In 1891, Charles T. Farrar and Frank R. Tate purchased a closed resort hotel in Sweet Springs and established Marmaduke Military Academy to "develop soldier-like qualities and to make capable men."
The salt and sulphur springs in Saline County, Missouri attracted cadets and vacationers to the small town.
He would go on to have a distinguished legal career and was at the time of his early death, a Circuit Court Judge.
The owners chose not to rebuild, but instead sold their assets to Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri.
[1][2] Among the Marmaduke faculty who moved on to Wentworth was bandmaster E. J. Stark, later to become a noted ragtime composer.