 1834 - 1917 (82 years)
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| Name |
William Winston Fontaine |
| Birth |
27 Nov 1834 |
Montville, King William, Virginia, USA  |
- "Montville", King William Co., VA
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| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
2 Nov 1917 |
Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA |
| Person ID |
I7517 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
William Spotswood Fontaine, b. 7 Nov 1810, Yellow House, Hanover County, VA d. 1882 (Age 71 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Sarah Shelton Aylett, b. 24 Jun 1811, King William County, Virginia, USA d. 5 Mar 1875, Reidsville, NC (Age 63 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
5 Jul 1832 |
King William County, Virginia, USA |
| Family ID |
F2938 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Adelaide Burrows, b. 4 Jan 1838, Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, USA d. 28 Mar 1887, Independence, Washington, Texas, USA (Age 49 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Apr 1861 |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth Adelaide Henry Fontaine, b. 6 Jan 1873, Independence, Washington, Texas, USA d. 19 Nov 1916, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA (Age 43 years) [natural] |
| | 2. John Lansing Burrows Fontaine, b. 18 Jun 1868, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA d. 11 May 1913, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA (Age 44 years) [natural] |
| | 3. William Winston Spottswood Fontaine, b. 16 Mar 1870, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA d. 19 Aug 1939, Margate City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA (Age 69 years) [natural] |
| | 4. William Spottswood Fontaine, b. 27 Feb 1862, Richmond, Virginia, USA d. 28 Jul 1863, Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, USA (Age 1 year) [natural] |
| | 5. Mary Aylett Fontaine, b. 13 May 1866, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, VA d. 8 Aug 1933, Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (Age 67 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Marion Dandridge Fontaine, b. 10 Jan 1880, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA d. 10 Jan 1880, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 0 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F2895 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Death - 2 Nov 1917 - Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA |
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| Notes |
- http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffo6.html
FONTAINE, WILLIAM WINSTON (1834-?). William Winston Fontaine, school administrator and founder, son of William Spotswood Fontaine, was born at Montville, Virginia, on November 27, 1834. He was the great-grandson of Patrick Henry. He attended Rumford Male Academy and the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1859, and then taught mathematics and Latin at Pegram School in Richmond. He married Mary Burroughs on April 2, 1861; they had six children. During the Civil War qv Fontaine was a colonel in the Richmond Artillery, served at Seven Pines and at Richmond, was captured scouting behind enemy lines in 1864, and was released on parole in June 1865. The Fontaine plantation, Fontainebleau, was destroyed during the war, and Fontaine moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he established Spotswood Female Institute. In 1870 he moved to Texas to teach at Port Sullivan College in Milam County. He was president of Baylor Female Institute from 1871 to 1875, when he organized the Texas Female Institute at Austin. He was in charge of a boarding school for girls in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1880 to 1886, when he helped organize William Carey Crane College, at Independence, Texas; he taught there until 1889.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas (Chicago: Battey, 1889; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). William S. Speer and John H. Brown, eds., Encyclopedia of the New West (Marshall, Texas: United States Biographical Publishing, 1881; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978).
Note the above conflicts with:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/TT/kbt10.html
TEXAS FEMALE INSTITUTE. Texas Female Institute, a Baptist school in Austin, was established by William W. Fontaineqv in 1875 in the basement of a Baptist church. A new building was erected in 1876 to meet the need of increased enrollment. The institution had preparatory, academic, collegiate, and art departments, and many of the students became teachers. The institute discontinued operation in 1881, when Fontaine accepted a position with Baylor Female College.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Willie Madora Long, Education in Austin Before the Public Schools (M.Ed. thesis, University of Texas, 1952). Carl Bassett Wilson, History of Baptist Educational Efforts in Texas, 1829-1900 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1934).
The Texas State Historical Association, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Last Updated: February 15, 1999
Comments to: comments@www.tsha.utexas.edu
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