age, who building upon the foundation made by his
predecessors rendered unusually valuable service. Like his predecessor
he was a very good man and an enthusiastic worker. The people waited
upon his words, answered his summons to social service, and supported
him in his efforts to promote their general welfare. This is evidenced
by the fact that he served his community acceptably about twenty-five
years. He was succeeded by Phillip Jackson, who found the school
sufficiently well developed to necessitate the employment of three
teachers.

Not far away from this point Mrs. Emma Hart Brady opened a large
school at Kearneysville, in Jefferson County, in 1869. She was a
popular teacher for that day, used modern methods, and successfully
instructed 80 or 90 students there for two terms. This school today,
as it was then, is overcrowded and in need of better facilities.[16a]

Speaking generally, however, one must say that the education of the
Negro in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia today is, after all,
much more backward than in other parts. A good example of noble effort
in behalf of the Negro was given, and the spirit with which workers
should address themselves to the task was furnished by the founders
and graduates of Storer College, but they were not supported by public
sentiment among the whites of that section. Glancing at the map of
West Virginia, one can readily see that the Eastern Panhandle is
geographically a part of Maryland and Virginia, states which have not
as yet been converted to the wisdom of making appropriations to Negro
education equally as large as those providing for the education of the
whites. The ardor of the successors of these early enthusiastic
workers in that section, therefore, was dampened, and the results
which they obtained fell far short of the aspiration of these pioneers
to remake these freedmen that they might live as the citizens of a
free republic.

A mere glance at the Negro schools in the northern section will show
that these beginnings were confined to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
and its branches. There were not many Negroes living in the other
northern counties of the State. In 1878, Moundsville in Marshall
County welcomed a Negro woman, of Smithfield, Ohio, who taught its
Negro public school. She had a fair preparation and rendered valuable
service with the cooperation of such patrons as Mrs. Rollen, William
Love, and Thomas McCoy. Because of the small Negro populati