University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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 xn-n-i-i rm , Ynt iktiT-n:»■ K E N T U C K a psi isi NETEEN EE 1— EEL EL IM History of The University IN September, 1801, James K. Patterson, then a young man of twenty-eight years, was plaecd in charge of what remained of Tran- sylvania University. In 1805 Tran- sylvania University was consolidated by Act of the Legislature with Ken- tucky University, which had up to that time Irecn established at Har- rodsburg. Three years prior to the consolidation. Congress had given to each State in the Union 30,000 acres of land for each Representative in Congress, for the pur| osc of estab- lishing and endowing agricultural and mechanical colleges. Kentucky received 800,000 acres under that allotment, a magnificent domain equal to more than 1.500 square miles, and which, if it had l ccn judicially and economically administered, would by this time have produced an income of more than $400,000 a year. It was so managed, however, that a net income of but $9,000 accrues from the original magnificent endowment. The State established an Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1805, but made it one of the colleges of Ken- tucky University, instead of establishing it u|w n an independent footing. Professor James K. Patterson was elected Professor of History and Metaphysics in the new organization. In 1809 he Itccame its president. In 1878 the Agricultural and Mechanical College was detached from its former connection with Ken- tucky University, and by Act and placed ti| on an independ- ent basis. The City of Lexington gave the city |Nirk as a site for the college, and the president obtained from the city and county $.54.1 25 for the erection of buildings. It was thencefor- ward known as the State Col- lege. until 1908. when it was made a University by the Lcgis- lature. taking thenceforward the name of State University. In 1880 President Patterson ob- tained from the State the pro- ceeds of a tax of one twentieth of a mill for the further endowment of the college. Two years there- after the denominational col- leges of Kentucky memorialized Prnldrni Pattcruon