Wheaton Academy - Compass Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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Jonathan Blanchard He came to Wheaton because he be lneved the Lord had need of Wheaton He made a great building out of a small frame structure and from a small pre paratory school he fashroned a great God s hand guided Wheaton College and Academy wisely In the crltucal early years and we now recogmze hum as the foremost of the foundnng fathers Q college, Jonathan Blanchard, led by

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In the year T853 the Great Republic was beung bullt lt was the height of the cllpper shlp era Frank lln Pierce was comlng into offlce at a time of grow mg natlonal dlssenslon on the slavery Issue and Gadsen had made hls notable purchase for the Unuted States government termmatlng the greatest frontler the world had ever known At the time when thus great natlonal frontler had ended another frontler was bemg discovered The far reachlng posslbllltles of this frontler presented themselves to a handful of praurle settlers In the mud western Illmols Vnllage of Wheaton These were courageous men of actuon who belleved In God and the right When they had believed their church the Methodust Epnscopal to take wrong vlews on ques tlons such as llquor traffic secret socletles worldly amusements and particularly slavery they had broken away and formed their own group whlch they named Wesleyan Methodlst Mrs Warren I. Wheaton, oldest lnvmg Academy alumnus, and daughter In law of the man after whom Wheaton us named . . . and one begms They sent thenr chnldren to eastern colleges and umversntles but when these sons came back with Ideas foreign to the convlctlons of their parents the elders were greatly alarmed True to form they took pos mve actuon Kneelmg In the pralrne grass of the sate whuch they had purchased from John C Howard for one hundred and fnfty dollars they dedicated the hull and all that should be upon lt to that God ln whom trusting they had boldly gone Into the thickest of the fight not only for the freedom of human bodues but of human souls as well They called thelr new school Illmous lnstutute Here their sons and daughters would receive educatuonal tramlng based upon the Buble they believed and centered In the Lord they loved Thus It was that Wheaton Academy was conceived In a farmness of fatth and clarlty of purpose that compelled the foundmg fathers to start the senous buslness of pushing back the new frontier l 1 I I3 ,, . ,, . . . I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' I I I ' . . . . . . . . . , . . . . ,, ' I . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . ' I r . . . . ,, ' . . . ,, . ,, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' I . . . . I ' ' . . . . . . . I I . . . . . I I . . . . . . t