The hardy people among whom he took up his abode were able to appreciate his learning and religion as much as they admired his adventurous and indomitable temper; and the stern, hard, God-fearing man became a most powerful influence for good throughout the whole formative period of the southwest.

[Footnote: See "East Tennessee a Hundred Years Ago," by the Hon.

John Allison, Nashville, 1887, p.

8.] Not only did he found a church, but near it he built a log high-school, which soon became Washington College, the first institution of the kind west of the Alleghanies.

Other churches, and many other schools, were soon built.