Samuel Wellwood Hughes

Life and Orange County connections

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1. January 1845 Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens a classical school for boys near Cedar Grove Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own academy in northern Orange County in January 1845. First called Cedar Grove Academy and later Hughes' Academy, it offered classical and mathematical courses modeled on the Bingham School and ran until his death in 1884.Search the index · NCpedia: Hughes, Samuel Wellwood
2. March 12, 1850 Samuel W. Hughes is named to Orange County's first board for examining teachers On March 12, 1850, Samuel Wellwood Hughes was appointed to the first Orange County board to examine teachers for the common schools. In February 1852 he was also appointed to the county Board of Superintendents of Common Schools.Search the index · NCpedia: Hughes, Samuel Wellwood
3. February 1852 Orange County seats a Board of Superintendents for its common schools under William H. Brown A nine-man county Board of Superintendents, chaired by William H. Brown, oversaw the common schools in 1852. That year a new state law obliged such boards to name committees to examine would-be teachers rather than merely allowing it. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 91
4. January 1859 Samuel Wellwood Hughes opens his own school near Cedar Grove After fourteen years as founder and principal of Cedar Grove Academy, Samuel Wellwood Hughes opened his own classical school five miles northwest of Hillsborough, its first session beginning on the second Monday of January 1859. He taught there until his death in 1884; the surviving schoolhouse, dated about 1862, was later moved to Hillsborough and restored.Search the index · DigitalNC: Hillsborough Recorder, January 5, 1859, p. 3 (Classical School advertisement dated December 10, 1858)
5. 1872 Orange County names a three-man Board of Education and a panel of teacher examiners Under the Reconstruction school law the county had a Board of Education of W. N. Patterson, J. T. Hogan and Jones Watson in 1872. Samuel W. Hughes and Charles Curtis were among the county examiners who licensed teachers that year. People: Samuel Wellwood Hughes, Jones WatsonSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 91
6. March 5, 1873 The Board of Education divides the 1872 school fund among the townships by race At its March 5, 1873 meeting the board named a teacher examining committee and apportioned the 1872 fund at the same rate per child for both races: $4,219.60 for 3,080 white children and $2,402.98 for 1,754 Black children across eight townships. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 28
7. April 22, 1882 The Mount Zion congregation buys an acre for its first church The Black congregation then known as Poplar Springs, which had met in a schoolhouse and on members' farms, bought a one-acre lot from S. W. Hughes and Margaret J. Hughes for $10. Its first church there was a small frame building with benches made by members. People: Samuel Wellwood HughesMount Zion AME Church, Hillsborough: Our History (church website)