Washington &Jefferson College is a private liberal arts college in Washington,Pennsylvania. The college traces its origin to three Presbyterian missionaries in the 1780s:John McMillan,Thaddeus Dod,and Joseph Smith. Early schools grew into two competing academies,with Jefferson College located in Canonsburg and Washington College located in Washington. The two colleges merged in 1865 to form Washington &Jefferson College. The 60-acre (24 ha) campus has more than 40 buildings,with the oldest dating to 1793. The college has a strong history of competing literary societies,dating back before the union of Jefferson and Washington Colleges. The athletic program competes in NCAA Division III. Nearly all students live on campus and roughly one third are members of fraternities or sororities.
West Virginia State University (WVSU) is a public historically black,land-grant university in Institute,West Virginia. Founded in 1891 as the West Virginia Colored Institute,it is one of the original 19 land-grant colleges and universities established by the second Morrill Act of 1890,which evolved as a diverse and inclusive campus. Following desegregation,WVSU's student population slowly became more white than black. As of 2017,WVSU's student body was 75% white and only 8% African-American.
Andrew Wylie was an American academic and theologian,who was president of Jefferson College (1811–1816) and Washington College (1816–1828) before becoming the first president of Indiana University (1829–1851).
Ralph Cooper Hutchison was president of Washington &Jefferson College and Lafayette College.
Matthew Brown was a prominent Presbyterian minister and president of Washington College and Jefferson College. Next to John McMillan,Brown was the most important figure to education in Western Pennsylvania.
William McMillan was elected the fourth president of Jefferson College on September 24,1817.
David Elliott was the third president of Washington College from 1830 to 1831.
James David Moffat was the 3rd president of Washington &Jefferson College.
Jonathan Edwards (1817–1891) was the first president of Washington &Jefferson College following the union of Washington College and Jefferson College.
John Work Scott,son of Andrew Scott and Mary Dinsmore,was the sixth and last president of Washington College before its merger with Jefferson College to form Washington &Jefferson College.
James Clark was the fifth president of Washington College
William E. Slemmons was a prominent 19th century clergyman and academic in Western Pennsylvania.
Enoch Albert Bryan was president of Vincennes University in Indiana from 1883 to 1893 and of Washington's land-grant institution,today called Washington State University,from 1893 to 1915. At the latter institution he was the third president but the first with a long tenure,following George Lilly,1891-1892,and John W. Heston,1892-1893.
Burleigh Cruikshank was an American football player and Presbyterian minister. In 1914,he was a first-team All-American playing at the center position for Washington &Jefferson College. He later attended the Princeton Theological Seminary and served as a Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,Steubenville,Ohio and Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
The history of Washington &Jefferson College begins with three log cabin colleges established by three frontier clergymen in the 1780s:John McMillan,Thaddeus Dod,and Joseph Smith. The three men,all graduates from the College of New Jersey,came to present-day Washington County to plant churches and spread Presbyterianism to what was then the American frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains. John McMillan,the most prominent of the three founders because of his strong personality and longevity,came to the area in 1775 and built his log cabin college in 1780 near his church in Chartiers. Thaddeus Dod,known as a keen scholar,built his log cabin college in Lower Ten Mile in 1781. Joseph Smith taught classical studies in his college,called "The Study" at Buffalo.
Reverend Charles William Nassau D.D.,was a Presbyterian minister and the fourth president of Lafayette College serving from 1849 to 1850.
Bernard A. Maguire was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit who served twice as the president of Georgetown University. Born in Ireland,he emigrated to the United States at the age of six,and his family settled in Maryland. Maguire attended Saint John's College in Frederick,Maryland,and then entered the Society of Jesus in 1837. He continued his studies at Georgetown University,where he also taught and was prefect,until his ordination to the priesthood in 1851.
Charles William Lyons was an American Catholic priest who became the only Jesuit and likely the only educator in the United States to have served as the president of four colleges. Born in Boston,Massachusetts,he attended the local public schools before entering the wool industry. He abandoned his career in industry to enter the Society of Jesus. While a novice in Maryland,he suffered a nervous breakdown and was sent to Georgetown University as prefect. He then resumed his studies at Woodstock College,teaching intermittently at Gonzaga College in Washington,D.C. and Loyola College in Baltimore. After his ordination,he became a professor at St. Francis Xavier College in New York City and at Boston College.
William Clarke Young was an American minister,educator,and academic administrator who was the eighth president of Centre College in Danville,Kentucky,from 1888 until his death in 1896. The son of Centre's fourth president,John C. Young,William attended Centre and the Danville Theological Seminary,graduating in 1859 and 1865,respectively. He had a 23-year career in the ministry,serving congregations in Kentucky,Indiana,and Illinois,before returning to Centre to accept the presidency following the resignation of Ormond Beatty. During Young's eight-year presidency,the college established a law school,constructed numerous buildings,and retroactively conferred degrees upon some of its first female graduates. Young was also the moderator of the Presbyterian Church General Assembly in 1892,as his father had done some thirty-nine years earlier.
