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Col. W. D. Fonville, left, with his son, Marion Yancy Fonville, and Marion's friend, thought to be Hermione Charlotte Bliss. Col. Fonville had an active career in academics. In 1916, Fonville, formerly president of the Missouri Military Academy at Mexico, Missouri, accepted the presidency at the Alabama Central Female College in Tuscaloosa, Visible in the background is the south entrance of the Old State Capitol in Tuscaloosa which housed the college. He started one of Tuscaloosa's first preparatory schools for men prior to their matriculating into the University of Alabama.
Fonville was born on October 14, 1849 and died on February 18, 1920.