1907 College of the Sisters of Bethany Topeka Kansas

The College of the Sisters of Bethany is a defunct school located in

Topeka, Kansas Topeka ( ; Kansa language, Kansa: ; iow, Dópikˀe, script=Latn or ) is the Capital (political), capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the County seat, seat of Shawnee County, Kansas, Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the ...

, United States. The school was chartered by the

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on February 2, 1861 (although

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

was officially admitted to the

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four days earlier) and was originally named ''Episcopal Female Seminary of Topeka'' but changed its name on July 9, 1872. Classes began with 35 students and 2 teachers on June 11, 1861. The school operated under the

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church until it closed in 1928. The "territorial charter" was approved by the legislature on January 29, 1861—the same day that

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signed the Act of Congress admitting Kansas into the Union as a state. However, Territorial governor

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returned the bill with objections. The legislature considered his objections and passed the bill with enough of a majority to overcome the governor's objections on February 2. This was the last legislative act of the Kansas Territorial government.Thirty years in Topeka: a historical sketch
by Frye William Giles, p184

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