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• The next two
years speak for themselves. Nathan was 12 years of
age when his father's newly built Male And Female
Institute opened its doors in 1872. With the help
of the 16 year old Clarissa, Nathan's goals were
more prominent than his brothers', and other
classmates. "You're the most un-teenager-like
teenager in the class because you're a young man
first," wrote Clarissa on Nathan's thirteenth
birthday. Even his older brother, Walter saw him as
the serious spokesman for the family. When other
boys were playing leap-frog and paddle ball, he was
worrying about, "where on earth were the coal, oil
and logs coming from" -- needed to heat the
school.
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One year later, in 1873, Capt. Billy married
"Clarissa." Nathan for the first time in his life
was embraced by a father's love to protect his
family's future. Capt. Billy commoditized all of
his cash holdings and assets, to create a formal
family trust for his family to draw upon or even
sell periodically, -- as they saw fit.
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The Stubblefield Family Trust cleared the way to
protect his State franchised school legacy, which
included his 85 acre real estate, the future home
of MSU, and his various property liens he owned
jointly with Governor Holt against several
defendants, (J. F., and Joseph Curd) to help
finance the school project's future. The trustees
included local Kentucky businessmen, and school
board member, John C. McElrath, W. H. Wilkins, R.
C. Linn and Kentucky governor Holt..
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One year forward, (1874), Capt. Billy, age 44, died
of consumption (pneumonia), leaving Nathan, his 3
brothers, Walter, William, James, and half-sister,
Alene, (1874-1954) -- under the guardianship of
Clarissa, and the Family Trust.
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What bothered the 14-year-old Nathan most about the
trust, was anything that threatened the educational
process and instructions of the Codes of trust
created by his Papa "Capt. Billy," -- was something
he and the other brothers should be paying
attention to, 24 hours a day.
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Part of the "Big Picture" Capt. Billy and Clarissa
had in mind for the boys when they got married in
1873, was to establish schools of higher learning
on the 85 acre family estate in Murray, that could
give diplomas and academic degrees to the locals,
without leaving Calloway County.
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With the loss of Capt. Billy at her side, Clarissa
found herself as the head schoolmarm at the
Institute. She clearly saw the direction Nathan was
heading -- to be like his father -- his forte being
natural sciences and the rules of law. Clarissa,
being the good stepmother, as she was, she
encouraged formality in Nathan's dress code.
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Fast forwarding ahead to 1902, the dress code
Nathan subscribed to, can be seen in the various
photos of Nathan in a Derby Hat and stiff colored
shirts, posing with his family, business
associates, and contemporary scientists. It was
Clarissa who helped Ada and Nathan establish the
opening of the Stubblefield Industrial School in
1892, -- along with the famous "Hello Rainey"
demonstrations, the world's first display of the
mobile wireless radio telephone broadcasts.
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After the Male and Female Institute was destroyed
by fire in 1904, the Telephon-delgreen campus was
established to take on both middle-high school and
NBS trade school students. With the help of Rainey
T. Wells , Judge Jones and Clarissa
Jones-Stubblefield, this was the first step towards
actuating the 85 acre NBS Institute into Murray's
first State Teachers College system founded by
Rainey T. Wells. MORE
MSU
STORY.
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Meanwhile back on the Stubblefield 85 acres, it was
in 1876, that Nathan's aptitude for the natural
sciences and invention was noticed. His science
magazine and electric magnet collection had
consumedly blossomed along with the grounded
blitzableiters energizing his watermelon and potato
patches. Anything and everything found in print
about soil enhancement, Thomas A. Edison's electric
light bulb and the recording of sound on cylinders
were neatly folded and creased together to become
bookmarks for future reference. The first Edison
recording of - "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was on
order for the schools library." It was also the
same year, 1866, Edison was hanging around
Lexington, Kentucky, and the year Dolbear invented
the first permanent magnet telephone/receiver
followed by an electric static (wireless) telephone
that could emit RF spark signals. SEE
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