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HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE BY HON. JOHN C. PATTERSON, 1883
As the attendance increased, and the classes were multiplied, advanced students were employed to teach the lower branches. Among the students thus employed I am able to name the following: Frank Tallant, William H. Perrine, Livonia E. Benedict, Julia Packard, Eliza D. Camp, Lucy St. John, Walter H. Watkins, Joseph Andrews, and Sarah Mahony. More teachers were required to meet the demands of the institution, and in 1851 Prof. Charles H. Churchill, now professor of physics in Oberlin College, was elected professor. In January, 1852, Rev. Ransom Dunn, now at the head of the theological department at Hillsdale, was elected professor. In January, 1853, Rev. Henry E. Whipple, who had graduated from Oberlin College, and had been a tutor there, was elected professor. Professors Churchill, Dunn, and Whipple, upon their respective elections, entered upon their duties. An able faculty of active and progressive men had been procured. Their presence and labors increased the number of students and raised the expectations of the friends of the college. Though a denominational school, it was not sectarian. A strong moral and religious influence surrounded it, yet a liberal and catholic sentiment prevailed. More recitation rooms and dormitories were indispensable to meet the growing demands of the institution. It not only required buildings, but also an endowment. The faculty and trustees determined to meet this exigency by raising the necessary building fund from the immediate locality, and the endowment fund from the denomination at large. An appeal was made to the local community for contributions to erect the additional buildings required. No response was made to the appeal, and no effort made to respond. A narrow disposition was manifested in the community to make money out of the institution before it had been put upon an independent
basis. Without further financial aid the college could neither meet the growing demands upon it, nor fulfill its proper mission. The life and usefulness of the enterprise were at stake. No encouragement came from the locality. Heroic, treatment was required.
EARLY MICHIGAN
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