Rev. A. L. Chapin was called/elected President (from Milwaukee); P79 gives the election as November 1849.

The evidence

• “L. Chapin, was called from Milwaukee, November 21, 1849, and inaugurated July 24, 1850. Professor Porter came in 1852 and Professor Blaisdell in 1859.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/15-colleges.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 335 / book p. 307

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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