Historical Sketch of Marietta College

Download or read book Historical Sketch of Marietta College written by Marietta College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketch of Marietta College: Founded at Marietta, Ohio, 1835 This ordinance, says Judge Story, is equally remarkable for the brevity and exactness of its text, and for its masterly display of the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty. Among the members of this colony were Colonel Israel Putnam (son of General Israel), with his sons, Dudley Woodbridge, Paul Fearing, Joshua Gilman, Benjamin Ives Gilman, Colonel R. J. Meigs, with his son, R. J. Meigs, J r., afterwards Governor of Ohio, and many others who were prominent men in the early history of the North-west. Not a few of these were men of liberal education, graduates of Harvard, Yale, Brown and Dartmouth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.