Notes on Wabash College in 1835

Description:	Concerning fund-raising and financial matters, President Baldwins arrival on campus, and organization of instruction. [1]. The editors of the N.Y. Obv. say of the Wabash college, This enterprise is one of the most important which has ever been presented to the attention of our benevolent citizens. The country on the upper Wabash 12 years ago was a wilderness. It now has more 100,000 inhabitants. Within twenty years from the completion of canals and other improvements which are now in rapid progress or soon to be commenced we shall probably see there at last one million people. What their character will be depends under God on the character of the literary and religious institutions which shall now be founded. We have conversed freely and fully with gentlemen most intimately connected with the Wabash College and have entire confidence that the concerns of the Institution are in good hands and that it will be conducted in a manner satisfactory to the friends of sound learning and evangelical piety. N.Y. Obv. Feb. 14, 1835.We were present at the meeting in behalf of the Wabash College, and were deeply impressed with the importance of prompt and generous contributions in the Atlantic States for the establishment of colleges and high schools of the right character in every great district of the newly settled parts of our country. All who attended, we believe, were entirely satisfied that the highest confidence might be reposed in the founders of the Wabash College. Three of the gentlemen present pledged themselves to the amount of more than 6000. New York Obv. Feb. 21, 1835.[2]. June 1835. Trustees purchase Qr. Sec. of Maj. Whitlock in order to secure the best site for the College edifices. See Financial History. Their first application to Maj. W. was for a donation of ten acres for the site. Then to purchase ten (10) acres No, gentlemen, I will sell you the whole Qr sec. at 40 dollars per acre, that settles it. The Trustees bot at $40 & secured the site.[3]. Oct. 10th 1835. One hundred acres of land in outlots offered for sale by the Trustees. - Crawfordsville Record. Sold on the 7th of November 1835 - to the amount of $9000.[4]. President Baldwin arrived with his family Oct. 15th, 1835.[5]. Land purchase of A. Whitlock 160 acres at $40 per acre in order to secure a better site for the permanent building. July 22, 1835. Contract concluded with Charles B. Naylor to erect a building upon the new site.[6]. The Board authorized the sale of the west lot of lands purchased of A. Whitlock. The sale to take place on the first Saturday of Nov. 1835. On the day of sale the land laid out in small lots sold very favorably, so that the amount of sales including of lots on the Dunn purchase was upwards of nine thousand dollars.[7]. Sept. 29th 1835. The Collegiate year so arranged as to have three terms, with two short recesses of a week or week and a half, And the principal vacation during the summer (R. A. p. 64)Agreement made with James G. Farr for the establishment of a garden on the College premises. Referred to the Pru[dential] Committee to mature and complete. R.A. p. 67.Manual Labor department referred to the Faculty. Edmund O. Hovey reports his agency at the East. R.A. p. 68.
Origin:	1835
Created By:	Hovey, Edmund O. (Edmund Otis), 1801-1877
Publisher:	Wabash College
Source:	http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15705coll36/id/46
Collection:	Wabash College - The Hovey Scrapbook
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Subjects:	Wabash College

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