Identifier: 10393944.265.emory.edu
Title: Holston Methodism (electronic resource): from its origin to the present time
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Price, R. N. (Richard Nye), b. 1830
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Holston Conference Methodist Church Methodist Church
Publisher: Nashville : Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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moral con-duct in its preachers. At this session a paper from Mr. Alexander Ken-nedy, of Blount County, Tenn., was presented to theConference, in which the Conference was requested toappoint a board of trustees to receive from him a do-nation creating a fund the interest of which shouldbe applied to the needs of the Conference. The amountwas not yet denned in the mind of the donor, but itwas stated that it should not be less than two thou-sand dollars. The Conference accepted the donationand appointed to take charge of the fund a board oftrustees consisting of E. F. Sevier, Samuel Patton,and the Hon. S. B. Boyd. This was the origin ofwhat was for a long time known as the Kennedy Fund. The following were elected delegates to the nextGeneral Conference: Samuel Patton, E. E. Wiley, Wil-liam Hicks, Timothy Sullins, Daniel B. Carter, andJames Atkins. Alternates: T. K. Catlett and DavidFleming. The Conference requested the appointment of John4H. Brunner to Hiwassee College. If I am not mis-
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CONFERENCES OF 1852 AND 1853. I49 taken, this is the first mention in the Minutes of thisinstitution. How came there to be a Hiwassee Col-lege ? It was not premeditated or planned. Dr. Gib-son, a Presbyterian, was teaching a growing school onFork Creek, Monroe County, Tenn.; and failing to getboarding places for his students, he applied to the trus-tees of the Bat Creek Camp Ground for liberty to oc-cupy- the camps as dormitories for his boys and theframed church as a schoolhouse. Here the school wasat work in 1849, when Dr. Brunner first l^iew it andwhere by invitation he made an address in favor oferecting what is now the old brick building. Therewas then no talk or desire to have the school a secta-rian affair. Such a proposition would have been fatalto the enterprise. All subscriptions were taken for anondenominational institution. The college buildingwent up, the school was organized in 1849, and a char-ter was granted by the Legislature January 23, 1850.By that charter the colle

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