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Hancock County Bank - Advertisement (The  High School Idea, Vol 1, BSL March 1908)

Hancock County Eagle, (newspaper) Court Street (Ph 50, 55) Copies bound in the Hancock County Court House in 1989 were Jan 5, 1950 through Dec 30, 1965 except for the entire year 1952 which is missing.

Hancock County Mills - To be domiciled in the town of Waveland.  Manufacture of wool and cotton into all kinds of yarns and fabrics.  Buildings, lands and tenement houses for its employees.  This group may sell any of its property and make or exchange same for other property.  Capital stock shall be $50,000.00.  H. S. Weston, E. H.  Hoffmann, E. J. Bowers, J. A. Breath, J. T. Fountain, R.  Ruisich, J. B. Fahey.  Nov. 6, 1906.  (Corporation records Bk 106).

Hancock College

In 1992 Fred McDonald donated an original document to the Hancock County Historical Society.  It reads as follows:

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                                                                                                                       MEMORIAL

                                                                                                                                      of                                              THE TRUSTEES OF HANCOCK COLLEGE

                                                                                                                                      by

                                                                                               THEIR COMMITTEE,

                       A.R. ELLERY AND E.W. RIPLEY. _______________________________________

January 20, 1819

Read, and ordered to lie upon the table _______________________________________

WASHINGTON

                                                                       PRINTED BY E. DE KRAFFT.

                                                                                                                                      1819

                                                                                                                                   [103]

To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

Abraham R. Ellery, and Eleazer W. Ripley, in behalf of the trustees of Hancock College, situated in the county of Hancock, and state of Mississippi, respectfully represent:

That the legislature of said state, at their last session, incorporated the said College; and your memorialists, in pursuance of a vote of the trustees, pray for it an endowment of two townships of land, to be located in said state, of six miles square each.

  Here, perhaps, on ordinary occasions, the memorial ought to stop; but as the subject is important to the country situated on the Gulf of Mexico, it is hoped that it will not be deemed obtrusive, to unfold the causes and motives which have created this establishment.

  Congress are aware, that the population of this section of the union is heterogeneous in its character; France, Spain, and England have possessed, alternately, the several portions of the country; and it, at length, has passed into the hands of the American government, and become identified with the

American nation.  Each of these political vicissitudes, has left its traces upon the inhabitants of the same country, and implanted all the national varieties of people from whom they were descended.  Hence, in language, manners, habits, and institutions, there are no common standards, but all are marked with general diversity.  In this state of things, it is important for the national government, by a system judicious and conciliatory, to reclaim the elements of society from the chaos which surrounds them; to amalgamate them into a   combination with the American character; to impart to the rising generation, the principles of morals on which our social institutions repose, and to afford them the rays of intelligence, which can alone appreciate their worth.  How is this to be accomplished, in a region where public opinion is divided by difference in language and manners?  Where the sentiment of society is formed by no common institutions; and where the affections of a whole community are directed to no one object; as pre-eminent in science, and consecrated in morals?  It is admitted, that the task is difficult; but, consequently, the more glorious will be its achievement.  The path, too, is beset with fatigue, anxiety, and sometimes despondence; but it will ultimately lead to the happiness and welfare of a portion of the republic, which will operate, at some period, most powerfully by the influence of its example, its opulence, and commerce.

In view of your memorialist, the most important step to be taken to accomplish objects of such importance, is the endowment of a literary institution on the boarders of the Gulf of Mexico; removed to a convenient distance from the allurements of a great city; and adapted to the actual condition of the people for who it is intended.

In the quarter, the inhabitants are principally of two descriptions, who speak the French and the English as their vernacular dialects.  A course of education to form but one character, should be predicated on this circumstance: to conciliate mutual prejudices, and soothe mutual pride, the two languages ought to be taught in common to the rising generation; and the public seminaries of the country should afford in each the requisite means of instruction.  In this manner, before many years shall have elapsed, the young pupils will grow up with the same dialects, and an identity of character.  They will appear on the theatre of life, as members of the same community; they will press forward in one path, as statesmen, citizens, warriors; they will pant with the same hopes, and be actuated by the same feelings. Identified, as they would be, in manner, habits, and language, all jealousies will subside, and their prejudices become lost in the paramount character of American citizens.