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[edit] Georgetown College
I removed the claim that he founded GC. That is an overstatement. From the GC web site: "In 1829 Silas Noel, a Frankfort lawyer, jurist, and minister, led twenty-four Baptist leaders in persuading the Kentucky legislature to charter the Kentucky Baptist Education Society, which considered locating the college in several counties and on the Transylvania University campus in Lexington. Instead, the citizens of Georgetown convinced the Society’s trustees to establish the college in their community by offering to raise $20,000 and by donating the assets of the defunct Rittenhouse Academy, which included a fifty-two-acre campus and land in western Kentucky. Rev. Elijah Craig, a Baptist minister, founded the Academy, in 1798, a land grant school for the community, after his 1787 classical school had failed. The college traces its roots to that early school." Georgetown College web site --FloNight 22:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inconsistent Dates?
The article states "He then moved to what was then Bourbon County, Kentucky and settled in the area of Frankfort, Kentucky in 1785. In 1777, he became pastor of Blue Run Church." It might make more sense if that first date were 1775 (not 1785). Can anyone confirm? Cdeel (talk) 22:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
