Schools: Fort Jesup Masonic Institute, Sabine Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:  Robert E. Parrott, Knoxville, TN.
BOPARROTT@aol.com




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  Concerning the "Fort Jesup College" or the Fort Jesup Masonic Institute:
  The Fort Jesup Masonic Lodge (the Sabine Lodge) held its first meeting on 22
June 1848, and received its first charter (#11) on 16 January 1849, but it is
incorrect to say that the Fort Jesup Masonic Institute obtained its charter in
1849.   The Lodge, not the Institute, was chartered in 1849.  The Sabine High
School Society was formed on 5 May 1887 by members of the Sabine Lodge, for
the purpose of beginning an institute, but the Lodge and the Institute were
separate entities.  Trustees of the Institute were J Fisher Smith, president;
J M Franklin, vice-president, J H Caldwell, secretary, and members Leslie
Barbee, J H Tynes, J W Winn, L B Gay, F Jennings, J D Stille, W D Broughton,
and S T Sibley.  These men were technically tustrees/stockholders of the
Sabine High School Society
  The first diplomas were issued in June 1891.    The end of the Institute
itself  occurred on 23 March 1895, when  Professor Allen D Cardin (president)
resigned, and the public high school which was then organized on the premises
came under the jurisdiction of the parish school board. The fire in 1907
destroyed buildings of the public high school.
   Technically, the Institute lasted only during the years 1887-1895, but it
was recognized as a superior academy in the vanguard of the Louisiana academy
movement.
                    Bob Parrott    boparrott@aol.com.