DR. MOORE ELECTED PRESIDENT
Dr. Theophilus Wilson Moore, who was elected
president on June 21, 1889, served two years,
making many friends for the school and increasing its
prestige among the people of Florida.

Dr. Moore was born at Mount Tirza, North
Carolina, in 1832, a son of Dr. Portius Moore, and
a grandson of Colonel Stephen Moore of the Army
of the Revolution. He was graduated from the
University of North Carolina in 1852. In the
same year, he married Mary Ann Smith and went
to California as a missionary. At the end of two
years, he returned to North Carolina, where they
remained until the outbreak of the Civil War. He
offered his services to the Army of the Confederacy
and was made a chaplain in the Carolina regiment.
Soon after the close of the war, he moved to
Florida, in order that he might accept an appoint-
ment in the Florida Conference. After serving at
Tallahassee and Lake City, he was made presiding
elder of the Jacksonville district in 1874.

While living in Jacksonville, he developed a
100-acre orange grove twenty miles south of the
city, on the St. Johns River. In 1881 he wrote
and published a book on orange culture, which
was regarded as a standard work on this subject
for perhaps thirty years. He was sent to Monti-
cello in 1882 to serve as a pastor, and remained
there two years. It was at this time that he was
elected to membership on the board of trustees of
what was then known as Emory College, in Geor-
gia. His work with the Georgia institution
caused him to become interested in higher education
in Florida. He was among the first to take active
steps for establishing the college at Leesburg, and
was a member of the first board of trustees. The
honorary degree of doctor of divinitv was conferred
upon him by Emory College.

His Florida appointments also included Sanford,
Bartow, Fort Pierce, West Palm Beach and Quincy.
While serving in Lake City a second time, he wrote
a book entitled "Revelation," which was pub-
lished several years later. In 1892 a patent was
granted to him for a flying machine. He worked
upon this several years, but the gasoline engine
had not then been perfected, and he was forced to
let the machine go unfinished for lack of motor
power. He later obtained patents on a rotary
steam engine.

While living in Sanford, Dr. Moore persuaded
the town council to run water from several artesian
wells through tiling laid a foot beneath the sur-
face of the main street. This made possible a cool
and firmly-packed street, even in the warmest
weather. Several years later, truck farmers adop-
ted this method for irrigation and drainage.

Dr. Moore's first wife died while they were
living in Leesburg in 1891. They had two sons,
T. V. Moore, who was born in 1857 and died in
1927, and E. T. Moore, who was born in 1874 and
is now living in Miami.

Several years after the death of his first wife, Dr.
Moore married Mattie P. West, of Quincy, Florida,
who died in 1911 in California. He spent the last
few months of his life in the home of his eldest
son, T. V. Moore, dying in 1908. He was a Mason
and an Odd Fellow and a member of the American
Pomological Society.

C. E. Pelot was elected chairman of the board of
trustees on January 10, 1889. Other officers chosen
were Dr. J. Anderson, vice-chairman; T. J. Love-
lace, secretary, and Charles W. White, treasurer.

A committee of trustees appointed to present a
plan for discipline in the college, reported June 2,
1890, as follows:

"(1) The system of demerits shall be carried out
as the plan of college government, except in the
primary department. (2) The president shall
award demerits according to his judgment. (3)
When the number of demerits shall justify suspen-
sion, the case shall be acted upon by the faculty,
who may suspend the student for such time as they
may agree upon. (4) When the gravity of the
offense shall be such as to require trial for expul-
sion, the case shall be laid before the faculty and
the local board of trustees, who shall have power
to expel if that is deemed best."

Dr. Moore was re-elected for his second term as
president on June 2, 1890. Besides administrative
duties, his work included the teaching of mental,
moral and natural science. Rev. F. A. Taylor was
appointed professor of mathematics and the ancient
language courses were assigned to Professor E. G.
Chandler.

FIRST GRADUATING CLASS

The graduating class of 1890, the first in the
institution's history, included Miss Addie W.
Abney, Miss Henrietta Abney, Miss Hannah W.
Hopson, Mrs. J. A. Hendry, Miss Linnie E. Ses-
sions, Mrs. G. C. Warner and Mrs. E. K. Whidden.
Mrs. Warner was graduated with first honors.
Second honors were won by Miss Addie W. Abney
and Miss Henrietta Abney.

Members of the class of 1891 were Mrs. J. G.
Stewart, who won first honors, Miss S. Annie Lee,
who won second honors, and Rev. William Clar-
ence Norton.

Onlv two students were graduated in 1892
They were Rev. Josephus P. Durrance and Rev.
Harry W. Penney.

The roll of the preparatory department for 1891-
1892 included Loulie Barnett, Doak Barnett,
Gretchen Bartlett, Lily Cochran, Ruby Geiger,
Edmonia Hopson, Preston Hopson, Gordon Hop-
son, Bertie Lee, Maggie Lee, Fannie Lee, George
McKee, John Noble, Edward Partridge, Grace
Partridge, Mortie Partridge, Joe Randolph, Harry
Steinmever, Maud Steinmeyer, Carrie Watts and
George Miller.

Students listed as sub-freshmen were W. A.
Abney, W. J. Alsobrook, Gertrude Alsobrook, 
Fred Barnett, Lela Barnes, John C. Bridges, Sal He
Bell Bridges, Joe Curry, Willie Cox, Annie Collins,
Jesus Castellanos, L. R. Douglas, Lora Dunklin,
Bessie Easterlin, Julia Fussell, William J. Gautier,
Nina Geiger, Annice Geiger, W. A. Green, Louise Harrison,  George J. Hall, James Hopson, James
Hooks, Lewis Holloway, Edgar Holloway, Nellie
Hubbard, Willie Ivey, Walter Janes, Minnie Jones,
Louise Joughin, May Kelly, Belle I. Kirk, Paul
Lowe, Bessie Lindsay, Evander Lee, Hope Leitner,
Clarence Love, Maggie Lawler, John Miller, Char-
lie Miller, G. W. Martin, W. W. Martin, J. M.
Mitchell, Owen M. Newbold, Marvin Newbold,
Annie Norton, T. J. Pyles, Minnie Pyles, J. W.
Payne, Philip Rodregues, A. J. Russ, James W.
Smith, R. L. Sumner, Elwyn W. Smith, D. B.
Smith, Jr., Leon Steinmever, Annie Taylor, Willie
Tasker, Frank A. Taylor,' C. W. White, J. R. Wal-
ker, W. Gussie Vaughn, Genevieve Venable and
A. Willie Williams.

Students in the collegiate department were Sadie
M. Abney, W. J. Anderson, Charles L. Albright,
Lillie M. Badger, Fannie V. Badger, Ira Barnett,
W. R. Bartlett, Drusie Bedford, Alice C. Collins,
Bartley Corley, W. A. Cunningham, Arthur C.
Cobb, D. R. Crum, A. H. Cole, Mary Collins,
Joseph Durrance, Allie Dell, Erin Dunklin, Estelle
Dyches, Winifred Edwards, Jennie Fogg, Phil Z.
Fretwell, Willie E. Giles, Nellie M. Hall, Lucien
Hubbard, Nene Dee Herndon, E. W. J. Hardee, Mortie Harrison,  Belle Hicks, Mamie Janes, Fred
Kramer, George A. Kirk, Florence Lee, Avie B.
Lawler, Julia K. Lee, Robert E. Lee, Samuel S.
Lamb, Minnie A. Lord, B. C. Lawler, Carrie J.
Leavel, Annie J. Lummus, Gene A. Leitner, John
McKee, T. J. Mitchell, Willie McLean, Annie E.
Monroe, Daisy Moore, W. F. Norton, James H.
Owen, H. W. Penney, Ethel B. Partridge, Beulah
C. Pelot, Fannie E. Partridge, Joseph T. Pendleton,
James M. Piatt, Pierce G. Pennev, John E. Peper,
Philip Barker, E. T. Russ, Lillie M. Randolph,
Louise Richardson, Minna C. Steinmeyer, Bessie
W. Sessions, Loula M. Steinmeyer, Minnie D.
Stimson, Mary E. Shettleworth, LaGrand K.
Smith, R. E. Stivender, Maud Snell, Mary V.
Taylor, Tillie H. Tichenor, Fannie Vaughn, Loutie
M. Vincent and Annie L. Walker.

The class in theology included Joseph P. Dur-
rance, Phil Z. Fretwell, E. W. J. Hardee, T. J.
Mitchell, J. M. Mitchell, James H. Owens, H. W.
Pennev, D. B. Smith, Jr., R. L. Sumner, J. R.
Walker and Charles W. White.



MORE STUDENTS ENROLLED

"The Florida Conference College seems to have
entered upon a new era of prosperity, having en-
rolled this season a larger number of students than
at any period in its history," said John M. Pike,
chairman of the board of education, in his report
to the conference held at Monticello in January,
1891. "LTp to the present, 150 students are under
tuition, receiving the instruction of seven compe-
tent teachers. A large class of young men are
studying for the ministry, and one has applied for
admission to the conference. A new building has
been erected during the past year costing $1,200,
and the only debt now remaining on the college is
$400 on this new building. Unpaid subscriptions
amounting to $1,200 are now due, the payment of