The New International Encyclopædia/Kenyon College

KENYON COLLEGE. A college under the control of the Protestant Episcopal Church, incorporated in 1824 at Worthington, Ohio, under the name of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Ohio, and removed to Gambier in 1827. After many changes of place, three institutions were established—a theological seminary, a college, and a preparatory school. The corporate name was changed in 1891 to Kenyon College. In 1903 Kenyon had a faculty of 28, and a student enrollment of 109 in the college, 24 in the theological seminary, and 70 in the grammar school. The library contained 35,000 volumes. The buildings and grounds were valued at $300,000, and the whole amount of property under the control of the college at $846,000. The endowment was $501,000, and the gross income $33,000. In 1901 Senator Hanna, of Ohio, gave $60,000 for the erection of a new dormitory. Kenyon has been known as one of the first and best colleges west of the Alleghanies. It has had many distinguished graduates, among them Rutherford B. Hayes, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry W. Davis, and Stanley Matthews.