- Racine College
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Racine College East Building showing tunnel heading east toward Lake Michigan
Racine College's chapel, St. John's Church, showing the west side of the building. If you look closely, you can see "Class of" stones set into the brickwork.
Class of 1870 stone in Racine College's chapel wall.
Gymnasium of Racine CollegeRacine College was an Episcopal college in Racine, Wisconsin, founded in 1852.[1] The collegiate department closed in 1887, but the college continued to be used as a grammar school and a military school until it closed in 1933.[2]
Racine and the University of Michigan inaugurated college football in the Midwest with a match played on May 30, 1879. Michigan won, 1-0.[3]
Racine College's most notable warden was the Rev. Dr. James DeKoven (1831–1879).
Henry Douglas Robinson (born March 15, 1859) became warden on June 6, 1899. A graduate of the collegiate department of the college in 1884, he was ordained to the diaconate by William Ingraham Kip on September 19, 1886, and subsequently to the priesthood. In 1889 he became rector of the Racine College Grammar School. He served subsequently as missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church's Missionary District of Nevada. He died on December 18, 1913.
In 1935, the Community of Saint Mary began to use the grounds and buildings of the former Racine College, renaming it the DeKoven Foundation for Church Work.
Notable people
- Gen. Mark W. Clark, student
- Bishop Robert Harper Clarkson DD 1857
- James DeKoven, warden
- Samuel Cook Edsall, student, became an Episcopal Church bishop
- A. J. Horlick, student (son of William Horlick)
- Ernest de Koven Leffingwell, student; explorer and geologist
- Tad Lincoln, student (son of President Abraham Lincoln)[4]
- Brig. Gen. William Billy Mitchell, student[5]
- Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice, student (author and designer of Chicago flag)
- Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr., student (U. S. Naval Commander and first husband of the Duchess of Windsor)
- Maj. Gen. Eben Swift, student
- Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, professor
- John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Suprme Court
References
- ^ http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=browse&volume=35&articleID=19098
- ^ Racine: Growth and Change in a Wisconsin County, edited by Nicholas C. Burckel, published 1977.
- ^ Football
- ^ Wisconsin Trails
- ^ Racine: The Belle City, by Alice Sankey, published in 1958 by Western Publishing
External links
Categories:- Anglo-Catholicism
- Episcopal Church in the United States of America
- Seminaries and theological colleges in Wisconsin
- Anglican seminaries and theological colleges
- Universities and colleges in Wisconsin
- Buildings and structures in Racine County, Wisconsin
- Racine, Wisconsin
- Christianity in Wisconsin
- Educational institutions established in 1852
- National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
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