{"id":706,"date":"2014-11-02T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2014-12-09T11:34:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:34:41","slug":"tecumseh-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Tecumseh College"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 27, 1916, delegates from Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas met at Philadelphia FWB Church near Pattonsburg, Missouri, and organized the Co-operative General Association of Free Will Baptists.<\/p>\n

They voted to establish a denominational school, and John H Wolfe, Pawnee City, Nebraska, was elected president. Wolfe\u2019s personal library later became the basis for the historical collection at Welch\u00a0College.<\/p>\n

A group of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, businessmen met with Wolfe and proposed to buy the Indianola Business College property (pictured below) just east of Tecumseh. Then they would give the property and $1,000 cash to Free Will Baptists for a college.<\/p>\n

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By 1927, Wolfe selected five women and four men, including himself, to teach history, languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, literature, as well as theology, apologetics, missions and doctrine.<\/p>\n

Mr. and Mrs. William Fuller, Elk Creek, Nebraska, gave $500 as an endowment to the college. Thus the Fuller Professorship of Systematic Theology was established.<\/p>\n

Tecumseh offered a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Christian Letters and the Bachelor of Letters, as well as high school diplomas. At one time it had 14 full-time teachers. The library boasted 3,000 books. The record is silent on the number enrolled.<\/p>\n

The college had property, buildings, library and a faculty, but no consistent operating funds. Finances became a discouraging struggle. In 1927 after 10 years of service, the college burned to the ground.<\/p>\n

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About the Writer: Mary Wisehart served as chairman of the Free Will Baptist Historical Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 27, 1916, delegates from Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Texas met at Philadelphia FWB Church near Pattonsburg, Missouri, and organized the Co-operative General Association of Free Will Baptists. They voted to establish a denominational school, and John H Wolfe, Pawnee City, Nebraska, was elected president. Wolfe\u2019s personal library later became the basis for the historical collection at Welch\u00a0College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}