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HISTORY OF MARYVILLE COLLEGE JU ARYVILLE COLLEGE was founded in 1819. In the ' fall of that year Rev. Isaac Anderson, D.D., gathered a class of five, and the work of educating at Maryville was fairly begun. The genesis of Maryville College was the demands of the community realized. The demands of the Scotch-Irish com- munity was for a school where men native to the soil might be educated for the ministry. In the spirit of prayer Dr. Anderson commenced the educating of such men. In the spirit of prayer the work has gone on — educating men and women to the higher life, to the higher duty, which is the ministry unto the world. For forty-two years the work went on. One hundred and fifty men were made ministers of the gospel, and an endowment of sixteen thousand dollars was gathered together and fifty men were made ministers of the gospel, and an en- (4) dowment of sixteen thousand dollars was gathered together little by little. Then came the Civil War, and for five years the work of the institution was suspended, and the institution itself was threatened with complete destruction. When the war was at last ended, the Synod of Tennessee resolved to revive Maryville College. Sixty-five thousand dollars were secured at once. In 1881 one hundred thou- sand dollars were contributed as an endowment by a few loyal friends — William Thaw. William E. Dodge, Pre- served Smith, Dr. Sylvester Willard, and others. In 1891 Daniel Fayerweather bequeathed to the College the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. The College was also made one of twenty participants in the residuary estate, and has received the greater part of the two hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars to which it is entitled by the provisions of the will. On January i, 1905, Mr. Ralph Voorhees, of New
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