Bethel Military Academy
{{Short description|School in Fauquier County, Virginia (1867–1911)}}
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Bethel Military Academy was a school near Warrenton, Virginia in Fauquier County.{{Cite web |url=https://fauquierlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Index-Bethel-Military-Academy.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-10-01 |archive-date=2019-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001222529/https://fauquierlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Index-Bethel-Military-Academy.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=budJAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Bethel+Military+Academy%22&pg=PA236|title=Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia|date=January 25, 1901|publisher=Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Purchases and Supply|via=Google Books}} It operated from 1867 until 1911{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTNRBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bethel+Military+Academy%22&pg=PA69|title=Warrenton|first=Kate|last=Brenner|date=January 25, 2014|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781467121675|via=Google Books}} and had several prominent alumni. The Virginia General Assembly passed a bill in 1901 incorporating the school. The bill included a requirement that one student chosen from each district of Virginia was granted tuition free admission to the school.
The 1896 Maryland Aggies football team played against Bethel Academy. Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternity had a branch at the school for a few years.
Buttons worn on a uniform from the school include the Virginia state seal of Virtus slaying the giant.{{cite web |title=Ridgeway Civil War Archive Buttons from Virginia, schools and academies....DRAFT..... |url=http://www.relicman.com/buttons/Button6625-Virginia-BethelMilitaryAcademy.html |website=www.relicman.com |accessdate=25 January 2020}}
Alumni
- John L. McLaurin, U.S. Representative
- Theodore G. Croft, U.S. Representative
- Charles W. Field, Maryland state delegate{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/distinguishedmen00unse/page/118/mode/2up |title=Distinguished Men of Baltimore and of Maryland |year=1914 |publisher=Baltimore American |page=119 |access-date=2022-12-08 |via=Archive.org}}
- Leon Lydecker Freeman, local mayor and former owner of the Freeman House Store
- Grenville Gaines, mayor of Warrenton, Virginia{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofvirg02barruoft/page/146/mode/2up |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |title=University of Virginia; its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni |volume=2 |year=1904 |pages=147–148 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2023-04-27}}
- Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. (1879–1973), American judge and mayor of Houston{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofvirg02barruoft/page/30/mode/2up |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |title=University of Virginia; its history, influence, equipment and characteristics, with biographical sketches and portraits of founders, benefactors, officers and alumni |volume=2 |year=1904 |pages=30–31 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2023-04-24}}
- Frank Owens Smith, U.S. Representative
- David D. Terry, U.S. Representative
- Howard W. Smith, U.S. Representative
- Lucien D. Starke Jr., president and publisher of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot{{Cite web |date=1931-08-01 |title=Col. Lucien Douglas Starke, Publisher of Virginian-Pilot, Dies After Brief Illness |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-virginian-pilot-col-lucien-douglas/158778448/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Newspapers.com |publisher=The Virginian-Pilot |page=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-virginian-pilot-col-lucien-douglas/158778448/ 1],[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-virginian-pilot-col-luciian-d-star/158780294/ 4] |language=en-US |publication-place=Norfolk, Virginia}}
Further reading
- The History of Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Virginia by Peter Bartow Smith University of Virginia M.A. dissertation 1945.{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Peter Bartow |title=The History of Bethel Military Academy, Warrenton, Virginia |date=1945 |publisher=University of Virginia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pkq-NwAACAAJ |accessdate=25 January 2020 |language=en}}
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