-
  '
l
f 124 REPORT OF THE TREASURER. _
f property will be appropriate at this time, taking them in the
— order in which they have come into our hands. i
. THE BACON Co1.LEoE FUND.   _
. 5 I · \
, In 1836, owing to a disagreement between the Trustees of
the present Georgetown College and TI·IORN'1`ON F. ]o1—1NsoN, fl
S. G. MULL1Ns, and one or two other members of the Faculty
i of that College, these gentlemen dissolved their connection with
I that Institution, and the two above named, being members of
the Christian Church, gathered around them the sympathies of .1 A
their brethren, and organized without a charter Bacon College. _
  The writer, at that time a boy of twelve years of age, responded _
to the call of the first bell that summoned students to its halls,
and having been connected with it and its successor through all T
· its varied fortunes from that day to this, either as a student or
T I officer, has a personal knowledge of its history and affairs. Its **0 ‘
· friends obtained for it a simple charter, with a self—perpetuating
Board of Trustees, without any very extended or well-defined
A r scope or plan of organization. Under the excitement of the —
i denominational war which sprung up over its birth, it suddenly
A grew up with a full faculty and a large number of students, who
were attracted mainly by the peculiar advantages which Professor
JOHNSON offered in it as a civil-engineering school. For three
years it was successfully supported by the fees and the liberal
contributions of a few friends. In 1839 a proposition was made ll
for its endowment, and a tender of its location was made to the
town or county which would give the largest bonus. It was •
awarded to Mercer County, a number of citizens of all churches - -
and of no church having promised to give $50,000 for its endow-
ment. It was removed to Harrodsburg in the fall of 1839. The `
‘ l pledges made for the $50,000 were not redeemed. But a small I • ‘
Q portion of it was realized, and it soon became embarrassed. `
Other funds were raised from time to time for it throughout the
state by L. L. P1NRERToN, A. G. T,x1.1soTT, and others, which ‘ ·
} were absorbed in the payment of its debts. After a series of in
\ ..   a.