File:Calyx (1898) (14759061536).jpg

Identifier: calyxblue1898wash (find matches)
Title: Calyx
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Washington and Lee University
Subjects: Washington and Lee - History Washington and Lee - Students Washington and Lee - Student yearbook
Publisher: Washington and Lee University
Contributing Library: Washington and Lee University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
THE CAMPUS, SHOWING MAUSOLEUM OF GEN. R. E. LEE.
Text Appearing After Image:
pvcsibent Milliatn X^ne Milson. WILLIAM LYXE WILSON, president of Washington and Lee University, was born on May 3d, 1843, in Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia). He is thus by birth a Virginian. He is the son of Benjamin Wilson by his second wife, Mary Whiting Lyne, both of whose ancestors are closely identified with the history of their native county of King and Queen. Benjamin Wilson in early life moved from King and Queen to take up his residence in Jefferson County where he spent the remainder of his life, adopting school teaching as a profession,—a profession for which his excellent classical training well fitted him. The candle of life did not burn long for Benjamin Wilson; he died leaving to his widow an only child, William Lyne, a boy but four years of age. Mrs. Wilson devoted her whole energies rightly to rear and educate her son. He was first sent to a local academy in Charlestown. Soon master of all that his academy teachers could give him he entered Columbian College(now

Note About Images