1942 Cedrus Yearbook

A T DUANESBURGH, N. Y., 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, Cincin- nati, a bequest of $25,000 was left in 1886 to found the college at Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio. A charter was obtained for "The Cedarville College" in 1887. In May of 1894, the General Synod at Coulterville, Illinois, resolved to open Cedarville College on September 19, 1894. On this date the college was opened for instruction to thirty-six students in the fine old mansion formerly owned by Rev. Hugh McMillan, D. D., the first pastor of the Main Street Reformed Presbyterian congregation of Cedarville. In this place three-quarters of a century ago, Dr. McMillan taught an academy, from which graduated a number of illustrious men. These quarters proving too