PEOPLE

PEOPLE

Students, Instructors, & Principals

Green River Academy’s history includes nearly a century of graduates and instructors.

Above: Green River Academy Class of 1888

STUDENTS BY YEAR

List includes documented and known students. Do you have information about a Green River Academy student?
Please let our historians know by emailing info@greenriveracademy.com

1840

  • Amanda Ayers

  • M.S. Grubbs

 

1850

  • Fidelia Livermore

    Graduated May 1st, 1850

1852

  • L. J. Arnold (f)

1855

  • D. Ella Beauchamp

  • Kate Mariam Knight

186?

  • Edwards Gray McLean

1879

  • James Clark McReynolds: (Vanderbilt & University of Virginia) United States Supreme Court Justice

YEAR UNIDENTIFIED

  • Judge Willis Long Reeves: (Yale University) Kentucky State Legislator & Louisville & Nashville Railroad Attorney

  • John C. Reeves: (Yale University)

  • Charles B. Goodman: First Lieutenant United States Army

INSTRUCTORS & PRINCIPALS

Green River Academy’s success was primarily due to the drive of its instructors and principals to provide a rigorous education that ensured a student’s success.

(Joseph Nelson Loughry and his wife, Adrianna Brown.)

1836

  • Mrs. Sarah K. P. Failes

 

UNKOWN

  • J.R. Curry

  • William Dickey & Wife

  • Reverend Williams

1850

  • Lucinda H. Dickey (Principal)

  • Willis L. Reeves (President)

INSTRUCTORS BY YEAR

List includes documented and known students. Do you have information about a Green River Academy student? Please let our historians know by emailing info@greenriveracademy.com

 1854

  • Joseph Nelson Loughry
    (1854-1858)

 

1857

  • James Marshall Gill, D.D. (School opened to both sexes)

 

1861

  • Professor Mariner 

 

UNKNOWN

  • Lofland

  • Williams

  • J.W. Hester

  • Hendrick

  • Reverend Gill

  • Aaron Williams Fuqua
     ( Union University, Phi Gamma Delta)

1879

  • Major Robert Crumbaugh (West Point Academy)

 

1884

  • Professor H. O. Snow & Wife (85 in attendance)