Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, Kentucky One Place Study

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Hindman Settlement School

In the 1880s a social reformist movement began in England and the United States, known as the settlement movement. Its goal was to alleviate poverty and encourage socialization across economic divisions. England's early efforts were concentrated in London, and when Jane Addams and others brought the movement to the United States, they focused on urban areas, where growing immigration and industrialization had increased socio-economic divisions.

Inspired by these ideas as well as the work of Susan Chester's Log Cabin Settlement in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, May Stone and Katherine Pettit saw a similar need in the communities of eastern Kentucky, where geographic isolation had severely limited the educational and economic opportunities of the residents. In 1902 the women aquired three acres at the forks of Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Knott County, Kentucky and established the Hindman Settlement School, the first settlement school in the United States.

The school also provided a community center for the county, offering health care clinics, social clubs, a library, an extension service, and a department of fireside industries to assist in marketing local craftwork. By 1920 the school had over 100 resident students and 250 day students. The facilities had expanded from 3 to 230 acres with 14 buildings.

In addition to regular classes, students were offered industrial education: agriculture, carpentry, dairying, mechanics and woodwork for boys; cooking, home nursing, laundry, sewing and weaving for girls.

The Hindman Settlement School is one of the few settlement schools still in existence today. As public education became more available in remote rural areas, many closed. The Hindman Settlement School now serves to offer education and service programs; to promote cultural awareness; and to address health and food insecurity issues.

• Hindman Settlement School Official Website
• Motto: Celebrating Heritage, Changing Lives
• Established: 1902
• Campus size: 200 acres

People

• WikiTree Profiles that link here

Notables and People of Interest

The following list of names was compiled from various source materials while researching the school. Not all of them have a verified connection as yet. For now, names in bold print indicate the person has a verified connection to the school and a WikiTree Profile. Others in the list may have either, but not both, and need further research. Names with an asterisk are not connected to the main tree.

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Associates

• Solomon Everidge (1822-1903) was reputed to have walked over 20 miles in order to meet May Stone and Katherine Pettit and convince them to set up their new school in Hindman.
• James Edward Thomas (1850-1933) dulcimer maker
• Jean Ritchie (1922-2015) American folk music singer, songwriter and dulcimer player; though Jean attended public school, six of her siblings were Hindman Settlement School students. Her other seven siblings attended the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Staff

Directors

• May Stone (abt.1868-1946) Co-founder of the Hindman Settlement School.
• Katherine Pettit (1870-1936) Co-founder of the Hindman Settlement School.
• Ruth Huntington* (1873-1940) (director)^[1]
• Elizabeth Watts* (1891-) (assistant director)^[2]
• Lucy S. Furman* (1870-1958) An American animal rights activist, novelist and short story writer; she was the first director of grounds, gardens and livestock at the Hindman Settlement School.
• Michael "Mike" Lee Mullins (1948-2012) - Executive Director of the Hindman Settlement School (1977-2012). ^[3][4]
• Raymond Kane McLain* (1928-2003) - Became the director in 1954, also founded the band The McLain Family Band.

Principals

• Fred Williams - Methodist missionary in India and close friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi; he was the Hindman Settlement School's principal in the 1940's.
• Ethel Margaret (DeLong) Zande* (1878-1928) An early principal at the Hindman Settlement School; she later went on with Katherine Pettit to found the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Teachers

• Jethro Amburgey* (1895-1971) - dulcimer maker and teacher of dulcimer making.^[5]
• Carol Hope (Smith) Codell (abt.1916-1986)
• Mildred Gordon^[6]
• Mildred Emerson^[6] (age 22 in 1920, b. Mass) Is this the same person as Mildred Smith, Teacher, b. Mass, age 30 in 1930? (parent birth location different, and still listed as single, though surname is different)^[7]
• Suzanne Hemlich or Henlich^[6][8]
• James Wayne Miller* (1936-1996) Influential Appalachian poet and educator; he was an active participant with the Appalachian Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School beginning in 1977.
• Emma H. Parker* (1863-)
• Elizabeth Reiniea[?]^[6]
• Elizabeth Roberts^[6]
• James Still (1906-2001) An award-winning American novelist, poet and folklorist; he became a volunteer librarian at the Hindman Settlement School.
• Rachel Thurston^[6]
• Mary Guthrie Wheeler (1891-1979) - music teacher and song collector^[9]
• Edna Frances (Wood) Turner* (1896-1988)^[10]

Doctors and Nurses

• Louise Southgate (1857-1941) One of the earliest female physicians in Kentucky; she taught classes and practiced medicine at the Hindman Settlement School in 1905.
• Dora Chestora Carothers* (1882-1969) (Nurse)
• Hannah Martin* (abt.1884-) (Nurse)

Workers

• Anna E Bennett^[6]
• Anna Ethel (Melville, Neish) Pengelley* (1879-1964) (House Mother)
• Gladys Watkins (Secretary)^[6]

Board

• Ruth Osborne -life member of the board of Hindman Settlement School ^[11]
• Frances R. (Estill) Beauchamp* (1860-1923)

Students

• Dr. Josiah H. Combs* (1886-1960) - school's first graduate
• Bessie Cook^[6]
• Elmer Holliday (1916-2005)
• French A Maggard^[12]
• Reuben Morgan (student)^[13]
• Carl Dewey Perkins (1912-1984) A graduate of the Hindman Settlement School; he went on to become an important and lifelong politician representing the area.
• J. Phil Smith* (1924-2016) - President of the First National Bank of Jackson Kentucky^[14]

Visitors

• Julie Wyman* (1885-1937) A successful American soprano known for performing traditional music; she visited the Hindman Settlement School in 1916 during a six-week journey through Eastern Kentucky collecting folk music with Howard Brockway. In 1917 she gave a concert of Appalachian folksongs in Chicago to benefit the Hindman Settlement School.
• Howard Brockway* (1870-1951) American pianist and composer; he visited the Hindman Settlement School while travelling with Julie Wyman collecting traditional folk music.
• Cecil Sharp* (1859-1924) English collector of traditional music, he collected folk songs at the Hindman Settlement School along with Maud Karpeles.
• Maud Karpeles* (1885-1976) English collector of traditional music, she collected folk songs at the Hindman Settlement School along with Cecil Sharp.
• Alan J. Lomax (1915-2002) American ethnomusicologist; he collected traditional music from the Hindman Settlement School in the 1930s.

Research Notes and Page Updates

• This page was begun in Aug 2022 and is still a work in progress. If you have suggestions or contributions, please feel free to make edits, comment below, or contact the study coordinator, or the Appalachia Project.
• So far, only the 1920 census record of the school has been found to list students. It's not yet clear if the school always had boarders during its early years of operation. Further research is still needed for other decades. To date, no compiled records of students have been found online.
• Deed or other county court records for the school?
• Current number of profiles present on WikiTree: 31/39 (79%).
• Of those, current number of connected profiles: 12/31 (39%).

Further On-line Reading and Resources

• The settlement movement
• Settlement schools
• Settlement schools in Appalachia
• New Outlook article
• Southern Highland Handcraft Guild
  
  
• Hindman Settlement School YouTube video

Project and Category Links

• Appalachia Project
• Kentucky Project
• One Place Studies Project
• Hindman Settlement School OPS category
• Hindman, Kentucky category
• Kentucky Appalachians category

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Sources

1. ↑ Good Health
2. ↑ obituary
3. ↑ Obituary
4. ↑ Oral History interview
5. ↑ Tapp, Hambleton. 1966. Kentucky lives: the Blue Grass State who's who; a reference edition recording the biographies of contemporary leaders in Kentucky. Hopkinsville, Ky: Historical Record Association. page 11.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8} 1920 Census: "United States Census, 1920"
   citing Affiliate Publication Number: T625; Affiliate Film Number: 577; Line: 37; FHL microfilm: 1820577; Record number: 12503;
   FamilySearch Record: MHLT-7FY (accessed 7 August 2022)
   FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRX3-Q57 Image number 00264
   May Stone (40), single in Knott, Kentucky, United States.
7. ↑ 1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930"
   citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 4A, line 36, family 62, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 760; FHL microfilm 2,340,495.
   FamilySearch Record: XMXV-XRW (accessed 17 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9RHW-J2K Image number 00820
   Mildred Smith (30), single head of household in Hindman, Knott, Kentucky, United States. Born in Massachusetts.
8. ↑ 1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930"
   citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2827, sheet 8A, line 5, family 137, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 482; FHL microfilm 2,340,217.
   FamilySearch Record: XS59-D67 (accessed 17 March 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRH7-FZ8 Image number 01073
   Suzanne Henlich (48), single lodger, in household of Martha Gallery (50) in Chicago (Districts 2627-2876), Cook, Illinois, United States. Born in Germany.
9. ↑ bio and interview
10. ↑ Smith Alumnae Quarterly
11. ↑ Coleman, J. Winston, and Jack W. Oldham. 1977. Kentucky's bicentennial family register. [Kentucky]: J.W. Oldham. page 132-133.
12. ↑ Coleman, J. Winston, and Jack W. Oldham. 1977. Kentucky's bicentennial family register. [Kentucky]: J.W. Oldham. page 290. wife's DAR app
13. ↑ The Public Health Nurse
14. ↑ Obituary

• 1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930"
  citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 3B, line 93, family 51, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 760; FHL microfilm 2,340,495.
  FamilySearch Record: XMXV-XPP (accessed 15 March 2023)
  FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRHW-VPW Image number 00819
  Elizabeth C Watts (39), single head of household in Hindman, Knott, Kentucky, United States. Born in Massachusetts.
• 1940 Census: "United States Census, 1940"
  citing enumeration district (ED) 60-6, sheet 3B, line 60, family 40, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1326.
  FamilySearch Record: K7TL-YXH (accessed 17 March 2023)
  FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9M1-74H
  Elizabeth Watts (49), single lodger, in household of Martha Burns (63) in Magisterial District 2, Knott, Kentucky, United States. Born in Massachusetts.
• 1950 Census: "United States 1950 Census"
  citing Page: 4; Line: 17;
  FamilySearch Record: 6F76-B1DX (accessed 17 March 2023)
  FamilySearch Image: 3QHJ-5QHW-B9W8-8
  Elizabeth C Watts (59), single, Executive Work, head of household in Hindman, Knott, Kentucky, United States. Born in Massachusetts.

See Also

• Wikidata: Item Q5766121, en:Wikipedia
• Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog: Hindman Settlement School Records, 1899-1979
• Berea Sound Archives
• The quare women's journals: May Stone & Katherine Pettit's summers in the Kentucky mountains and the founding of the Hindman Settlement School. Edited by Jess Stoddart. Ashland, KY : The Jesse Stuart Foundation. 1997.
• Hindman Settlement School Oral History Project. Pass the Word.

Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Kristin (Williams) Anderson and Tara (Smith) Bentley for their invaluable research and contributions to this page.