Il National encyclopaedia - Wikizionario di American biografia : essendo la storia degli Stati Uniti come illustrato nella vita dei fondatori, costruttori e difensori della repubblica e degli uomini e delle donne che stanno facendo il lavoro e lo stampaggio del pensiero del tempo presente, edito da illustri biografi, scelto da ciascuno stato rivisto e approvato da i più eminenti storici, gli studiosi e gli uomini di stato del giorno . Egli hasgiven la parte migliore della sua vita, wasthat indiana di istruzione. Egli wascalled di prendere in carico il Chero-kee seminario maschio, situato a Tah-lequah, ind. Ter., capitale della

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The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . he hasgiven the best part of his life, wasthat of Indian education. He wascalled to take charge of the Chero-kee Male Seminary, located at Tah-lequah, Ind. Ter., the capital of theCherokee nation, in 1878. Herehe had under his care, for one and a half years, over100 young men and boys, and after consultationwith prominent missionaries, the work of foundinga university that should be pre-eminently a Christianinstitution, with the object of training up Christianworkmen, was entered upon. Despite obstacles inthe way, in 1880 a few students were gathered in asmall room in the Baptist mission house at Tahle-quah, and the trial of the experiment was fairly be-gun as r.n individual enterprise, the language ofProf. Eicone to himself being, With the help ofGod this one thing I do. The number of studentssoon increased, aid for beneficiary students was ob-tained from Sunday-schools and churches in theEast, and after a few terms the American BaptistHome Missionary Society assumed the partial sup-. y^—..ladiiii) Ur)iuersi^ luH^^vi..... .U.-C port of the institution. A charter was obtainedfrom the Creek Council, and money was liberallyconltibuted for the erection of a commodioiis build-ing. In 1885 a removal was made to the present lo-cation near Muskogee. The property interest in theuniversity is now about |30, 000. Five hundred andtwenty-six Indian students, representing nine tribes, have, for a longer or shorter time, enjoyed its ad-vantages. Sixty of them have been in preparationfor teaching, and thirty-three for the Christian min-

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