National Theological Institute with branches in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, split apart after 1865 with the Washington branch becoming Wayland Seminary; 1869 the Richmond branch was named Colver Institute; in 1876 school was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly under the name Richmond Institute; in 1883 a college for women named Hartshorn Memorial College was founded by the ABHMS; with no women attending the Richmond Institute it turned strictly to theological studies and re-established itself as Richmond Theological Seminary in 1886; by 1889 it was agreed that Wayland Seminary and Richmond Theological Seminary would come together to form Virginia Union University; in 1932 the merger of Hartshorn Memorial College made it the third school in the union; in 1964 Storer College of Harpers Ferry, W. Va., founded in 1867 by Free Will Baptists, merged it assets with Virginia Union to become the fourth component of the union.
From the description of Student handbooks, 1951-1981. (Virginia Union University). WorldCat record id: 70970014
