Soule College
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Soule College was an institution of higher learning in Dodge City, Kansas, United States, that operated from 1888 until 1903. The college advertised board for $2 per week and tuition for $24 per year.[1]
In the late nineteenth century, Asa Titus Soule, a native of Rochester, New York, made his fortune and reputation as the "Hop Bitters King" by peddling a patent medicine of Hop Bitters.
Looking for a place to invest his newfound millions, Soule traveled west to Kansas. He initially invested in a scheme to build an irrigation ditch across western Kansas, but soon decided to invest in higher education. In 1886 Soule partially endowed a new Presbyterian college in Dodge City with $50,000, thus giving birth to Soule College.
After the school closed, the property was eventually purchased by St. Mary of the Plains College, which closed in 1992.
See also
- Gray County War
References
- ^ Patterson's American education, Volume 2 by Homer L. Patterson, published 1905, American Educational Company (Chicago) pages 73-76
External links
- Asa Titus Soule (1824-1890) on Find a Grave
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