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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 58: beginning of Howard University (search)
tal, and was a benevolent and scholarly man, came together at the house of Mr. A. Brewster, on K Street, Washington. There had been two or three of such informal meetings, consisting mainly of residents of Washington, when Senators Wilson and Pomeroy, B. O. Cook, Member of the House, and myself were invited to this respectable self-constituted council, November 20, 1866. Nearly all of the dozen or more gentlemen who were present, and among them Rev. Dr. C. B. Boynton, the pastor of the Conry board, the project of an institution which should have many separate departments acting together under one board of trustees. At this January sitting, an important committee was named to obtain a charter. It consisted of Senators Wilson and Pomeroy and Hon. B. C. Cook; and in anticipation of funds, General George W. Balloch was elected treasurer of the university. The institution had already stepped up into the dignity of another name, to wit: Howard University. I had, during the discuss
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 59: institutions of the higher grade; the Barry Farm (search)
under the laws governing me, to use the funds in question, except perhaps the constitutional one of purchasing land. So I consulted the second comptroller of the Treasury, who agreed with me. I even ventured to interview Chief Justice Chase on the subject. He was kind and approachable and freely advised me in the premises. He said: Without doubt, General Howard, you can use your funds in the way you propose. At last, April 3, 1867, I issued a special order, transferring $52,000 to S. C. Pomeroy, J. R. Elvans, and O. O. Howard as trustees; the amount to be held in trust for three normal collegiate institutions or universities, embracing the education of refugees and freedmen; the institutions to be incorporated: one located in the District of Columbia, one in the State of Virginia, and the third in the State of North Carolina. The order also authorized the investment of the money, so transferred, in land with a view of relieving the immediate necessities of a class of poor col
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
kett, George E., I, 64, 244, 331, 421, 435, 438, 439; II, 177. Pickett, Miss, Jennie, I, 64. Pickett's Mill, Battle of, I, 550-570. Pierce, Ebenezer W., I, 140. Pine Top, Battle of, I, 563. Piper, Alexander, II, 548. Pleasonton, Alfred, I, 76, 272, 279, 280, 282, 285, 302, 312, 318, 350, 352, 356, 374, 379, 383, 384, 388, 389, 398, 445, 449. Pocataligo, S. C., II, 103. Polk, Leonidas, I, 602, 609, 518, 528, 533, 534, 539, 642, 643, 551, 663, 564, 678, 604; 11, 26. Pomeroy, S. C., II, 395, 397, 419. Pomphrey, Mr., I, 209. Pope, John, I, 256-266, 268, 269; II, 450. Porter, Andrew, , 155, 169. Porter, A. Toomer, II, 123, 124, 339. Porter, D. D., II, 154. Porter, Fitz John, I, 96, 172. 216, 217, 227, 228, 262, 264, 265, 272, 277, 289, 303, 305, 311, 312, 370. Porter, Horace, II, 567. Portland, Oregon, II, 468-484. Posey, Carnot, 1, 361, 369. Potter, Capt., II, 608. Potts, B. F., II, 9, 138. Prestman, Stephen W., I, 567. Prochet, Ro