 1834 - 1917 (82 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  William Winston Fontaine was born on 27 Nov 1834 in Montville, King William, Virginia, USA; died on 2 Nov 1917 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. 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
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Birth:
"Montville", King William Co., VA
William married Mary Adelaide Burrows on 2 Apr 1861. Mary (daughter of John Lansing Burrows and Adelaide Van Benthuysen) was born on 4 Jan 1838 in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, USA; died on 28 Mar 1887 in Independence, Washington, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Elizabeth Adelaide Henry Fontaine
 was born on 6 Jan 1873 in Independence, Washington, Texas, USA; died on 19 Nov 1916 in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA.
- 3. John Lansing Burrows Fontaine was born on 18 Jun 1868 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 11 May 1913 in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA; was buried on 12 May 1913 in Oakwood Cem., Austin, Travis County, TX.
- 4. William Winston Spottswood Fontaine was born on 16 Mar 1870 in Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA; died on 19 Aug 1939 in Margate City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA.
- 5. William Spottswood Fontaine was born on 27 Feb 1862 in Richmond, Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jul 1863 in Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, USA.
- 6. Mary Aylett Fontaine was born on 13 May 1866 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, VA; died on 8 Aug 1933 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
- 7. Marion Dandridge Fontaine was born on 10 Jan 1880 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; died on 10 Jan 1880 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA.
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Generation: 2
| 3. | John Lansing Burrows Fontaine (1.William1) was born on 18 Jun 1868 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA; died on 11 May 1913 in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA; was buried on 12 May 1913 in Oakwood Cem., Austin, Travis County, TX. John married Elizabeth Rose Waggener on 21 Oct 1896 in Austin, Travis County, TX. Elizabeth was born on 12 Apr 1870 in Russellville, Logan County, KY; died on 9 Oct 1925 in Sherman, Grayson County, TX; was buried on 11 Oct 1925 in Oakwood Cem., Austin, Travis County, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 4. | William Winston Spottswood Fontaine (1.William1) was born on 16 Mar 1870 in Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA; died on 19 Aug 1939 in Margate City, Atlantic, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1900, Dallas City, Dallas, Texas; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Son in Law
- Residence: 1920, Dallas Precinct 26, Dallas, Texas, USA
William married Florence West Evans in 1897. Florence (daughter of Charles Evans and Sue D. Evans) was born in Mar 1877 in Caldwell, Burleson, Texas, USA; died on 21 Jan 1928 in Smyrna, Volusia, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
William married Mabel Kathleen Lawrence before 1920. Mabel was born about 1890 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 6. |  Mary Aylett Fontaine (1.William1) was born on 13 May 1866 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, VA; died on 8 Aug 1933 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. |
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
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