 The debt on a new campus with five frame buildings, formerly used as a barracks for the Union Army occupying Atlanta, was discharged, and the school was renamed Spelman Seminary for Women and Girls in honor of Laura Rockefeller's parents.Packard was treasurer and president of Spelman Seminary from its charter in 1888 until her death in 1891.There were 464 students and 34 faculty at the time of her death.