1855
Evansville Seminary was founded.
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“Another society is that of the Free Methodists. Evansville Seminary, founded in 1855 by the M. E. church, was transferred to the Free Baptists, and then, in 1879, came under the care of the Free Methodists, who still conduct it.”
1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 155 / book p. 663
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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