Shurtleff College
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Shurtleff College was a Baptist liberal arts college in Alton, Illinois. It was founded in 1827 as the Rock Spring Seminary in St. Clair County, Illinois. It was the first college in Illinois. It move
1891 advertisement of Shurtleff College
John Mason Peck
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John Mason Peck was an American Baptist missionary to the western frontier of the United States, especially in Missouri and Illinois. A prominent anti-slavery advocate of his day, Peck also founded ma
Shurtleff College
…donor. Its peak enrollment was 700 students in 1950. In 1957, it became a campus of the Southern Illinois University system. Founded in 1827 by Reverend John Mason Peck (a Baptist missionary) as Rock Spring Seminary in St. Clair County, Illinois, and relocated to Alton, Illinois in 1832, first as the Alton Seminary…
John Mason Peck