Tusculum University

Varsity Sports — Pioneers

History & Fun Facts

• •In 1806, emancipated slave John Gloucester became the first African-American student to study at Greeneville College.
• •He was the first African-American educated by a college in Tennessee and later helped found the First African Presbyterian Church in 1807, in Philadelphia.
• •Samuel Doak left Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) and founded Tusculum Academy, on the present campus of Tusculum University, in 1818 with his son, Samuel Witherspoon Doak.
• •Doak, (acting) 1882–83 Jeremiah Moore, 1883–1901 Samuel A.
• •Coile, 1901–07 Washington and Tusculum College (W T) (1908–1912) Charles O.