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Negley, Daniel, 1860-61; Nelson, Minnie Stew- art, 1883-89; Nichols, Josephine, 1899; Nye, Fannie, 1856-57; Nye, Susan I., 1858; Nye, Helen E., 1868-73.
Page, Nora, 1866; Paine, Aurel, 1860; Palmer, Jane, 1860; Palmer, M. F., 1867; Palmer, M. L., 1868; Parkinson, Edward P., 1873-86; Parkin- son, Sadie E., 1877-81; Parry, Sarah, 1864-65; Peacock, Elizabeth, 1876-81; Peacock, Anna, 1877 -; Pearce, Grace, 1894-95; Peel, Luella, 1898 -; Perry, L. C. 1859; Phelps, Katherine, 1895-98; Pierce, Frank, 1890-92; Pinkerton, Joseph L., 1867; Pinkerton, Sarah M., 1867; Pinkerton, Fannie, 1901; Plummer, Ida, 1880- 82; Porter, John A., 1871-79; Prince, W. L. (music) 1896-1901.
Randall, J. O., 1864-66; Ray, Kate Curran, 1895-97, 1900 -; Reed, M. Carrie, 1873-74; Reed, Jennie E., 1888-89; Renwick, Evalyn, 1898-1900; Richardson, W. F., 1862-66; Robertson, Mrs. Lydia L., 1861-71; Robinson, M. E. L., 1867; Robinson, W. C., 1868-70; Root, Lura, 1867; Ross, Jennie, 1885-91; Rupp, Sarah C., 1861-64; Russell, T. Mc., 1862; Rulon, Araminta, 1868-71.
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Young, William S., 1866.
CHAPTER XXVI.
Monmouth College Established in the Spring of 1853 as an Academy by the Associate Reformed Presbytery-Rev. J. R. Brown in Charge at the Opening-The Buildings, Presidents, Faculty, Etc.
(By Rev. W. J. Buchanan.)
When Monmouth was a village of only a few hundred inhabitants, and the vast prairies all around were but sparsely settled, Monmouth
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College was conceived and came into being. For months the conviction had rested on the minds of many intelligent persons that the young people of the region needeu the opportunities of a better education than the elementary schools of those days afforded. In the spring of 1853 Rev. J. C. Porter, who was then pastor of the Cedar Creek Associate Reformed Pres- byterian church at Cedar Creek, a few miles northwest of Monmouth, called at the court house in Monmouth while court was in session. He announced to some of his friends in course of conversation that he was on his way to a meeting of Presbytery at Clayton, and that the question of an Academy or advanced school was sure to come up, and that if Monmouth cit- izens wished the school in their city they should in some way indicate it. A subscription paper for a building was at once drawn up and circulated, and within two or three hours $1,150 were subscribed for the proposed Academy.
The Presbytery considered the proposition favorably, located the school at Monmouth, and appointed eleven persons to serve as a board of trustees. Five were from the Presbytery, Revs. J. C. Porter, R. Ross and W. R. Erskine, with Elders John C. McCrery and William B. Jackson; and six from Monmouth, Dr. J. A. Young, James Thompson, James G. Madden, E. C. Babcock, A. C. Harding and N. A. Rankin. Among others who did much to advance the earlier 'interests of the school should be men- tioned Revs. Samuel Millen, Matthew Bigger, John M. Gordon and David MacDill, D. D., and Messrs. John Brown, A. Y. Graham, Ivory Quinby, John McClanahan, Thomas Johnston and R. B. Davidson.
The Academy opened the first Monday of the next November with twenty-one students, and Rev. J. R. Brown, a graduate of Miami Univer- sity at Oxford, Ohio, in charge as professor. The new building was not yet begun, and the school was opened in the Christian church, where the armory of Co. H now stands, and afterwards was carried on in the basement of the Presbyterian church on South Main street.
The school prospered with the growing town and in 1855 came the proposition to elevate the Academy to the rank of college. Arrangements were made for this, and on September 3, 1856, the college was opened with Rev. David A. Wal- lace of Boston, Massachusetts, as president. Dr. Wallace did not arrive until October, but the two professors, Rev. Marion Morrison and
Rev. J. R. Brown, set the new college in opera- tion. The new building was not yet ready, and the classes were heard in the public school house that stood on the present site of the Y. M. C. A. About November 1 the new build- ing was used for the first time, although not. quite finished. The first year was a successful one, ninety-nine pupils being enrolled.
The inauguration of President Wallace took place September 1, 1857, at the opening of the next college year, the ceremony being held in John Brown's grove in the southwest part of town, now the corner of South B street and West Fourth avenue, where the commencement exercises were held for several years. A pro- 'cession formed on the public square and moved to the grove, headed by a band. Rev. Jonathan Blanchard delivered an address on "The bene- fits and advantages of colleges and a collegiate course;" Rev. J. C. Porter gave a history of the rise and progress of the college; Rev. A. Nes- bit of Chicago gave the charge to the president- elect, and President Wallace delivered his in- augural on the theme, "The Claims of the Bible." From that time to this the Bible has always had a prominent place in Monmouth College as a text-book and the school has main- tained preeminence as a Christian institution.
ADMINISTRATIONS.
Rev. David Alexander Wallace, D. D., LL. D., remained president until January 1, 1878, having offered his resignation December 19, 1877. After leaving Monmouth he held a pas- torate at Wooster, Ohio, where he died October 21, 1883, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. The remains were brought to Monmouth, where the funeral was held in the college chap- el October 26. The portrait of Dr. Wallace which graces the college auditorium walls was purchased by the students early in 1878. J. W. McCoy made the presentation speech and Prof. Hutchison responded for the trustees and Dr. MacDill for the faculty. Miss Jennie C. Logue read an appropriate poem, and Rev. Russell Graham, then pastor at Biggsville, de- livered the dedicatory address.
After the resignation of President Wallace Dr. J. C. Hutchison, as vice president, adminis- tered affairs until September, 1878, when Rev. Jackson Burgess McMichael, D. 1)., took charge, having been elected in June, 1878. Dr. McMich- ael was inaugurated September 5. Rev. Robert C. Matthews, D. D., pastor of the Presbyterian
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church, made the opening address, the keys were presented by Vice President Hutchison, and President McMichael gave his inaugural on the theme, "The secular and sacred in educa- tion-two general themes touching the origin and destiny of man." In June, 1897, Dr. Mc- Michael resigned, and the affairs of the college were administered for a year by an administra- tive committee consisting of Vice President Mc- Millan and Professors Graham, Maxwell and Swan, of the faculty. After his resignation Dr. McMichael accepted the charge of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian congregation near Dayton, Ohio, from which he had first been called to the presidency, and where he is now enjoying a most happy pastorate. The portrait of Dr. McMichael hanging in the auditorium was secured soon after his resignation, the subscription for it being started by Prof. Swan.
In February, 1898, Rev. Samuel Ross Lyons, D. D., was chosen president of the college, and was inaugurated in June following. Vice President McMillan presided. Miss Blanche Morrow gave an address of welcome in behalf of the students, Major R. W. McClaughry for the alumni, Prof. J. H. Wilson for the faculty, Rev. J. A. Monteith for the college senate, and Hon. J. Ross Hanna for the trustees. The subject of President Lyons' inaugural was "The Christian College." Dr. Lyons resigned in June, 1901, and the administration of the college was placed in the care of Vice President J. H. McMil- lan as acting president for the college year 1901- 02. Dr. Lyons in theautumn of 1901 accepted the pastoral charge of a large and flourishing con- gregation in Richmond, Indiana. At the time this history is prepared the college is without a president, Professors Graham and Swan. act- ing as a committee of administration until a successor to Dr. Lyons is chosen.
BUILDINGS.
The first building belonging to the college was finished in the fall of 1856, soon after the college opened. It stood in the northwest part of town, on North A street north of Detroit avenue, on a block donated by General A. C. Harding. It was a solid brick structure, 40x80 feet, two stories high, and contained a chapel seating 300 persons and eight rooms additional. As late as 1876 it was used for classes of the Preparatory Department, and afterwards was used for a boarding hall by young men of the college. In recent years it was used as a fac-
tory by the Maple City Soap Works, but was torn down in 1901.
In 1860 Messrs A. Y. and David Graham platted the quarter section of land on which the eastern part of Monmouth now stands. They offered the college the choice of ten acres for a campus for a new college building, and one- sixth of the remainder of the quarter section, the proceeds of the sale of which were to go to the building fund. The gift was thankfully ac- cepted, the present site chosen, and the trus- tees proceeded to get subscriptions and erect a building suited to the growing wants of the college. In August, 1862, the lots donated by the Grahams were sold at public auction. The new building was ready for occupancy early in the spring of 1863, but the faculty refused to occupy it until it was free from a debt of some $3,800. This amount was finally subscribed and the building was occupied on May 12, 1863, and dedicated on Wednesday of Com- mencement week, June 24, 1863. The building was 50x80 feet, four stories high, and con- tained fifteen rooms (not counting the base- ment) suitable for college purposes. The brick were made on the ground. The whole cost was $18,500, all of which was raised by subscription excepting $3,360 realized from the sale of the lots donated by the Grahams. In 1876 there was finished an addition, 54x63 feet, four stor- ies high, containing a chapel and eight addi- tional rooms, besides the basement, and cost- ing $14,000.
In 1885 the Musical Conservatory which stands on the southeast corner of the campus was erected. It was used for several years as a home for the president of the college, but since 1901 has been used by the musical de- partment of the college. The janitor's house was erected in 1892.
On June 3, 1897, the auditorium standing on the southwest corner of the campus was fin- ished and formally dedicated. It cost nearly $30,000. In 1892 a handsome pipe organ was built in the auditorium by Misses Delia and Nellie Davidson. It cost when placed about $5,000, and stands as a memorial to their mother, Nancy J. Gaddis (Davidson), who was a graduate of the college in 1871.
FACULTY.
The faculty of Monmouth College has always been one of its strongest factors. Some col-
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leges can boast of the elegance of their build- ings, some excel in largeness of endowment, but the strength of Monmouth has always been in the character, the vigor and the consecra- tion of her faculty. The following have been connected with the school as professors and in- structors :
Rev. Marion Morrison, D. D., Rev. J. R. Brown, J. B. McCartney, M. D., J. T. Leidigh, H. H. Oliver, Rev. W. H. Blair, Edwin T. Barck, Miss M. J. Mutchinson, Rev. Alex Young, D. D., Rev. J. C. Hutchison, Ph. D., W. A. Thayer, M. D., S. S. Hamill, Miss E. J. Wallace, Miss Annie Stevens, Hon. R. W. Mc- Claughry, Rev. N. H. Brown, D. D., Mrs. L. G. Charlton, John H. Wilson, Ph. D., Rev. J. F. Morton, D. D., Rev. Norcross, Rev. J. C. Webber, Ph. D., Rev. A. M. Black, D. D., Thomas H. Rogers, Mrs. Thomas H. Rogers, Miss C. E. Tucker, D. W. McLean, Lowell H. Smith, Mrs. C. S. Kendall, Miss Mary Pressly, Miss Elizabeth J. Young, Levi B. Davis, Miss K. Ewing, Miss Linda Brainard, Rev. J. A. P. Mc- Gaw, D. D., Miss Agnes Strang, Rev. James E. Moffatt, Andrew McMillan, J. M. Martin, J. M. VanDoren, Rev. John A. Gordon, D. D., Rev. Alex Rule, Rebecca S. Killough, Rev. J. R. Doig, D. D., S. H. Price, Miss Arminia Watt, Mrs. L. A. Sneallie, Miss Elizabeth Caldwell, T. A. Blair, Thomas S. McClanahan, Miss M. E. Cleland, Rev. A. M. Acheson, Ed F. Reid, Rev. N. W. Thornton, Miss C. M. White, Miss Jennie C. Logue, Rev. David MacDill, D. D., Rev. G. I. Gordon, S. K. Crawford, M. D., J. K. Gowdy, Miss Lucy B. Duer, Miss Lizzie Scott, Rev. William Wallace, Miss Alice Winbigler, Miss Lizzie S. Gowdy, Rev. Edgar MacDill, Miss Emma Turnbull, Miss Kittie Hutchison, Miss Ella Wilson, Frank M. Weir, J. C. Mc- Michael, M. D., Miss Clementine Calvin. Dr. J. B. Herbert, J. H. McMillan, Lit. D., Rev. Russell Graham, D. D., Miss Oella J. Patterson, J. C. Bryan, E. C. Zartman, S. S. Maxwell, Ph. D., Elizabeth H. Glenn, H. C. Biddle, T. B. Glass, Martha A. Cooke, Mary A. Sterrett, J. N. Swan, Ph. D., Mrs. W. H. Sexton, Miss Car- rie Sipher, Miss Grace Woodburn, Miss Jessie Buckner, Miss Clinnie Hallam, Torild Arnold- son, J. M. Brosius, Miss Florabel Patterson, L. E. Robinson, T. Merrill Austin, Miss Katherine Hanna.
FINANCES.
The finances of a college are always an im- portant factor in its success. The large teach-
ing force that must be employed, the outlay re- quired for the running of a large plant, make the financial propositions among the most dif- ficult to be met. The names of Rev. G. D. Henderson, D. M. Ure, D. D., K. A. Wilson and Rev. Andrew Renwick, perhaps more than others, have been closely identified with the finances of the college. Since June, 1900, Rev. W. J. Buchanan has been the business manager and W. H. Woods the treasurer.
On May 20, 1862, Mr. W. P. Pressly tendered the college 712 acres of land in Boone county, Iowa. This tract was sold for nearly $5,000, which became the foundation of an endowment fund. On June 29, 1862, Hon. Ivory Quinby offered $5,000 to the endowment fund in case $45,000 more were raised. In October, 1863, Hon. A. C. Harding gave $10,000 to the endow- ment, and on August 24, 1865, President Wal- lace announced that the conditions of Mr. Quin- by's generous gift had been met and that the money he had promised had been paid into the treasury.
Slowly through these years the endowment has been growing. Some years ago the Alumni magnanimously came to the help of their Alma Mater. Mr. Joseph Mathers nobly willed a good estate to the college. The generous gift of James Law and Miss Ellen C. Law, through Miss Robertson, and the money raised to meet its conditions, have all helped smell the amount. On June, 1902, the treasurer reported the en- dowment fund at $212,256.59, some $20,000 of which are non-income bearing funds as yet. The policy of the college is to keep the endow- ment funds intact and inviolate. Not a dollar of endowment can be used for any other pur- pose whatever.
On account of the college being a charitable institution and so situated as to handle funds left for charitable purposes, she is the recipi- ent of many gifts, the income of which and the use of which are intended for the good of worthy young people seeking the advantage of a higher education.
GOVERNMENT.
The original control of the Academy from which Monmouth College grew was by a board of trustees appointed by the Second Illinois Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Presby- terian church. In 1855 this Presbytery ten- dered their Academy to the Associate Reformed
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Synod of Illinois, upon the condition that it should be raised to the rank of a college. The offer was accepted and the board of trustees was increased from eleven to twenty-four. This Synod had for its territory at that time the State of Illinois "and northward and west- ward," in fact, the whole northwest.
After the consummation of the union con- stituting the United Presbyterian Church, the care and supervision of the college passed to the Synod of Illinois of that body. Since that time the Synods of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Second Synod, including the territory of Indiana and western Ohio, have been iden- tified with the maintenance and control of the college. The Presbyteries also of LeClaire, Keo- kuk and Cedar Rapids in Iowa and the Alumni Association have shared the responsibilities of the college.
The college was incorporated February 16, 1857, the corporate powers being vested in a board of trustees. On March 12, 1869, the charter was amended, vesting the corporate powers in a Senate, which consists of directors chosen outside of Monmouth, and trustees, who compose the local board of control. The Sen- ate, composed of directors and trustees con- vened in joint session, meets annually. The trustees meet monthly.
The college is at present under the control of the Synods of Illinois and Nebraska; the Sec- ond Synod (Ohio and Indiana); the Presby- teries of Keokuk, Cedar Rapids and LeClaire, Iowa, and the Alumni Association of the col- lege. As will be noted, the control is denomin- ational, but it is not sectarian. There are at present members of at least four denominations on the board of trustees. There are members of the different denominations in the faculty, and it is the policy of the college, as far as practicable, to keep in touch through its board of trustees and faculty with all the different de- nominations. Monmouth College is a Christian school, whose purpose it is to do all the good possible for as many people as possible. The school has always been patronized by a large number of students from different denomina- tions.
LITERARY WORK.
The efforts of Monmouth College have always been strongly put forth along literary lines. One of her great aims is to encourage students to become clear, strong, right hearted thinkers,
fine vigorous writers, and winning, effective speakers.
The first literary society of the college was called the Erodelphian. It was soon found that a neighboring college had a literary society of the same name, and it was determined to change the name, and Philadelphian was chosen. Soon after, two literary societies were formed, and the name Eccritean was given to the new one. These were both organized dur- ing the first year of the college, and the first contest between the two societies was held in the college year 1857-58. This annual contest of the two societies has been continued with slight exceptions ever since, the two societies sharing about equally in the decision of the judges.
In 1880-81, during an interval of these friend- ly competitions, the Philadelphian society con- tested with the Adelphian society of Knox Col- lege, and the Philos carried off six of the ten possible points. A few months later the Eccri- teans held a similar contest with the Philo- mathean society of the Iowa Wesleyan college at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and came home also with laurels, having won every point.
In the fall of 1857 the Amateurs des Belles Lettres society for ladies was formed, and in 1862, the Aletheorian, also for ladies. In March, 1865, these two societies held their first con- test. These contests continued until 1885.
For a time the Ciceronian and Excelsior lit- erary societies among preparatory students, flourished.
Monmouth College has always been identified with the Illinois State Inter-Collegiate Contest Association, having a number of times carried off the first prize and the honor of representing the State in inter-state contests. In 1880, J. S. E. Erskine, now a Presbyterian minister in New York State, won first place in the State contest over William Jennings Bryan, now of Nebraska, who represented Illinois College and took second place. The first inter-collegiate oratorical contest in which Monmouth took part was held in Galesburg in February, 1874. The colleges represented were Monmouth, Knox, Chicago University, Beloit (Wisconsin), Iowa State University, Iowa College, Wiscon- sin State University and Illinois Industrial University at Champaign. A. G. McCoy was Monmouth's orator and took fourth place, Chi- cago being first.
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COLLEGE PAPERS.
The Monmouth College Clipper was launched in June, 1867. It was issued four times and then the name changed to the Monmouth Col- lege Courier. This paper issued its last num- ber in September, 1889. The Collegian began in June, 1881, and continued until October, 1889, when it was consolidated with The Courier and the new paper was called The Annex, the first number appearing in October. This paper ended its career in 1894, and December 6, 1894, the first number of the Ravelings appeared. It continued monthly until June, 1896, since which time it has put in an annual appearance, being edited by the Junior class of the college. In October, 1896, The Oracle appeared and has since been published as a semi-monthly. These papers have all been in charge of different or- ganizations of students, and have both devel- oped literary ability among the students and greatly promoted a college spirit.
GREEK FRATERNITIES.
Among literary organizations at one time in Monmouth College these associations held a prominent place. The Phi Delta Thetas, the Sigma Chis, the Phi Kappa Psis among the gentlemen, and the A, the I. C., the Kappa and the L. M. societies among the ladies, all had chapters in the college. In 1877, however, the college authorities prohibited Greek let- ter societies and the charters of the local chap- ters were returned.
STUDENTS.
The whole number of graduates of the col- lege is 1,161, of whom 144 have passed beyond the tide. Of matriculates and undergraduates the number reaches 10,000. In 1857 the first catalogue gave the attendance as ninety-nine. In 1867 it was 367; in 1877, 349; in 1887, 304; in 1897, 291, and in 1902, 358. The average at- tendance for the forty-six years has been 302.
Of the graduates of the college 137 entered business life, eighty-one became lawyers, 288 entered the ministry, 124 have devoted their lives to teaching, seventy-three ministered to the world as physicians, fourteen sit at editor- ial desks, and twelve at least have gone as foreign missionaries. Thirty-two of the alumni are professors in colleges and State schools, 765-6
six have served terms as college presidents, two as professors in theological seminaries, and ten are in the service of the United States gov- ernment.
MEMORABLE MENTION.
About 180 of the officers and students of the college enlisted in the Union army auring the war of the Rebellion. Among the companies organized at Monmouth was one called the "Cadet Blues." This was composed of college boys, and was commanded by R. W. McClaughry (now Major McClaughry), who had graduated from the college in 1860, but it never got to the front as an organization.
The Christian Union, the students' Christian organization of the college, was dissolved March 4, 1901, and on March 25 the Christian forces were reorganized under the auspices of Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. work.
The whole number of honorary degrees con- ferred by the college has been 106, all but thirty of which have been degrees of Doctor of Divin- ity. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred four times, and ten post graduate pro merito degrees have been conferred.
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