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Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
In 1860, Blanchard was named president of the Illinois Institute, a small college in Wheaton, Illinois, founded a few years earlier by Wesleyans. When Warren L. Wheaton donated his farmland to the college later that year, Blanchard renamed the school after him and it became known as Wheaton College.
Welcome sign. Wheaton College is a private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts.Wheaton was founded in 1834 as a female seminary.The trustees officially changed the name of the Wheaton Female Seminary to Wheaton College in 1912 after receiving a college charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ardent abolitionists founded Wheaton College in DuPage County just before the start of the Civil War, an era when calls for the immediate end of slavery and promotion of racial justice were often ...
Blanchard Hall is the main building of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Construction of Blanchard Hall began in 1853, and the building was completed in 1927. The building takes its name from Jonathan Blanchard, the founder of the college, and his son Charles A. Blanchard. The elder Blanchard sought to make the building a symbol of the ...
At age 65 Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College. Charles A. Blanchard (November 8, 1848 – December 20, 1925) [1] was the second president of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He succeeded his father, Jonathan Blanchard, to the office in 1882 and served Wheaton in that capacity until his death, in 1925. [2]
Jesse Childs Wheaton co-founded Wheaton College, a Quaker institution that also harboured fugitive slaves within the college community. [7] Warren Lyon Wheaton was elected to the legislature by 1848 as a Democrat and persuaded the railroad to locate through his settlement and encouraged other settlers to locate there. [2] [3]
Van Kampen was educated at Wheaton Academy in West Chicago and Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, graduating in 1960. After graduation he worked at Nuveen as a bond salesman where he was known as "The Charger" due to his ambition and drive. [1] [2]