Saturday, August 25, 2012

DUNCAN HYDER SELPH Update

© Kathy Duncan, 2012


The internet has made it possible to discover new tidbits of information on an almost daily basis. Even better, they come in the form of primary documents. Below is a notice that ran in the New York, NY Evening Express in 1866. Rev. Duncan H. Selph was still in Danville, Kentucky, but thinking of opening a school specifically for orphan girls or daughters of Baptist ministers. Given that he needed $25,000 on the heels of the Civil War, it seems unlikely that he ever got it off the ground. Plus, he seems to have been at the Danville Female Academy after this date.