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Horace Holley
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ISBN: 0813168597 0813168805 0813168589 9780813168586 0813168570 9780813168807 9780813168579 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky

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Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781-1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University - the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. In this definitive biography, James P. Cousins offers fresh perspectives on a seminal yet controversial figure in American religious history and educational life.

Transylvania, tutor to the West
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ISBN: 081319167X 0813149207 9780813149202 9780813191676 Year: 2006 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky University Press of Kentucky

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Chartered in 1780, Transylvania University played a significant role as an educational pioneer in the developing trans-Allegheny West and served as its first institution of higher education. Strategically located in the growing city of Lexington, Kentucky, the university established schools of law and medicine at a time when there were few such educational offerings in the country. Noted alumni include emancipationist Cassius M. Clay and Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Two centuries later, Transylvania University maintains its commitment to the highest standards of the liberal arts educ

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