Alonzo Church was the sixth president of the University of Georgia from 1829 to 1859. He also served as a Professor of Mathematics for ten years before assuming presidency. Upon his death, six enslaved people were bequeathed to his children.
Asbury Hull served as the Secretary and Treasurer of the University of Georgia Board of Trustees from 1819 to 1866. He also served in the state legislature as both speaker of the house and president of the senate.
In 1829, a group of Athens investors, William Dearing, John Nesbit, and Augustin Clayton established the Athens Manufacturing Company in Whitehall. In 1833, the same investors built a mill called the Athens Factory on the North Oconee River in the city of Athens. In 1839, the Whitehall mill was incorporated as the Georgia Manufacturing Company.
Augustin Smith Clayton graduated from the University of Georgia in 1804 and founded the Demosthenian Literary Society. He served as treasurer of the Senatus Academicus in 1808 and later as secretary. He served in the Georgia House of Representative in 1810 to 1812, the Georgia Senate in 1826 to 1827, and practiced law. Clayton enslaved a number of people who worked on his lands.
Augustus Longstreet Hull served as one of Athens earliest historians. After serving for the Confederacy, he attended University of Georgia and served as a trustee. Multiple academic works were published under him, including the "Annals of Athens."
"Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses and Essays" was the autobiography written by Lucius Henry Holsey, published in Atlanta, Georgia by The Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. in 1898.
The Board of Trustees was created by statute in the charter of the University of Georgia, and ratified by the Georgia State legislature in January of 1785. As originally structured, the Board of Trustees was one of two bodies governing the University, charged with the administration of the University's affairs.
