WKU Archives Bibliography - Glasgow Normal School

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History

Historical Facts of Glasgow Normal School

Citation: "Historical Facts of First Normal School of Glasgow and Bowling Green," Bowling Green, Kentucky Scrapbook No. 1, p. 52, Kentucky Library.

A writer in a recent issue of the Glasgow Times gives some interesting history of a normal school that was conducted in that city back in the Seventies.

It might be news to many citizens of Bowling Green to know that our two large educational institutions of which we are so justly proud, had a most vital connection with the Normal School founded first in Glasgow in 1874.

Among other historical facts leading up to the founding of that school the writer says:

"In 1874, Prof. A.W. Mell, fresh from the National Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio, came to Glasgow and took over the Urania College building and established the Glasgow Normal School. The Normal School at Lebanon was an innovation. Prof. Alfred Holbrook had originated this system of teaching and he and his methods of teaching were both under fire continually. Prof. Mell met with this same opposition in Glasgow. This system of education, as its name suggests, was something new and novel in Glasgow and old manners and established customs die hard, but the years have proved that this system is vastly superior to the old time one. In the Normal School, boys and girls were taught together, a course of study was arranged which greatly shortened the time required for graduation, the cost of tuition, board, books, etc., was greatly lowered and everything excepet [sic] the instruction was much reduced.

In telling more of the offers made by the school, the writer says:

"Text books can be rented at a small cost. A full corps of teachers will be employed throughout the term. New Classes will be formed in the ordinary branches, with special classes in surveying, bookkeeping, rhetoric and algebra. Special attention will be given to the training of teachers, in view of their work in the public and graded schools. Prof. J.C. Ridge, Cincinnati, will deliver a course of lectures during the coming term; thus affording to ladies and gentlemen the privilege of attending upon superior and skilled instruction in the art of elocution.

"Prof. A.W. Mell remained with the Glasgow Normal School for several years and did an excellent and lasting work. After he was joined by Prof. Tom Williams they decided to move to Bowling Green and establish a Normal School there, and the Glasgow Normal School passed into other hands. Out of the school established in Bowling Green came two very flourishing schools in that city today – the Western Kentucky State Teachers' College and the Bowling Green Business University.

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Glasgow Normal School Alumni

Citation: Typed list of alumni of unidentified origin, 1876-1906 found in UA95, combined with article by "Old Urania College," by E.B. Terry from unidentified publication and other sources in University Archives. The typescript list probably includes graduates of the Southern Normal School. The list below is for the years 1876-1890 which reflects the Glasgow Normal School years.

Adams, Lizzie 1884	Dinning, James 1886	Newman, C.C. 1879
Alexander, James 1885	Downs, J.M.N. 1886	Norris, Ed 1885
Alexander, Mollie 1887	Downs, May 1882; 1886	Owsley, Eugene 1884
Angel, Louise 1883	Eagleton, William 1884	Owsley, Lula 1884
Austin, John 1876	Easton, C.D. 1881	Pare, Ada 1882
Avis, R.K. 1884	Ellis, B.G. 1876	Peterman, A.L. 1882
Bagby, Anna 1876	Ellison, Eugene 1880	Pettingill, Bettie 1879
Bailey, Lizzie 1882	Eubank, G.H. 1881	Phillips, B.S. 1878
Baird, Virgil 1886	Eubanks, John 1878	Porter, E.H. 1882
Baker, Sallie 1882	Evans, W.M. 1885	Rachford, James 1883
Baker, W.M. 1887	Fawkles, Mark 1886	Ragleton, W.L. 1884
Barlow, Kate 1882	Ford, Preston 1877	Renfro, G.Y. 1880
Beals, Callie 1889	Fry, W.H. 1886	Roaten, W.C. 1884
Bell, J.F. 1880	Garner, Annie 1884	Robinson, Wallace
Bell, L.W. 1882	Gibson, S.F. 1882	Rousseau, I.L. 1885
Biggers, J.U. 1878	Gillenwater, J.D. 1885	Sanderson, Laura 1880
Black, Powell 1885	Guthrie, Emma 1879	Shepherd, Lula 1880
Bloomer, Margaret 1886	Hagan, J.M. 1882	Shepherd, W.W. 1879
Bohannon, Frances 1884	Hamlett, Mrs. Charles '76	Shipley, E.A. 1882
Booth, Eliza 1886	Hammer, Billy 1885	Shipworth, J.L. 1880
Booth, P.C. 1886	Hammer, John 1882	Sill, Charles 1886
Brents, J. Morgan 1880	Huddleston, A.A. 1887	Smith, Annie 1877
Brooks, James 1881	Imes, A.W. 1886	Smith, Burton 1886
Brown, Augustus 1886	Jones, Lillie 1879	Smith, Cleo 1885
Brownlee, Velona 1883	Jones, S.T. 1876	Smith, W.B. 1878
Bryan, A. Russell 1885	Kean, Cyrus 1885	Smith, W.S. 1885
Burchette, James 1886	Kelly, Dr. ? 1886	Snoddy, A.T. 1885
Burdette, Edna 1890	Leibing, Ella 1880	Snoddy, B.A. 1881
Burks, W.S. 1880	Loggins, T.B. 1886	Snoddy Bettie 1881
Bybee, Bettie 1876	Martin, Minnie 1882	Snoddy, H.C. 1878
Bybee, Rose 1885	Mayfield, Lizzie 1881	Spangler, Jennie 1886
Caldwell, Sallie 1885	McBeath, J. Mark 1884	Spear, Milton 1876
Carey, Dora 1885	McBeath, Theophilus 1884	Taylor, A.C. 1876
Chandler, J.L. 1884	McCrackin, Pearl 1885	Terry, Dora 1879
Childers, G.C. 1879	McCreary, J.R. 1885	Tharp, Mary 1884
Craddock, G. Porter '84	McCuiston, E.H. 1876	Thompson, Elizabeth '84
Craddock, William 1884	McIntyre, Tandy	Thompson, Stella 1884
Craven, James 1886	McKenney, Ella 1886	Tucker, Lizzie 1880
Crawford, J.C. 1886	McMillan, Benton 1886	Turner, L.W. 1885
Cummins, J.B. 1887	Meek, Fannie 1886	Unstatter, J.W. 1886
Davies, W.J. 1881	Mell, A.W. 1877	Venable, Lizzie 1886
Depew, George 1886	Mell, M.P. 1877	Watson, Sallie 1880
Devasher, D.M. 1886	Mills, Estelle 1876	White, John 1881
Devasher, George 1886	Mitchell, Florrie 1880	Wilborne, M.E. 1880
Devasher, Lela 1877	Murray, Captola 1882	Williams, J. Tom 1877
Dickey, Joseph 1881	Needles, Stanton 1886	Woodson, G.C. 1876
Dickey, Leslie 1882	Neighbors, Basley 1879	Young, Florence 1886
Dickinson, T.P. 1881

Articles

"First of Trades Days Papers Pays Western Tribute," Park City Daily News, April 27, 1936.

"The Glasgow Normal School and the Southern Normal School & Business College," Teachers College Heights, November 1931.

Glasgow Weekly Times

Advertisement, July 11, 1883, p. 3

Advertisement for Southern Normal School & Business College, August 20, 1884, p. 3.

Announcement re: commencement, June 28, 1882, p. 3

Announcement re: Mell setting up a school, August 17, 1874, p. 3

Biographical sketch of F.M. Malone, August 7, 1889, p. 2.

GNS 15th Annual Commencement, August 8, 1888, p. 3

"GNS Will Open Its 14th Session, September 3," August 29, 1878, p. 2

Kinslow, Gina. "101 Things to Love About Barren County - Glasgow's Urania Common School was WKU's Predecessor," January 12, 2004.

"Mr. J.T. Williams," September 13, 1882.

Documents & Primary Sources

KL Photo Collection #B2345

Gardner & Gaines Business Directory for Bowling Green, 1876-77, Bowling Green, Ky., 1876. KL 459.B7G3X

MSS 73 McElroy Collection, Series I, Box 1, Folder 7, 6th Annual Commencement Program

MSS 103 Malcolm Jones & Frances Young Jones Collection, Box 6, Folder 4, W.B. Smith grades and letter of reference; Box 8, Folder 5 Smith, Mrs. Basil, "Glasgow Normal School."

MSS 172 Bernice Young Collection, 1 Folder, Correspondence between Bernice Young and Jennie McKenney, 1889-1893.

UA94.1.1 Elizabeth Curd Tucker Scrapbook - digitized

UA94.1.1 Commencement Program 1877 - digitized

UA94.1.1 Commencement Program 1881 - digitized

UA95 Glasgow Normal School Records - collection inventory

UA95.1 Catalog - digitized

UA95.1 Special Announcement - digitized

UA95.1 James Cornette's History of Glasgow Normal - digitized

UA95.3 Commencement Program 1876 - digitized

UA95.3 Commencement Program 1880 - digitized

UA95.3 Commencement Program 1884 - digitized