Hugh Morson
1850-1925
Note: the marker above is on the Federal IRS building that now occupies the site of the Hugh Morson school. The inscription reads as follows:
"HUGH MORSON
1850-1925
NATIVE OF VIRGINIA
SCHOOL TEACHER
CO-FOUNDER AND CO-OPERATOR
RALEIGH MALE ACADEMY,
1878-1905
FIRST PRINCIPAL
RALEIGH HIGH SCHOOL,
1905-1920.
"A CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN
AND ACCOMPLISHED SCHOLAR."
HUGH MORSON HIGH SCHOOL,
WHICH STOOD HERE,
1924-1965
WAS NAMED FOR HIM.
Erected by Raleigh Historic Sites Commission, 1969"

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