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Michigan Select Michigan Counties
OFFICERS.
Geo. B. Jocelyn, president; Jas. H. Hopkins,vice president; Lucy A. Osband, preceptress; Rollin C. Welch, secretary; George B. Merriman, librarian ; Chas. H. Chase, statistical secretary.
There are five regular societies connected with the institution. The Erosophian, (formed by a union of the-Clever Fellows' and Clever Girls' societies), Eclectic and Athenisedes societies, afford the usual opportunities for improvement- in composition and for exercise in forensic and parlia-liamentary usages. The Missionary society is organized for the promotion of religious enterprises. The Choral society has for its object the study and performance of works of the best composers. Also the Arions, an association for the development of a higher musical taste.
The following is a statement of the present financial condition of the college :
Deceased.
Buildings, grounds and furniture, Apparatus library and cabinet, President's house, . .
. $ 65;000 00 5,000 00 2,000 00
Funds in the hands of endowment fund committee :
In bonds and mortgages, .... $131,004 00 In notes,...... 12,550 00
72,000 00
In the hands of board of control. . In notes,.....
The income on this amount for the years 1875 and
1876 was.......$11,864 65
Income from other sources, v 4,078 42
143,554 00 25.000 00 23,896 26
$192,450
$15,942 97
The indebtedness of the college is $19,200. A sinking fund has been created to cancel this indebtedness.
I am indebted to Rev. W. H. Perrine, D. D., for the foregoing statement.
ATHENS
Is the southwest town of the county, and contains a small amount of beautiful prairie, some elegantly timbered tracts, and the balance is oak openings. In its primeval state it is said to have been surpassingly beautiful, especially in the vicinity of what is now called the village of Athens. This accounts, no doubt, for the eagerness to enter these lands, and the fact that they were selected and entered by rival applicants, mainly in the month of June, 1831.
There were entered June 6th, 1831, 1,440 acres.
7th, " 240 "
o' llth, " 80 "
" 18th, " 160 "
Ashael Stone, Warren Nichols, Peter Beisel, Jr., Caleb A. Millan, John Rogers, Goodwin Stoddard, purchased on the 6th of the month.
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