YOUNG EDUCATOR AT TALLAHASSEE


Miss Nash lives in Jacksonville now at the home of John Nash
Whitfield. Another of the bridesmaids was Miss Annie Malone.
 "Dr. William Carter, rector of the Episcopal Church, per-
formed the ceremony. I remember that the improvised altar
was the old nursery fender, set up near the big fireplace. Smi-
lax, moss and water lilies were in profusion."
 Professor Murphree and his bride left at once on a honey-
moon trip in a private railroad car, furnished by Professor
Murphree's newly acquired father-in-law. Mr. Wm. V. Knott,
present state auditor and a lifelong friend of Dr. Murphree,
remembers being in Baldwin when the train carrying the pri-
vate car with the bridal party, passed through on the way to
Jacksonville and thence north.
 "I waved my hand at the party anyhow," Mr. Knott says
with a twinkle.
 The honeymoon was spent in Tate Springs, Tennessee.
They were gone about three weeks. Then they came back
and took up their abode in the Henderson home.
 Another school year was begun in September and it
brought a big promotion to Professor Murphree.
 A vacancy had occurred in the office of the President of the
College. Professor Murphree seemed to be the logical man to
fill it. Accordingly, at the age of 27, young, robust, and full
of health, Albert A. Murphree was appointed President of the
Florida State College. He had begun his administrative ca-
reer in the educational field that was to lead him to nation-
wide recognition.
 The Florida State College at that time was co-educationaL
Florida's college system in that day consisted of a number of
co-educational institutions, the two oldest of which were the
College at Tallahassee, established in 1856, and the East Flor-
ida Seminary, founded four years earlier in 1852 at Gaines-
ville. There was also the Florida Agricultural College at
Lake City which had been established in 1884; the State Nor-
mal School at DeFuniak Springs; the South Florida Military
College at Bartow; and the Florida Agricultural Institution in
Osceola County.
 The college at that time consisted of three buildings. The
old administration building, which was torn down a few years