Anna Sneed Cairns founded Kirkwood Seminary inwards 1861. She moved the seminary inwards 1891 together with it was renamed as
Forest Park University, closing inwards 1925 or 1926. In improver to her business office equally an educator, Cairns was likewise a leader inwards both the prohibition together with women's suffrage movements. The academy consisted of 3 colleges (Forest Park College, the School of Art together with Elocution, together with the College of Music) equally good equally a preparatory schoolhouse together with served both boarding together with twenty-four hours students.
