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George Washington Gale (1789–1861), founding father of Knox College Old Main, the oldest building on the campus of Knox College. Knox College was founded as Knox Manual Labor College by Presbyterians and Congregationalists from New York state organized by George Washington Gale, who previously had founded the Oneida Institute. [3]
Old Main is the oldest building on the campus of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Completed in 1857, it is a distinctive Gothic Tudor design of Swedish architect Charles Ulricson . It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 as one of the few surviving sites to host one of the famous 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates .
Knox College may refer to: Knox College (Illinois), a liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, US; Knox College (Jamaica), a junior school, high school, and community college in Spaldings, Jamaica; Knox College, Otago, a hall of residence and school of ministry at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Knox College (The high school part of the Knox Complex of Schools) is a co-educational high school for both day pupils and boarders in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. The other institutions that form the complex are: the Neighbourhood Early Childhood Institute , Knox Junior School , and Knox Community College .
Knox College is a selective [2] residential college, founded and operated by the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and affiliated with University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The college is set in a 4.57 hectares (11.3 acres) landscaped site in Opoho on the opposite side of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens from the university.
Student dissatisfaction led to a mass walk-out in 1832, with about 24 students leaving for Lane, then Oberlin. Gale soon desired to be replaced; he went to Illinois, where he began Galesburg, Illinois, and the Knox Manual Labor College, which in 1857 became Knox College. Gale left the institute with "fiscal problems", saddled with "numerous ...
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Later she followed her older sister Betsy to Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. [2] While in college, Carlson was active in the school's theatre department, appearing in Fifth of July, Noises Off, A Lie of the Mind, and The School for Scandal. She directed the play Aunt Dan and Lemon written by Wallace Shawn on her senior year.