James Munroe Canty was an American educator, school administrator, and businessperson. Canty was an acting principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1898 and is considered by West Virginia S
Photographic portrait of Canty, published in 1906
Machinery Hall Exterior Institute WV 1898
John Henry Hill was an African-American lawyer, educator, school administrator, and military officer. He was the second principal of the West Virginia Colored Institute from 1894 until 1898. West Virg
James M. Canty
…carve their own wooden rifles. In 1894, Canty also taught in the institute's literary department. In the early summer of 1898, the institute's principal John H. Hill resigned to accept a commission as a first lieutenant in the United States Volunteers. Following Hill's resignation, the institute's Board of Regents…
Portrait of Hill from the El Ojo yearbook (1923)
Fleming Hall at West Virginia Colored Institute (1910)
Courthouse & Monument, Bath, ME
2016 09 27 12 32 38 The Jefferson County Court House at the intersection of West Virginia State Route 115 and West Virginia State Route 51 in Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia