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Mount Carroll Seminary Endowment Explored by Northwest Baptists
The article reviews Mount Carroll Seminary founded by Mrs F A Wood Shimer in 1858, its growth, faculty including Henry W Hazen and Adelia Joy, campus of 25 acres with a 100 acre farm, and the plan to endow the school with $100000 funded by Baptist women of the Northwest. It notes potential bequests and Shimer’s aim to secure a permanent western educational institution.
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Mt Carroll Seminary
Chicago
Northwest
Vassar
Mount Carroll Seminary
F. A. Wood Shimer
Brethren
Sisters of the Baptist
Misa Frances A Wood
Mra Shimer
Misa ( M Gregory
Tadies
Mount Carroll Bemiary
Polot of Tomben
Adelia CG Joy
Sbhimer
Florida
Henry W Hazen
Ellen JE Graunia
Nettie Griggs
Sophia Winter
Jossie BI. Hall
M Loulan Slee
F. Dearborn Hazzen
Conservatory of Music
M. L. Bole
Clara Ferguson
Florence Fopping
Henry Shimer
Young Ladies of
Elton Eastman
Anna J. Burt
M Elya Gale
Fannie K E. Gibbs
Ida G. Burchard
Mabel Abernathy
Teller
Lulu Kelly
2D Teller
Palla Parkinson
Frances A. Wood Shimer
Mikewise
Baptist Women of the Northwest
Baptist Women College Society of the
Fletcher
Springfield
Ill
M. Brayton
Blue Island
H. Walker
Barry
Til
M. Hall
Mount Carroll
Adettie Joy
E Wells
Mra L. Freeman
Shimer
Mississippi Valley
Lake
Mia Rhimer
West