Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Methodist universities and colleges; Buckhannon (W. Va.); West Virginia Wesleyan College
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Origin Information
1905-03-27
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
digitized microfilm
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 77
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
West Virginia Wesleyan College was founded in 1890 by the West Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The school opened on September 3, 1890, in a new three-story brick building that was where the current Lynch-Raine Administrat ion Building now stands. Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology alumnus Bennett W. Hutchinson was the college's first president. Following ten years focusing on college preparatory work, college-level instruction was first offered in 1900 culminating in the first baccalaureate degrees in 1905. For one year the institution was named Wesleyan University of West Virginia but it was quickly changed to West Virginia Wesleyan College in honor of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Pre-college instruction continued until 1923 when it was discontinued because the high schools in the state had grown enough to adequately perform that task." [SOURCE: "West Virginia Wesleyan College." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Wesleyan_College. Accessed 21 Aug. 2018.]
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University