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40 was not done. The school suspended action until Bishop B. T. Tanner started it up again, hiring rooms at the Odd Fellows Hall and keeping the boys and girls in rented houses as dormitories. During Bishop Tanner’s administration, the present sight [sic] on Kings Road was purchased; no building was put on it until Bishop Salter came in 1908. Salter Hall was built, and for the first time the boys and girls came under our own roof since the destruction of the school by the fire. Rapid progress has been made since then; much valuable property has been purchased and paid for. The magnificent Pre-Centennial Building is a monument to Bishop John Hurst and the people of Florida.

Kittrell College, North Carolina, was organized under Bishop W. P. Dickerson (1886). The leading spirits were: Revs. R. H. W. Leak, Geo. D. Jimmerson, J. E. C. Barham, George Hunter, W. H. Giles, Henry Epps, Cornelius Sampson, W. H. Bishop, R. Lucas, J. G. Fry and W. D. Clark. This is the school for which Prof. John R. Hawkins obtained a large bequest from the Dukes’ estate. Bishop J. A. Johnson presides over this district and has raised large sums for the prosecution.