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HISTORY OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE BY HON. JOHN C. PATTERSON, 1883
Before the committee recovered from this unexpected rebuff, the doctor asked the committee to name the amount of contributions they would accept and locate the college at Hillsdale and entertain no other proposition. In other words, the committee were asked to name the price for locating the college at that place. The committee at first were not able to give their figures, but after conferring together they named fifteen thousand dollars, to be used for building purposes. The citizens of the township of Hillsdale offered to raise fifteen thousand dollars in the township providing the college would raise another fifteen thousand dollars for the same purpose and thereby double the amount of the building fund. This proposition was accepted by the committee on condition that the fifteen thousand dollars required of the college should be raised in Hillsdale county. The citizens agreed to this condition and the negotiations were consummated. The committee reported this agreement to the board of trustees on the 16th day of February, 1853, and their action was promptly ratified by the board. Hillsdale, seeing the grand opportunity, by its business shrewdness and prompt action, secured the location of th'e college on paper. At this meeting of the board, provisions were made to raise the amount of money required of the college for building purposes. C. W. Ferris of Hillsdale was elected treasurer. Trustees Dunakin, Fairfield, Limboeker, Whipple, and Churchill were elected to act as a prudential committee. This committee was authorized to act with a committee of citizens of like number to locate the site of the
"invisible college. " Hon. Esben Blackmar of Newark, N. J., then owned a thousand acres of land adjoining the village on the north, and Dr. Daniel Beebe had charge of these lands as agent. The citizens sent him to Newark. 2s. J., to solicit aid from Mr. Blackmar.
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