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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GAMBIER , a See also:

village of See also:College township, See also:Knox See also:county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Kokosing See also:river, 5 M. E. of See also:Mount See also:Vernon. Pop. (1900) 751; (1910) 537. It is served by the See also:Cleveland, See also:Akron & See also:Columbus railway. The village is finely situated, and is the seat of See also:Kenyon College and its theological See also:seminary, See also:Bexley See also:Hall (See also:Protestant Episcopal), and of See also:Harcourt See also:Place boarding school for girls (1889), also Protestant Episcopal. The college was incorporated in 1824 as the " Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal See also:Church in the See also:Diocese of Ohio "; See also:bat in 1891 " Kenyon College," the name by which the institution has always been known, became the See also:official See also:title. Its first exercises were held at Worthington, Ohio, in the See also:home of Philander See also:Chase (1775-1852), first Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop in the See also:North-See also:west Territory, by whose efforts the funds for its endowment had been raised in See also:England in 1823-1824, the See also:chief donors being Lords Kenyon and Gambier. The first permanent See also:building, " Old Kenyon " (still See also:standing, and used as a See also:dormitory), was erected on Gambier See also:Hill in 1827 in the midst of a See also:forest. In 1907-1908 the theological seminary had 18 students and the collegiate See also:department 119. Some See also:account of the See also:founding of the college may be found in Bishop Chase's Reminiscences; an Autobiography, comprising a See also:History of the See also:Principal Events in the Author's See also:Life to 1847 (2 vols., New See also:York, 1848).

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