Fifty Years Of History Of The Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio 1844 1894

Author : W. G. Williams
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ISBN 13 : 9781331399889
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of History of the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio written by W. G. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of History of the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio: 1844-1894 The Ohio Wesleyan University was founded in 1844, It owes its location, if not its establishment at that particular date, to the famous White Sulphur Spring in Delaware. This spring had early attracted the attention of tourists and seekers after health. In order to accommodate these, and to encourage further patronage, two enterprising citizens, Judge Thomas W. Powell and Columbus W. Kent, erected in the year 1833, on a spacious lot, embracing the spring, a fine hotel, which soon became known to the citizens as the Mansion House, The waters were salubrious, and the locality healthful; and for some years the Mansion House was kept in successful operation. But the town of Delaware was not very widely known, and was not easily accessible; and it was, perhaps, too early in the history of the State to hope for large returns from a business enterprise of this kind; and, at last, in the Summer of 1841, Judge Powell, who had become the sole proprietor, concluded to abandon the attempt to establish a Western watering-place. The spring property being thus brought into the market, it was suggested by the Rev. Adam Poe, the Methodist pastor in Delaware, that the citizens should purchase it, and offer it to the Ohio and the North Ohio Conferences, jointly, as a site for a Methodist college. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.