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Letter from Selinsgrove to Kurtz regarding the Missionary Institute Site Selection

MLA citation style
Letter From Selinsgrove To Kurtz Regarding The Missionary Institute Site Selection. no date. 1858Mar .
APA citation style
(1858). Letter from Selinsgrove to Kurtz regarding the Missionary Institute Site Selection. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aasvbw150_22
Chicago citation style
“Letter From Selinsgrove To Kurtz Regarding The Missionary Institute Site Selection”, Susquehanna University - 1858 to 1894, March 12, 1858. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aasvbw150_22.
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Title

Letter from Selinsgrove to Kurtz regarding the Missionary Institute Site Selection

Subject

Universities & colleges
Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Institute
Susquehanna University
Correspondence

Description

Benjamin Kurtz, the Missionary Institute founder and 1st President, had put out the word that he wanted to start a school where men could learn how to be teachers of the Gospel. For the location he was seeking a farm of about fifty or sixty acres, close to a city or large town and a railroad. This document is the formal letter from the citizens of Selinsgrove announcing their subscription of $22,000 and fifty students that could attend the first year of the school's opening.

Date

1858-03-12

Location Covered

Selinsgrove – Snyder – Pennsylvania – United States

Type

Image

Original Format

Correspondence

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

SUH-1858-0042.jpg

Language

English

Relation

Archives safe

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Contact

For information on sources and images, contact the Blough-Weis Library, Susquehanna University, 514 University Avenue, Selinsgrove, PA 17870, http://library.susqu.edu/ask .

Contributing Institution

Susquehanna University

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.