1962 Miracle Yearbook

• • • 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. r ef/41,14a roar er>1.1 / At Duanesburgh, New York, in May of 1879, the General Synod of the Reformed Pres- byterian 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. On January 26, 1887, Cedarville College was chartered by the state of Ohio. At the meet- ing of the General Synod held in Coulterville, Illinois, in May, 1894, the Synod, upon the recom- mendation 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 build- ing was erected and entered the following year, 1895. 6