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Marion
College.-In 1831 William Muldrow, Dr. David Nelson and Dr. David
Clark established a college in Marion County, twelve miles west of
Palmyra, which they called Marion College. It was planned as a
university, had a preparatory department, department of arts and
science, and a department of theology. Capital was secured from
New York parties, 5,ooo acres of land purchased, buildings erected
and improvements made costing $70,000, and the institution
flourished under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for about ten years, when it proved a financial failure arid was
abandoned. At the height of its prosperity seven teachers were
employed and about 15o pupils were in attendance. Dr. Nelson
afterward became famous through his standard work, "Nelson on
Infidelity." |
