OXFORD ACADEMY TEACHERS, 1822.
OXFORD ACADEMY.
The Exercises of this Institution will re-commence on the 6th day of January next.
The Trustees have much pleasure in announcing the employment of Teachers, of the first character and talents. They have at great expense and pains procured Mr. James D. Johnson, of Morristown, New Jersey, as Principal of the Male Department.
The Female Department will be under the immediate care of Miss Susan Mitchell, who will be aided by the Rev. Samuel L. Graham.
Mr. Johnson has been constantly employed in teaching for the last ten or twelve years, and the Trustees believe there is no man whose natural disposition, education, and experience, more eminently qualify him for that station. The following extract of a letter we trust will be sufficient evidence of the truth of our remarks.
"We, the subscribers, composing the Board of Directors of the Morris Academy, in Morristown, New-Jersey, cheerfully give our united testimony to the excellency of Mr. James D. Johnson as a Teacher of Youth. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College, a man of good morals, and a professor of Religion. He is a native of this town, and well known by its inhabitants. For several years he has superintended the Academy in this place, and has proved himself well qualified to manage a Seminary, and to instruct in any department in science. His plan of discipline we consider excellent, and his qualifications to instruct not exceeded by any man of our acquaintance. We do therefore most cheerfully recommend him as in all respects an excellent Teacher."
Wm. A. McDowel, Pres't,
Sylvester D. RU8SBLL,
Lewis Condit,
Stevens J. Lewis,
Directors,
Morristown, November 14, 1821.
Mr. Johnson intends settling himself permanently with us as a Teacher. Miss Mitchell is a Lady who has been connected with the Institution for the last two years, and is well qualified to teach the ornamental and other branches which will come under her more immediate care. Mr. Graham is a graduate of Washington College, Virginia, and by education, habit and disposition, is every way qualified for an Instructor.
Board can be had in almost all of the respectable families in the place, at $35 per session.
If talents and experience in the Teachers, a high and healthy situation in a pleasant village, cheapness of Board and Tuition, form any inducements, and have any claim upon the public, the Trustees natter themselves that this Institution will receive a liberal share of its generous patronage.
By order of the Board, Wm. M. Sneed, Sec'y.
Oxford, Nov. 24, 1821.
—Raleigh Register, January 11, 1822.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)