This school supplies teachers for the public schools, and they are found doing good service in Sabbath schools and in churches, and everywhere.
ALBION ACADEMY.
The Albion Academy, at Franklinton, N. C., was founded in the year 1877, by the late Moses A. Hopkins, Minister to the Republic of Liberia. At the time of the founding of this Academy there were no adequate facilities to serve a liberal education in the community. Aided by friends at the North, the late William Shaw, of Pittsburg, Pa., and John Hall, and the First Presbyterian Church, of Albion, N. Y., the Academy was organized and established amid the strenuous efforts of bitter opponents to resist it.
The first principal of the school was its founder, the late Rev. Moses A. Hopkins.
Many young men and women have been sent from this institution to higher schools, as Lincoln University, Pa., Biddle University, N. C., Fisk University, Tenn., and Howard University, D. C., etc. The school is designed for the education of the many thousands in this section of the State. It is the only educational centre of the Presbyterian Church, in Eastern North Carolina, for the Negro race. It offers the benefits of a liberal education to the Negroes of the South, as well as the State of North Carolina.
Many friends in the North have given largely to the support of the Academy. There are three halls. The Stamford Hall, and the Darling Hall, are for the young ladies. The Academy Hall contains eight recitation-rooms and a chapel hall.
REV. JOHN A. SAVAGE, D. D.
After the resignation of Rev. Samuel S. Sevier in the year of 1892, as the principal of the Academy, Rev. John A. Savage, D. D., was called and appointed by the Board of Trustees to the presidency of the Academy. Since his government the Academy has taken a fresh start in every direction.
REV. JOHN A. SAVAGE, D. D.