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19 TRAVELINGS History of Monmouth College p The founders of Monmouth College were pi- oneers, living in the sparcely populated commun- ity of Monmouth, surrounded by prairie lands which stretched away in all four directions. These men, Porter, Ross, Erskine, Wallace, Brown, Morrison and ethers, inspired by the spirit of the frontier laid the foundation of our college through courage, persistence and determination. Not now, nor at any period since, and probably never again will appear here such a distinguished constella- tion of those intellectually great as existed in Illi- nois during the quarter of a century immediately antecedent to the founding of Monmouth College. At that time in the life of the pioneer with its hardships, deprivations and poverty, one could not go far to seek for an education. It must, to be available, be brought to his door. The found- ers of Monmouth College appreciated the sacri- fices of the fathers and mothers who fought and conquered the wilderness and resolved that their children should not surfer loss on account of self- denial and hardships of their ancestry. They felt that divine afflatus which had led Webster in speaking of his father, to say, If I ever fail to remember him who pioneered his way into the wilderness that the lot in life of his children might be better than his own had been, may my name and the name of my posterity be forever blotted from the memory of mankind. Rev. J. C. Porter and Rev. Robert Ross, then pastors of the Associate Reformed, now the United Presbyterian Church over congregations of Cedar Creek and South Henderson in Warren and Henderson Counties, first conceived the idea which led to the establishment of Monmouth Col- lege. Led in this movement by these pastors, the Second Associated Reformed Presbytery of Illi- nois, met in the South Henderson Church in Oc- tober, 1852, and took the first step in this work. It was resolved that these two ministers, together —10—
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