• • • ThO FIitST BUILDING a 0i...41iVILLE CA.11.11Gii ICUIN TH. L0L 011GIN,T1D Capt. 19th, 1994 The home of Rev. Hugh Macmillan where the first classes of Cedarville College were held in 1894. ref/41,14a roar er>1.1 / At Duanesburgh, New York, in May of 1879, the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church decided to establish a liberal arts college. By the will of William Gibson, an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, a bequest of $25,000 was left in 1886 to found the college at Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio. On January 26, 1887, Cedarville College was chartered by the state of Ohio. At the meeting of the General Synod held in Coulterville, Illinois, in May, 1894, the Synod, upon the recommendation of the board of trustees, elected Dr. McKinney first President of Cedarville College. The board chose a faculty, and on Wednesday, September 19, 1894, the college was formally opened for instruction to thirty-six students in the fii.e old mansion (above) formerly occupied by Dr. Hugh McMillan's Academy. The quarters proving too small for the work, the new building was erected and entered the following year, 1895. 6
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