The Mt. Morris Fire Protection District offers a web page devoted to a burn at Mt. Morris College that occurred inwards Jan 1912. Fires are a mutual subject inwards the histories of many institutions, strengthening around too linked to eventual closure for others.
Rock River Seminary was the get-go establishment of higher pedagogy inwards northern Illinois too was established past times the Methodist Church inwards 1839. It shut inwards 1879 due to fiscal difficulty. The Church of the Brethren too thence purchased the campus too opened Mount Morris Seminary too Collegiate Institute. In 1884 the elevate changed to Mount Morris College. The establishment shut inwards 1932.