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Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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into a three storybrick building with frame dormitory adjoining, located on EastOkmulgee Avenue, was destroyed by fire in 1899. It was neverrebuilt but was succeeded by the Spaulding Institute which waslocated a few blocks farther east. HENRY KENDALL COLLEGE The first church organization in Muskogee was formed by thePresbyterians, under the leadership of Rev. Timothy Hill who iscredited with having preached the first sermon in the village.Some time afterward the officials of the church established a littleprivate school for the children of their parish. A little later MissAlice Robertson, present member of Congress, established theMinerva Home, a school for girls. As the population of the villageincreased the demand for more extended educational facilities be-came more pronounced, and out of these small beginnings grewHenry Kendall College, in the organization of which Miss Robert-son took a very prominent part. From 1885 to 1892 it was con- HENRY KENDALL COLLEGE (PRESBYTERIAN) TULSA
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HARRELL INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE, MUSKOGEE ; MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 455 ducted as a boarding school for white and Indian girls. In 1893boys were admitted as day students. In 18&4, with the assistanceof Henry Kendall, a wealthy member of the Presbyterian Boardof Home Missions, new buildings were added and it began to as-sume the appearance of a real college. By 1895 the school consisted of a two story building for girls,a two story dormitory for boys, a two story class room buildingand a two story boarding house. All of these buildings were offrame structure and located in what is now the center of the busi-ness section of Muskogee, on the block north of Okmulgee Avenue,between Second and Third streets. In 1898 the- Church Boardsecured title from the Creek Nation to a beautiful tract of twenty-three acres, located on Kendall Hill, overlooking the town, lyingbetween Eleventh and Fourteenth streets and extending fromBoston Avenue to Elgin Avenue and three substantial brick

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