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HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE BY HON. JOHN C. PATTERSON, 1883
This meeting of citizens promptly voted to make an effort to secure the location of the institution, and appointed a committee to confer with the college authorities. Professor Dunn, -with a company of citizens, spent the following day in looking over the various desirable grounds for a college site, in the vicinity of Hillsdale. Upon reaching the hill where the college now stands. Professor Dunn mounted a stump, then standing in the bushes a few rods south of where the central building is now situated, and glancing over the ground exclaimed in that thrilling manner so peculiar to him: "Here is the place for the college!" Was it the voice of an oracle? or the voice of prophecy? Hillsdale had captured the professor, and the professor had captured Hillsdale.
The professor returned to Spring Arbor to be present at the adjourned meeting of the board of trustees. At Jonesville he was joined by President Fairfield, who had remained at Coldwater, and had received a liberal offer from that community. The President was disposed to recommend Coldwater to the board, when he was joined by Professor Dunn, but, upon comparing notes, it was decided to let Hillsdale and Coldwater compete for the school. At the adjourned meeting, the board of trustees determined to continue the school at Spring Arbor until the close of the academic year. The committee to confer with other localities reported the encouragement received from Coldwater and Hillsdale, and recommended that a committee of five trustees be appointed, to be composed of members, not locally interested in the decision, to locate the college at Jackson, Adrian. Hillsdale, Coldwater, or Marshall, on condition that the locality should raise fifteen thousand dollars for building purposes.
EARLY MICHIGAN
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