Item #31899 CLAIMS OF COLLEGES TO PUBLIC FAVOR- KNOX COLLEGE. AN ADDRESS BY REV. GEORGE W. GALE, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN KNOX COLLEGE, ILLINOIS, DELIVERED AT THEIR ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, JULY 23, 1847. George Gale, ashington.
CLAIMS OF COLLEGES TO PUBLIC FAVOR- KNOX COLLEGE. AN ADDRESS BY REV. GEORGE W. GALE, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN KNOX COLLEGE, ILLINOIS, DELIVERED AT THEIR ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, JULY 23, 1847.

CLAIMS OF COLLEGES TO PUBLIC FAVOR- KNOX COLLEGE. AN ADDRESS BY REV. GEORGE W. GALE, PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN KNOX COLLEGE, ILLINOIS, DELIVERED AT THEIR ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, JULY 23, 1847.

Galesburg: Southwick Davis, Printer, 1847. 15, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, lightly foxed, Good+.

This is probably the earliest Galesburg imprint; it is Southwick Davis's first, according to OCLC. Terry Tanner, amending Byrd 1088, states: "No press is known to have been active in Galesburg in 1846." [Tanner, Some Corrections and Emendations to Cecil K. Byrd's A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints.]
"This imprint preceded the appearance of a newspaper in Galesburg by almost two years...The West appealed to Gale as a place to enlarge his manual-labor theories of education and at the same time to found a religious community. He was the moving spirit in organizing a company which purchased over 10,000 acres and settled it with religious-minded families from New York and Vermont, beginning in 1836. Galesburg and Knox College grew from this settlement" [Byrd]. Gale founded, not only Galesburg and Knox College, but also, according to Wikipedia, the Oneida Community. Galesburg would serve as a stop along the Underground Railroad. Here Gale explains the importance of higher education in a republican society.
Byrd 1182. OCLC 84180049 [3- Harvard, Huntington, Pitt. Theol. Seminary], 925279220 [2- Yale, AAS] as of February 2023]. Item #31899

Price: $500.00

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