waldrop, James Whiteaker, W. R. Wimberly, Virgil Worrell, James Worrell, Guy Yancy, Edward Females Taylor, Hattie Thompson, Ada Thompson, Minnie Thurman, Ada Tucker, Carrie Tuley, Grace Turner, Nella Ussery, Ada Van Pelt, Rena Walker, Jimmie Whitefield, Bertie Williams, Emma Wimberly, Cora Wimberly, Maud Wood, Bessie Worrell, Bertha Yancy, Lucy

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