Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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M. E. CHURCH AND CAMPUS.

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FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS. MILLARD F. WARNER, A. M., B. D., M. D., President, and Professor of Philosophy. CARL RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Ph. D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. ARCHIE M. MATTISON, A. M., Professor of the Latin Language and Anglo-Saxon. VICTOR WILKER, A. M., Professor of the German and French Languages. ALBERT HALLEN, S. T. L., Ph. D., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. JAMES HERVEY SMITH, A. M., Professor of Natural Sciences. ANNA E. RHODES, A. B., Professor of Greek and Latin. Director of FRANK L. CLARK, A. B., Instructor in Greek and Latin. KATE I. BROWN, B. L., Professor of History and English. ALFRED ARTHUR, the School of Music, Instructor in Voice and Harmony. PAUL STROUP, Piano and Organ. W. C. HOWELL, Voice and Harmony. ALBERTA E. JAMES, Drawing and Painting. JOHN G. SCORER, Elocution. WATSON I. TAYLOR, Ph. D., Instructor in Mathematics and Physics. Professor JAMES H. SMITH, Librarian. F. B. GOTT, Stenography, Typewriting 9

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BALDWIN UNIVERSITY. ERE A has ever been widely known for two things: its colleges and its immense stone industries. When in 1828, John Baldwin, with his newly wedded bride, journeyed from Connecticut to Berea, he found here little more than a dense wilderness. Cleveland at this time was a modest little hamlet of less than a thousand souls. Deer and game of all kind ranged the forests. The sharp, snarling bark of the wolf and shrill cry of wild cat were sounds often heard throughout the long winter nights. The founder of Baldwin University was born in Bradford, Connecticut, Oct. 13,1799. His father was a blacksmith and had served in the war of 1776. Young Baldwin ' s education was ' of the most meager kind. At eighteen he was converted and joined the Methodist church. After this, feeling his want of edu- cation, he borrowed books, being too poor to buy them, and by hard study and persistent work managed to enter a neighboring academy, where he fitted himself for a teacher. Sixteen years after his arrival on the Western Reserve, by his untiring energy and indomitable will he developed and had in successful opera- tion what has since become one of the greatest sand-stone industries on this continent. John Baldwin had, 1th and broad acres. In 1845, we get the first inkling of what is now known to have been the great purpose of his life. In August of that year, at the session of the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Marion, O., the minutes show that he donated to the Conference a large and valuable amount of land and property for an institution of learning. A Campus of five acres, with a building (North Hall), thirty village lots, and fifty acres of land having valuable and inexhaustible stone quarries. 11 A charter was granted December 20, 1845, and Baldwin Institute was opened April 9, 1846, with a male and female department. The premises free from debt and the settled policy of the Board of Trustees not to run the institution in debt. 11 1 1