Soon after I entered upon the work Mr.Campbell said to me, in his fatherly way: "Washington, always remember that credit is capital." At one time when we were in the greatest distress for money that we ever experienced, I placed the situation frankly before General Armstrong.
Without hesitation he gave me his personal check for all the money which he had saved for his own use.

This was not the only time that General Armstrong helped Tuskegee in this way.

I do not think I have ever made this fact public before.
During the summer of 1882, at the end of the first year's work of the school, I was married to Miss Fannie N.Smith, of Malden, W.Va.

We began keeping house in Tuskegee early in the fall.

This made a home for our teachers, who now had been increase to four in number.