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Prof. William W. Lundy, A. B., the successful principal and proprietor of the Elm Springs Academy was born in Grayson County, Va., in 1853, and is a son of Elias and Jane F. (Ross) Lundy, who were also born in Virginia. Prof. Lundy attended the common schools of Virginia, and at the age of sixteen years entered the Elk Creek Academy which institution he attended about five years, teaching school about two sessions during this time, to assist in paying his way. He then went to North Carolina, and afterward to East Tennessee, where he entered the Hiawassee College, graduating from the same in 1868. The following two and a half years he acted as principal of the Lansing High-school, and from there went to Texas, where be taught two years in the public schools, and two years was principal of the Gordonville Academy. His health became poor, and he came to Arkansas, locating in Bloomfield; where he spent about five months as assistant of the Bloomfield Academy. He then took charge of the Osage Valley High-school for one year, going to Golden City, Mo., at the end of that time, and teaching four months, as principal of the schools of that place. Since that time he has had charge of the Elm Springs Academy, which institution is in a prosperous condition under his able management. In 1867 he was married, in North Carolina, to Mrs. Barbara A. Goodman, daughter of Daniel and Nancy C. Burkett, and their union has resulted in the birth of five children: Roy B., Elmer J., Virgie A., Brunner E. and Harley S. Prof. Lundy is a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a stanch Prohibitionist.