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1830's&#13;
Cincinnati, Ohio</text>
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                <text>Some of these documents are letters detailing Lyman Beecher's acceptance as president of the seminary. Other documents spell out the charter to incorporate the seminary. A Cincinnati newspaper article tells of the establishment of Lane Seminary. </text>
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&lt;p&gt;(Lane 049)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 1              Having become acquainted with the design &amp;amp; char-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 2              acter of the Lane Theological Seminary, we cheerfully&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 3              recommend it to the benevolent as needing &amp;amp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 4              deserving their liberal patronage.  Its plan em-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 5              braces a course of study similar to that of our&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 6              best Theological Seminaries; its system of manual&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 7              labor is well fitted for a new country &amp;amp; its loca-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 8              tion in the heart of the west will afford peculiar fa-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 9              cilities of usefulness throughout the whole extent of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 10            the great Western Valley. We therefore regard its object&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 11            as one of common interest to all who feel the im-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 12            portance of systematic efforts to furnish the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 13            means of a thorough education for the Christian&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 14            ministry in the Western States.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Lane_050)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 15                        &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Philadelphia&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;June&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;1830&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 16                                                            Lyman Beecher&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 17            Samuel H. Cox                        &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;E. Cornelius &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 18                                                            B.H. Rice&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 19            W.D. Snodgrass                      Saml. Fisher&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 20            J.M. Mathews                         Tho H [unclear]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 21            Nath. W. Taylor                      John McDowell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 22            Joel A. Lingley                        William A. Mc McDowell&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 23            J. Hawes                                 Jos. Sanford&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 24            E. Porter                                  T. [McAuley].&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 25            Mosses Stuart&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 26            John Brown                            J. Edwards&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 27            Sam Green                              Samuel Miller&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 28            [unclear] [unclear]                   A. Alexander&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 29            William Jenks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 30            Leonard Woods                       C. Hodge&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 31            Warren Fay&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 31            B.B. [unclear]                          William Patton&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 32            D.C. [Lansing]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 33            S.C. [Aikin]                            J.C. Brigham&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 34            James Richards                       Gardiner [unclear]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 35            Henry Mills                             Cyrus Mason&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Line 36            Absalom Peters                       W.W. [Phillip]&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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Sara Smith, Transcriber </text>
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