Transylvania University History - KY Genealogy

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Transylvania
University
Its Origin, Rise, Decline and Fall
By Robert Peter, 1895
206 pages, indexed
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Transylvania University opened in 1780, after the Virginia Assembly adopted a charter establishing
Transylvania
Seminary.
Originally in a log cabin in
Boyle County
,
Kentucky
, the school moved to
Lexington
in 1789. The first site in Lexington was a single
building in the historic Gratz Park. In 1829, this building burned, and the school was moved to its present location north of
Third Street
.
Old Morrison, the only campus building at the time, was completed in 1833. After 1818, the university included a medical school, a law
school, a divinity school, and a college of arts and sciences.
The other major institution that aided in the creation of the modern
Transylvania
University
was
Bacon
College
, named after Sir Francis
Bacon, which would later be known as
Kentucky
University
.
Bacon
College
existed from 1837-1851, founded by the Christian churches
in
Kentucky
. Bacon College was a new entity separated from Georgetown College, a Baptist supported institution, but
Bacon
College
inevitably closed due to lack of funding. Seven years later, in 1858,
Bacon
College
's charter was amended to establish
Kentucky
University
, and moved to donated land in
Harrodsburg
,
Kentucky
.
During the
Civil
War
Kentucky
University
was devastated by fire and both it and
Transylvania
University
were in dire financial straits.
As a result, in 1865, both institutions secured permission to merge. The new institution utilized Transylvania's campus in
Lexington
while perpetuating the name
Kentucky
University
.
The University was reorganized around several new colleges, including the Agricultural and
Mechanical
College
(A&M) of
Kentucky
,
publicly chartered as a department of
Kentucky
University
as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Act. However, due to questions
regarding the appropriateness of a federally funded land-grant college controlled by a religious body, the A&M college was spun off in
1878 as an independent, state-run institution. The A&M of
Kentucky
soon developed into the state's flagship public university, the
University
of
Kentucky
.
Kentucky University's College of the Bible, which traced its roots to Bacon College's Department of Hebrew Literature, also received
its own charter in 1878. The Seminary became a separate institution, although it remained housed on the
Kentucky
University
campus
until 1950, later changing its name to the
Lexington
Theological Seminary. In 1903,
Hamilton
College
, a Lexington-based women's
college founded in 1869, merged into
Kentucky
University
.
Due to confusion between
Kentucky
University
and its daughter institution the
University
of
Kentucky
, the institution adopted the
eldest name in its lineage "
Transylvania
University
" in 1908.
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