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in the founding and conduct of the Institute, and was
the largest stockholder, finally disposed of the land
giving a large share of the proceeds to the Union Bap-
tist Theological Seminary, located at Morgan Park,
Illinois. The Institute was not endowed, and like
other Baptist schools of the State it could not com-
pete with the public High Schools in which tuition was
free. The Institute maintained so high a standard of
scholarship that it drew and held some of the repre-
sentative young women of Baptist families of Indiana.
Here follow the names of some of those: Mrs. Rosa
Adams Bailey, Mrs. Mary Hawley Swift, Mrs. Lucy
Hawley Hall, Mrs. Sophie Trow Terry, Mrs. Rosa
English Walling, Mrs. Eusebia Cravens Stimson, Miss
Marie Haslup, M. D., Mrs. Irene Boynton, Mrs. Mat-
tie Cobb Bailey, Mrs. Alice Cobb Holman, Mrs. Alice
Jordan, Mrs. Kate Bundy, Mrs. Julia Merriam Tucker,
Mrs. Nannie Furgason, Mrs. Marcia Hobart, Mrs.
Elvira Gordon Kimball, Mrs. Ada Briggs, Mrs. Louisa
Parks Richards, Mrs. Alice Shirk Edwards, and Miss
Clara Kenower.
Ladies College at Vevay. It will be new to many
that there was ever any attempt on the part of the
Baptists to found a school at Vevay. But that there
was, is evident from some resolutions passed at two
different Associations; the first was at the Bethel As-
sociation in 1859 and is as follows:
"Resolved, That as the friends of education have it
in mind to establish a ladies' school at Vevay, Indiana.
we heartily recommend the enterprise to the favor of
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the churches--and other enterprises of the same char-
acter."
The other was passed at the Long Run Association
in 1859 and was offered by Deacon U. P. Schenck of
the Vevay Baptist church:
"Whereas the friends of education have commenced
the establishment of a ladies' college at Vevay, Indiana.
we heartily recommend the enterprise to the favor of
the churches composing the Association."
There seems to be no evidence that the work of in-
struction was ever begun; in fact it is reasonable to
suppose that the general demoralization wrought by
the approaching civil conflict discouraged all further
operations as to the school, and that no instruction was
ever given.
School at Utica. The following resolution was
passed at the Bethel Association in 1880 in reference
to this school:
"Whereas we have a first class Baptist school for
the education of young ladies in our midst. Resolved,
that we consider Sister P. 5. Waldo's select school for
young ladies, located at Utica, Indiana, a school in
every respect worthy of the respect and patronage of
the denomination--therefore we cordially recommend
this school to the confidence and liberal patronage of.
the denomination--and especially. to this Association;
further that we request the Witness to copy the above
resolution."
Mitchell Seminary. This was organized in 1864,
and in 1865 the following persons constituted the fac-
ulty of instruction: The Rev. J. K. Howard, A. B.,
