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Excerpt from The Circle, 1930, Vol. 2 In 1873, because of financial conditions, the college was sold to Mr. R. F. Simonton, of Statesville, and for the next twenty-three years was called Sim onton Female College. From 1875 to 1883 M_rs. E. Mu Grant was the presi dent. She 'was assisted by her sister, Miss Margaret Mitchell. Upon the death of Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Fannie Everett Walton served as president for eleven years. After her retirement the property would have been lost to the Presbyterian Church but for the noble and timely aid of Rev. J. B. Shearer. D.D. He pur chased the property in 1896. Repaired the building'and secured Captain J. B. Burwell to conduct the institution, which took the name at this time of States ville Female College. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.