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The «larger dream” of the Reverend George Washington Gale, already the creator of one school in Whitesboro, New York, was the founding of another manual labor college in the Middle West. He called a meeting in the First Presbyterian Church in Rome, New York on the sixth day of May, 1835. This assembly was announced by the first document of importance in Knox history, a circular intended to arouse the interest and idealism of the Reverend Gale’s nei ghbors. After this first meeting, plans moved rapidl y. Twenty thous- and dollars were promised for the new college. An exploring committee was sent out to choose a site and the winter of 1836-7 found a colony living in what was literally a «Log City” a few miles north of the present site of the city of Galesburg. On February 15, 1837, the college was chartered by the Ilinots legislature. The original plans for a manual labor college were not carried out, but the school did provide a «wide and effectual door” for the education of the young men of the West. By 1849 the women’s seminary was organized. Fourteen years before the Reverend Gale had satd prophetically that «the females” are to act a much more important part in the «conversion of the world” than had been heretofore supposed. The First Church of Galesburg was founded on the same day as the College. Thus began the steady growth of school, church, and town, all three uniting to ful fill the unswerving ideals of the Whites- boro founder. During the troubled times of depression, reli gious strife, and the Civil War, the loyalty of the pioneers and their descendants proved that the Reverend Gale had not dreamed in vain. Some of the men who best represent the aspirations of the founders are the administrators. The first president, Hiram Kellogg, worked indefatigably to improve and equip the college. Jonathan Blanchard steadied the infant school during the crucial years from 1845 to 1858. Newton Bateman gained friends for Knox with his brilliant chapel talks, a tradition since his time. President John Huston Finley, at twenty-seven the youngest college head in the country, brought noted men to Knox who left to spread her fame. Maintaining that the American “college idea” is valuable, President Thomas McClelland kept “Old Siwash” from succumbi ng to specialization. It is because such men as these with their faculty associates faced their problems with courage that the college has lived for a glorious century.
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