Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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mi 1 ' ' ..story of mi achers coll c in September, 1867, as a privat “ as founded by Joseph Baldwin rs. It was opened in a building cctcd by the Kirksville Presbyt the outbreak of the Civil War. It of Kirksville. blish a private normal school. He excellence as to induce the State of lerefore began at once to advocate a s 'campaign by several prominent educati ted a law in March. 1870, providing fo River. The location of these two institution The Missouri State Teachers Co tion and was called the Northeast Mis; been engaged in normal school work in I at the time as Cumberland Academy. Th the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for in the block now known as the Memorial Pa President Baldwin had not come to with the definite purpose of building up an souri to make it one of a number of state no tern of six normal schools in Missouri. He was in the state, and as a result the Legislature of. two state normal schools, one on cither side of th was left to a Board of Regents. Shortly after the Legislature passed this bill j ding for two state normal schools, various counties prepared bids for the location of these instituens and submitted them to the Board of Regents. Adair and Livingston counties were active competitors for the school north of the Missouri River. On December 29, 1870, the Board of Regents accepted the bid of Adair County and located the First District Normal School at Kirksville. The faculty of the Northeast Missouri Nornyil School was then made the fac- ulty of the newly created State Normal School with Joseph Baldwin as president. When the students re- turned to Kirksville in January, 1871, after the Christmas holidays, they returned to a state institution. The school known in its catalogs both as the North Missouri State Normal School and the Missouri State Normal School of the First District continued to use the building, in which it had been founded as a private institution, until January, 1873. when it occupied a new building on the present campus. This, old building, later known as Baldwin Hall was for nearly thirty years the only building on the campus. In 1901 Library Hall was built as a wing on Uie east of the main building, and in 1905 Science Hall was erected as another wing on the west. Scicrfce Halloas gutted by fire on September IX, 1918, but was rebuilt in the winter of 1918-19., At that time automated fire doors were installed in the passageways between Baldwin Hall and Science Hall and these saved Sciere Hall at a later time.