William Frankin (Whiteside) Whitesides (1827 - 1895)

Ancestors

Biography

William Franklin Whitesides and his wife, Maggie, organized the Cedar Bluff College for girls and young women in 1864 on the family farm on Drakes Creek. William was determined to educate his two daughters in a “select school in his own home.” He soon assembled other pupils to study with them and in 1867 obtained a state charter for the school. Cedar Bluff Female College was housed in a large, two-story frame building on a high point of ground three miles southeast of Woodburn, Kentucky.

The college offered such subjects as Latin, study of the modern classics, Virgil, Geometry, Algebra, Zoology, Logic, political economy, and advanced rhetoric. All students—usually between 50 and 80, from eight or nine states—were required to board at the college with the faculty, and were forbidden to leave the ten-acre campus unless chaperoned. Whitesides’ dairy and large farm supplied their dining table. On 21 January 1892, a fire destroyed the college. The displaced students and faculty were transferred to Logan Female College in Russellville

William died in 1905.

Sources

http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4095&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=5161&context=dlsc_mss_fin_aid

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Acknowledgments

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