# Fairmount College > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fairmount_College > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fairmount_College.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_College > Source revision: 1270960439 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American girls' school in Monteagle, Tennessee, US}} {{other uses|Wichita State University#History}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox university | name = Fairmount College | image = | former_name = Fairmount Female College and Fairmount School for Girls | motto = | established = {{start date and age|1872}}  | closed =
{{end date and age|1918}} | type = [Private college](/source/Private_college) | president = | address = Fairmont and College Streets | city = [Monteagle](/source/Monteagle%2C_Tennessee) | state = [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee) | country = United States | students = | mascot = | colors = | website = }} '''Fairmount College''' (1872 – 1917/18), also known as '''Fairmount Female College''' and '''Fairmount School for Girls,''' was an American [private college](/source/private_college) for [females](/source/Single-sex_education). It was located at Fairmont{{efn|This street spelling appears correct from current maps, even though it differs slightly from the name of the college.}} and College Streets in [Monteagle, Tennessee](/source/Monteagle%2C_Tennessee).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwoTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA125 |title=Anchora of Delta Gamma |date=1914 |volume=31 |page=125 |language=en |access-date=30 January 2024}} {{Source-attribution}} ==History== The institution was established in 1872 with the aid of John Moffatt, a Scottish-born temperance preacher and landowner.{{cite book |last1=Manning |first1=Russ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WT0UCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 |title=40 Hikes in Tennessee's South Cumberland: The True Story of the Kidnap and Escape of Four Climbers in Central Asia |date=1 December 2011 |publisher=Mountaineers Books |isbn=978-1-59485-402-6 |language=en |access-date=29 January 2024}} It was Moffat and business partner [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59c69c542278e73c826f3226/t/5a05f46f71c10b34e7a63463/1510339695667/MabeeHouseofMonteagle.pdf Oliver Maybee] who convinced Fairmount's first [headmistresses](/source/Head_teacher), Louise Yerger and [Harriet B. Kells](/source/Harriet_B._Kells),{{cite book |last1=Bratton |first1=Theodore DuBose |title=An Apostle of Reality: The Life and Thought of the Reverend William Porcher DuBose, S. T. D., D. C. L. A Series of Lectures on the DuBose Foundation, Delivered at the University of the South |date=1936 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Company |page=85 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEZCAAAAIAAJ |access-date=29 January 2024 |language=en}} to move their girls' school from [Jackson, Mississippi](/source/Jackson%2C_Mississippi) to [Tennessee](/source/Tennessee). Silas McBee, who later gained fame as an author and architect, became the principal of Fairmount College in the late 1800s. McBee turned the school into a church institution that might be "for girls what [Sewanee](/source/St._Andrew's-Sewanee_School) was for young men". The school ceased operations in 1917/18.{{cite web |title=Collection: Fairmount School for Girls Collection - ArchivesSpace Public Interface |url=https://archivesguides.sewanee.edu/repositories/5/resources/190 |website=archivesguides.sewanee.edu |access-date=29 January 2024}} In 1921, [Reverend William Stirling Claiborne](/source/Wild_Bill_Claiborne) and Dr. Mercer P. Logan founded the DuBose Memorial Church Training School (later, [DuBose Conference Center](/source/DuBose_Conference_Center)) on the school's former site. Fairmount College's papers are held in the University Archives and Special Collections of [Sewanee: The University of the South](/source/Sewanee%3A_The_University_of_the_South). ==Student activities== The school hosted an early chapter of [Delta Gamma](/source/Delta_Gamma), a general sorority, and a chapter of [Alpha Kappa Psi](/source/Alpha_Kappa_Psi_(sorority)), a now-dormant general sorority.{{efn|Not to be confused with the business fraternity of the same name.}} ==Notable alumni== Among its students, in 1910, the school hosted two of the [Soong sisters](/source/Soong_sisters), one of whom later became [Madame Chiang Kai-shek](/source/Soong_Mei-ling) and the other, [Soong Ching-ling](/source/Soong_Ching-ling), who married [Sun Yat-sen](/source/Sun_Yat-sen).{{cite web|title=Southeast Tennessee Tourist Association|url=http://www.southeasttennessee.com/www/docs/665.2722/church-training-school-in-monteagle-tennessee.htm|publisher=Southeast Tourist Tourist Association|accessdate=9 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003123646/http://www.southeasttennessee.com/www/docs/665.2722/church-training-school-in-monteagle-tennessee.htm|archive-date=3 October 2011|url-status=dead}}Chitty, Arthur and Elizabeth, ''Sewanee Sampler'', 1978, p. 106, {{ISBN|0-9627687-7-4}} ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{reflist|30em}} Category:1872 establishments in Tennessee Category:1910s disestablishments in Tennessee Category:Monteagle, Tennessee Category:Girls' schools in Tennessee Category:Defunct girls' schools in the United States --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fairmount College](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_College) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmount_College?action=history)). 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