From 1822 to 1849, Augusta College was located in Augusta, Kentucky in

Bracken County Bracken County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,488. Its county seat is Brooksville. The county was formed in 1796. Bracken County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-I ...

. It was formed when the

Bracken Academy From 1822 to 1849, Augusta College was located in Augusta, Kentucky in Bracken County. It was formed when the Bracken Academy and Methodist churches of Ohio and Kentucky joined. Augusta College was the third Methodist college founded in the Unite ...

and Methodist churches of Ohio and Kentucky joined. Augusta College was the third Methodist college founded in the United States. Its first president was Martin Ruter, D.D. It usually had enrollment of about 175–305 pupils.

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Henry Bidleman Bascom Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1850. He also distinguished himself as a circuit rider, pastor and Christian preacher; as chaplain to the U.S. House of Representat ...

(1796–1850), religious circuit rider, U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop, professor at Augusta College, college president, editor * James H. Brown (1818–1900), Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court * Orville Hickman Browning (1806-1881), member of the United States Senate from Illinois; United States Secretary of the Interior *

Alexander William Doniphan Alexander William Doniphan (July 9, 1808 – August 8, 1887) was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church ...

(1808-1887), was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the

summary execution A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without the benefit of a full and fair trial. Executions as the result of summary justice (such as a drumhead court-martial) are sometimes include ...

of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. *

John Price Durbin John Price Durbin (October 10, 1800 - October 18, 1876) was an American Methodist clergyman and educator who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate from 1831 to 1832 and president of Dickinson College from 1833 to 1844. Early life Durb ...

(1800-1876), Chaplain of the Senate, President of Dickinson College * John Gregg Fee (1816-1901), abolitionist and founder of Berea College * Edward J. Gay (1816-1889) and Edward White Robertson (1823–1887), both of whom went on to become

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from Louisiana
Randolph S. Foster
minister and later president of Northwestern University (IL) and Drew University (NJ) * John Miley, professor of theology at Drew University * Charles Clark, 24th Governor of Mississippi. * Selucius Garfielde (1822-1883), Territorial Delegate to Congress from Washington Territory *

Bela M. Hughes Bela Metcalfe Hughes (April 6, 1817 – October 3, 1902) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. Hughes played an important role in connecting the American West to the rest of the country with stagecoach lines, as well as in the early ...

(1817-1902), Lawyer and Colorado pioneer *

Charles S. Lewis Charles Swearinger Lewis (February 26, 1821 – January 22, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia. Biography Born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), Lewis attended local schools and Ohio University at Athens. He graduated fro ...

(1821 - 1878), U.S. Representative from Virginia *

Francis Asbury Morris Francis Asbury Morris (1817 – 1881) was an attorney general of the Republic of Texas. He subsequently left the practice of law and became a Methodist minister. Morris was born in Ohio in 1817 to Thomas Asbury Morris, later a Methodist bishop, an ...

(1817 – 1881), Attorney General of the

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and circuit riding minister. *

Elijah Phister Elijah Conner Phister (October 8, 1822 – May 16, 1887) was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He attended the Seminary of Rand and Richardson in Maysville, Kentucky and was graduated from Augus ...

, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky * William H. Wadsworth, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky * Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), U.S. Senator from West Virginia

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