Records, 1833-1991.

Oberlin College. Alumni Records.

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934

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Henry Churchill King was born at Hillsdale, Michigan on September 18, 1858. He received the A.B. from Oberlin College in 1879 and the B.D. from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1882. In 1884, after a year spent at Harvard University, he returned to Oberlin as Associate Professor of Mathematics. In 1890, he became Associate Professor and in 1891 Professor of Philosophy. He spent the year 1893-94 at the University of Berlin. In 1897, he succeeded President James H. Fairchild as Professor of The...

Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Carr, Robert Kenneth, 1908-1979

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Widely respected academician and ninth President of Oberlin College. Born in Cleveland (1908), Carr received his education at Dartmouth (A.B. 1929) and Harvard (A.M. 1930, Ph. D. 1935). He taught in the department of political science at the University of Oklahoma (1931-37) and at Dartmouth (1937-56), contributing to the work of the Truman Commission on Civil Rights. He was elected President of Oberlin College in 1960. As President, Carr is known for reorganizing the adm...

Wilkins, Ernest Hatch, 1880-1966

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Ernest Hatch Wilkins was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts on September 14, 1880. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1900 and began his teaching career there, receiving the M.A. from Amherst in 1903. He taught at Harvard University from 1906 to 1912 while working towards the Ph. D. in Romance Languages, which he received in 1910. In 1912, he was appointed Associate Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Chicago and in 1923 became Dean of the university's College ...

Oberlin College. Alumni Information Services

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Oberlin College. Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

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Oberlin College. Conservatory of Music

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The records of the conservatory of music span the years 1841 to 1991, with the bulk of the records concentrated in the period 1930 to 1990. Few records of evidential value have survived to illuminate the conservatory's first century. Notably absent from the collection are such basic administrative files as annual reports and Board of Trustees records. There are virtually no course materials documenting the various instructional divisions. Minutes are present for the meetings of the Conservatory ...

Oberlin College. Board of Trustees

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The Oberlin College Board of Trustees first met on March 10, 1834. Membership included twelve trustees and increased in 1874 to 18, in 1878 to 24, and in 1970 to 28. The President of the College has always been a member ex officio of the Board. The Prudential Committee was formed in 1834. Its purpose was the management of day-to-day affairs of the institution not specifically entrusted to the Trustees. Prudential Committee business came to be transacted by numerous subcommittees. Eventually, the...

Stevenson, William Edwards, 1900-1985

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Lawyer, diplomat. From the description of Reminiscences of William E. Stevenson oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481164 Stevenson was educated at Princeton University (1918-22) and Oxford University (1922-25) where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He practiced law in New York from 1925 until 1942, when he joined the American Red Cross as Delegate to Great Britain and subsequently to North Africa and Italy (1942-44). On his ret...

Fairchild, James H.

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James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902) was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Brownhelm in the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio. He graduated in the first freshman class of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1838 and completed the theological course in 1841. He taught languages, mathematics, and systematic theology at Oberlin and was elected President in 1866, replacing Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875). Fairchild served until 1889 and died in 1902. From the description of...

Oberlin Collegiate Institute

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