File #3946: "1903-1904 Catalog, Vincennes, V.U. History."

1903-1904 Catalog, Vincennes, V.U. History.

Indiana--History; Vincennes (Ind.)--History; College Publications

Pg. 8-9. Left page: VINCENNES UNIVERSITY: LOCATION: Describes the location on the Wabash River, railroad connections, and the population, beauty, churches and historic attractions of Vincennes. HISTORY: Describes the 1804 act of Congress that provided land for Vincennes University. Right page: History, cont.: Describes the original land grant, incorporation of Vincennes University by the Territorial Legislature of Indiana, approval of William Henry Harrison in 1806, and first Board of Trustees, with William Henry Harrison, President, and General Washington Johnston, Secretary, purchase of the original campus at Fifth and Hart Sts.; beginning of instruction under Rev. Samuel T. Scott as President in 1810; the 1830 confiscation of the land by the State without authority of law.

Vincennes University, Byron R. Lewis Historical Library

1903-1904

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