Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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1 1 1 ryf i L. Jf BsB V ffPH ' K lRfll B l l I A Hi ory of Butler College At a meeting of the Disciples of Christ, September 29, 1848, at the Little Flat Rock Church in Rush County, the question was asked, Shall we build a college? The answer was affirmative and at a meeting in October, 1849. resol- ution was adopted definitely naming Indianapolis as the location for the proposed school. In the laws of the State of Indiana the reader will find the charter of the Northwestern Christian University, approved January 15, 1850. Familiar names appear among the incorporators : Butler, Goodwin, Hoshour, Hopkins. Jameson, Xew, Cole, O ' Kane and many others. ' ho of the readers of this can name the first faculty ? John Young, acting President, Xatural Science and Law : A. R. Benton, Ancient Language and Literature : G. W. Hoss, Mathematics and Civil Engineering ; J. R. Challen, English and Xormal School. The institution was authorized to issue stock to the amount of $75,000 at least. The fonnal opening did not take place until 1855, though the first Board of Directors was chosen July 14. 1852, and the second Board, July 11, 1855. The building for the new institution was on the corner of what is now College Avenue and Thirteenth Street. This was out in the country at that time. The campus eventually extended to Sixteenth Street on the north and the L. E. W. tracks on the east. The sessions were held for twenty years in the one building on this ground — a structure Gothic in character and a landmark in that part of the city. The period of the Civil War was a great drain on the college, for many of the boys enlisted. Some never came back. Joe Gordon, whose portrait hangs in the college chapel, was one of these. President Scott Butler went to the colors end served three years. The record was honorable then in that time of stress, as it was in the Great War, more than a half centurv later. (. ' ■z cntceu (2)