Arthur S. Colyar Biographical Files

An amusing incident occurred at this service. A worshipping the congregation had never before seen a minister in his ministerial robes. When Dr. Quintard got up into the judge's stand in the Court House and began his service, a respectable, honest old shoemaker who had gone to the service was seen to get up and motion to his daughter and leave the house. When asked, after the service, why he did so, his reply was, that although he was ignorant and had never seen much of the world and didn't know much, that his children had been too well raised to see a man preach in his night clothes.

Soon after this time, the first class was confirmed by Dr. Quintard in Winchester. The hidebound Puritanical blue stocking ideas of that day were very much more pronounced than they are now. Dr. James R. Graves, one of the leading Baptist divines of that day, publisher of the Baptist Reflector, and a man who had the great controversy with Parson Brownlow, heard of Bishop Quintard's doctrinal sermon as he called it, and at once advertised the fact extensively that on a certain Sunday he would reply to Dr. Quintard's sermon. An immense audience was assembled in the Mary Sharp College at Winchester, which was then conducted by his brother, Rev. Z. C. Graces as a Baptist Female School. Dr. Graves spoke four hours and ten minutes, making a very violent and denunciatory speech, to which Dr. Quintard paid no attention, and there the incident dropped.

After the close of the Civil War, I became over of the Sewanee Mines and commenced the work of rebuilding and rehabilitating it's property, and right here I went to bring charge of larceny against the University of the South. One of the first things I did was to attempt to get the name of Tracy City changed to Sewanee, for the reason that it had been chartered as the Sewanee Mining Company - the coal had been named Sewanee Coal, and the mines were known as the Sewanee Mines, and we thought, very properly, that the name of the place should be Sewanee. When we applied to the Post Office Department for a change of the name from Tracy City to Sewanee, we were advised that there was already one Sewanee in Tennessee, and that we could not get the