Class Bench - 1937 - Kemper Military School - Boonville, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 58.278 W 092° 44.767
15S E 521992 N 4313622
One of three benches dedicate to a class around what use to be the quadrangle.
Waymark Code: WM1887A
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2023
Views: 1
County of school: Cooper County
Location of school: 3nd St., between Vine St. & Chestnut St., Boonville
Founded 1844
Closed: 2002
Bench Text:
CORPS OF 1937
"Boonville Boarding School was founded by Frederick T. Kemper in 1844, enrolling 50 students in the first year. The first building was begun in 1845, the school continuing with 50 or so students until 1856, when it closed while Kemper taught at Westminster College. In 1861 the school resumed, surviving the Civil War by becoming co-educational, but at the war’s end, it reverted to its all-male state. After Kemper’s death in 1881, Thomas Johnson became head of the school, converting Kemper to a military school, which by 1889 was called the “West Point of the West.” Enrollment at Kemper reached 100 by 1900, and by the end of World War I, it had peaked at 502. The junior college was added in 1923. Before World War II a building phase had resulted in a new stadium (1937) and Academic Hall (1939)