Remembering A Tragic Burn Downwards At Tabor College

The Hillsboro Star-Journal published an article, "Tabor goes upwards inwards smoke," written yesteryear Rowena Plett.  Plett describes a devastating mail away at Tabor College that rapidly destroyed the principal campus edifice on Apr 30, 1918.  She besides explores how the campus in addition to community pulled together in addition to were able to live on this tragic event. 

The Mennonite Archival Image database offers several images of the edifice engulfed inwards flames in addition to the Kansas Historical Society's Kansas Memory projection includes a photograph of a composite function of paint, sliced brick, in addition to slate yesteryear Professor Solomon Loewen, at the Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies at Tabor College, depicting a edifice burning.

Commemorating A Tragic Burn At Penn College

Wilcox Library of William Penn University inwards Oskaloosa, IA posted several fascinating sets of photos yesterday on Fb commemorating a burn downwards May 27, 1916 that destroyed the Old Main of what was as well as then Penn College. The library's posts include images of telegrams of back upwards from to a greater extent than or less the country, paper articles amongst reports of the burn downwards as well as the cleanup. College business director Robert Williams as well as pupil Harry Oakley lost their lives when walls collapsed.

The posts banking concern notation that Old Main was constructed inwards 3 phases amongst the offset W fly department funded past times the Iowa Union College Association of Friends as well as completed inwards 1873. The key fly was completed inwards 1877 as well as funded past times the Quakers. The 3rd as well as terminal E fly was completed inwards 1890 as well as funded past times the citizens of Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Mount Morris College (Il)

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.