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HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE BY HON. JOHN C. PATTERSON, 1883
Then in middle life, and in the midst of his usefulness, he had moved to Oberlin, to use his own words, "with a fixed and unalterable determination, if the Lord will, to pursue those studies needful for preparing me to enter college, then to take a thorough and regular course through college and theology. "
Elder Elijah Cook, after conferring with the other delegates from Calhoun quarterly meeting, wrote to Elder Marks concerning the contemplated movement at the yearly meeting, and requested him to be present at that meeting. and advocate the measure by his voice and presence. Marks was prevented
from being present on account of illness. He forwarded Cook's communiea tion to the denominational educational society of New England, and replied, heartily endorsing the proposed measure and action. During the session of the yearly meeting at Franklin, in June, 1844, Lewis J. Thompson, of Oakland county, delivered an address upon the subject of Christian education, before the conference. Early jn the business session of the conference, Elder Samuel Whitcomb, the prime advocate of the educational movement in the State, made a motion to raise ten thousand dollars to establish a denom-inational sehool within the territory of the yearly meeting. Roosevelt Davis, of Jackson county, seconded the motion. The measure was discussed at length, and at different sessions of the conference. The people were poor, and the subject had not been generally canvassed throughout the territorial limits of the yearly meeting, and the conference was unprepared to grapple with the question. Elder Chauncey Reynolds, now of Hillsdale, was a mem-"ber of the conference, as a delegate from the Grand River quarterly meeting, and he expressed the sentiments of a large majority of the delegates, when, in the course of the debate, he said: "As an individual, I favor the motion, but the subject has not been canvassed in my quarterly meeting, and as a delegate representing these churches, I do not feel justified in voting for the measure which will impose upon them the burden of raising the necessary means.
EARLY MICHIGAN
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