is proud of the achievements of Rev. William Ashmore, for many years a successful Baptist missionary in China, and of Dr. John G. Kerr, a medical missionary of the Presbyterian faith, also working for many years in the great empire of the East. Graduates of the institution are found in the faculties of the University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and in many smaller college. How much the ministerial portion of the alumni has done for the uplifting of the people of the middle West, no one can justly estimate. Of the nine men who have served as president since 1831, six were born in New England; four graduated from Brown University and one from Waterville College (now Colby), and the present executive head, although born in Virginia, cherished the proud heritage of descent from that famous couple, John Alden and Priscilla, through several generations of New England ancestors. During the first quarter century of its history the professors of the college included seven men, every one born in New England, one a Yale graduate, three alumni of Brown, two of Middlebury, and the seventh one of the pioneer alumni of the University of Michigan. With a sightly location upon a hill, which commands an extensive view, with a well-equipped faculty, with six good buildings and an endowment of perhaps a half a million dollars, Denison University ranks well into he front line of Ohio colleges. Situated close by, and with its work somewhat connected with the school for boys, is Shepardson College, a Baptist institution for girls. This was established in 1832, a very early date in the history of female education in the West. The Granville Female Seminary, as it was then called, announced as one of its special featured the first piano brought to Granville, a five-octave upright instrument. The school lived for seven years, when it was sold to the Episcopalians, who comprised a very influential element of the population for about thirty years. In 1861 the Episcopal Female Seminary again passed into Baptist hands, and the Young Ladies' Institute was established, which continued with honorable history until 1887, when it became Shepardson College, a name given it because of the donation of buildings and grounds by Rev. Daniel Shepardson to the Baptists of Ohio on certain conditions affecting endowment and future conduct of the school. Its course of study is not practically identical with that of Denison University, and the two institutions afford a practical example of coeducation, although they are governed by separate boards of trustees. Mr. Shepardson is a native of Royalston, Massachusetts, was educated at Amherst and Brown, and with a number of his teachers during a score of years represented the same New England influence which was so marked in the college for men. This Baptist school for girls, locally known as "The Upper Sem.," to distinguish it from "The Lower Sem.," a Presbyterian college for girls, situated at the opposite end of the village, was saved from years of struggle by a generous response to the appeal for endowment. All the Baptist educational interests of Ohio centre in Granville. With the Presbyterians there is no such concentration; therefore local support only has been given to Granville Female College, and there have been trying times in its financial history. This college was a child of the mother church, and if preliminary school are counted in its life, it is the oldest female college west of the Alleghenies. Its teachers have been efficient men and women, and its alumnae association is proud of such members as the wife of Hon. John Sherman of Ohio and Mary Hartwell Catherwood, the western novelist, who was reared near Granville, and followed her school life in Granville Female College with a year or more of teaching in the local village schools. But as in the case of Denison University and Shepardaon
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