"The Kentucky Baptist Educational Society" - 1829
By William Dudley Nowlin, 1922

      An age of doctrinal polemics call[s] for well equipped defenders of the faith. The great need of the Baptists was an educated ministry. Many of their most vigorous and aggressive ministers had gone over to the Reformers [Campbellites]. A number of the enterprising ministers and laymen of the Baptist persuasion petitioned the state legislature, in January, 1829, for a charter incorporating a board of trustees called "The Kentucky Baptist Educational Society." This charter was granted. The society had in view the establishment of a college under the control of Kentucky Baptists. Both Versailles and Georgetown entered into competition to secure the location of the college. Georgetown won the prize by the gift of $6,000 and a lot of land. This, together with a gift of $20,000, donated by Isachar Paulding, constituted the property of the institution for the first ten years of its existence.

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[From William Dudley Nowlin, Kentucky Baptist History, 1770-1922, 1922, p. 46. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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