This description of Georgia State Industrial College’s Scientific Department appeared in the Report of the State School Commission of Georgia to the General Assembly for 1895.
Georgia State Industrial College
D.C. Suggs’ Savannah.
Beginning in 1891, Daniel C. Suggs served as a professor and vice-president of Savannah’s Georgia State Industrial Institute for more than 20 years. These photos, taken circa 1890-1893, show some of the campus as he would have known it, and he was likely among the men and women standing on the steps of the building in the second image.
Georgia State Industrial College, Artwork of Savannah, Special Collections at Lane Library (Armstrong), Georgia Southern University, digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu
Trustees elect Suggs as officer and instructor.
Daniel C. Suggs was vice-president of Georgia Industrial School for Colored Youth and a member of its first faculty, teaching natural sciences. The school was the precursor of today’s Savannah State University.
The Atlanta Constitution, 2 September 1891.
Suggs appointed Vice-President of Georgia State Industrial College.
Roxboro Courier, 29 October 1891.
Daniel C. Suggs was appointed vice-president of Georgia State Industrial College in 1891. The college, established in 1890, is now Savannah State University.