HARRIS COUNTY, GA - History Academies ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Galileo ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1832. [missing title] ACADEMIES. 1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 3 HARRIS That John W. Cooper, William Griggs, Charles D. Kennon, James Smith and Jeremiah Hullum, and their successors, be appointed trustees of Union academy, in the county of Harris. HARRIS That J. J. Slaughter, Julius M. Mitchell, Wm. Mitchell, J. Hubbard and V. H. Walker, and their successors, be appointed trustees for Jackson Academy, in the county of Harris. HARRIS That George Osborn, James McGehee, Taliaferro Wells, Springer Gibson, Thomas Whitehead, John Pasmore and Absalom Biddle, be appointed trustees for Jenkins academy, in the county of Harris, and they are hereby authorised to remove said academy buildings from lot number three, in the twenty-second district, to lot number two hundred and seventy-two, in the seventeenth district, formerly Muscogee, now Harris county. NOTE: Absalom Biddle (also spelled Bedell ) Absolem Bedell died 1846 Harris Co. He married 26 Jan 1829 Talbot Co. Ga. Martha Augustus J.A. Dixon. He was the son of Abner & Rhoda Smith Bedell, Grandson of Absolem & Ruth Jackson Bedell of Greene Co. Ga. Researcher: Gerry Hill gerryinga@isoa.net 1837 Acts HARRIS Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That Calvin J. Beaman, Taliaferro Wells, Edmund Lyons, Wm. Heard, and Toliver Jones be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of Mount Airy Academy, in the county of Harris.