Abstract Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended Lincoln to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior college...

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Mary Lou Thomson Treese was a 1944 graduate of Berea College.  She was the daughter of Edith Ellis Thomson and Dr. A. Eugene Thomson who both attended Berea and whose father's both taught at Berea.  Dr. A. Eugene Thomson served as the first President of Lincoln Institute of Kentucky.