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424 pages including index, history of the county and the towns in it, businesses, churches, families and organizations, lots of b/w illustrations
Charles Pfander emigrated from Germany in 1832, settling first in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later in western Ohio. Descendants lived in Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Dakotas, Oregon, and elsewhere.
In 1871 Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn recommended that the state legislature support the formation of Alcorn University. The campus of Oakland College, a school founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1830, had been abandoned after the Civil War and was purchased for forty thousand dollars and designated for the education of black youth. The school became Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1878, and Alcorn State University in 1974. In this unique pictorial retrospective, over one hundred years of growth and change at Alcorn are explored and celebrated. Included within these pages are vintage photographs of the students and faculty that have shaped the school's history. From e...
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Dr. Isaac Chapelier, Sr. (1672-1706/7), a French Huguenot, was born at Uzes, Languedoc, France, the son of Rev. Louis Chapelier. He married Anne Arnaud in 1696 at London, England. They had six children, 1698-1706, born at London. He was a ship's surgeon and died in American waters. His son, Isaac Chapelier, Jr. (1698-1741) immigrated to America before 1730 and settled in St. Marys County, Maryland. Descendants listed lived in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, and elsewhere. Most descendants spelled their surname Chappelear.
Alcorn State University was founded in 1871, making it the oldest public historically black land-grant institution in the United States. Alcorn has undergone numerous changes and expansions over the years, and it continues to produce notable alumni and scholars in more than fifty fields. Succeeding against Great Odds covers nearly a quarter of a century since Josephine McCann Posey's first institutional history of Alcorn, Against Great Odds: The History of Alcorn State University. This new book briefly summarizes the first 123 years of Alcorn's history. The volume then explores the tenure of three interim and/or acting presidents, Drs. Rudolph E. Waters Sr., Malvin A. Williams Sr., and Norri...