Soule College was an institution of higher learning in
Dodge City, Kansas, United States, that operated from 1888 until 1903. The college advertised board for $2 per week and tuition for $24 per year.
Patterson's American education, Volume 2
by Homer L. Patterson, published 1905, American Educational Company (Chicago) pages 73-76
In the late nineteenth century, Asa Titus Soule, a native of Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...
, made his fortune and reputation as the "Hop Bitters King" by peddling a patent medicine of Hop Bitters.
Looking for a place to invest his newfound millions, Soule traveled west to Kansas. He initially invested in a scheme to build an irrigation ditch across western Kansas, but soon decided to invest in higher education. In 1886 Soule partially endowed a new Presbyterian college in Dodge City with $50,000 dollars, thus giving birth to Soule College.
After the school closed, the property was eventually purchased by St. Mary of the Plains College
St. Mary of the Plains College was a four-year liberal arts college in Dodge City, Kansas, United States that closed in 1992.
History
Soule College
The roots of St. Mary of the Plains can be found in Soule College, which opened in 1888 to a ...
, which closed in 1992.
See also
* Gray County War
References
External links
Asa Titus Soule
(1824-1890) on Find a Grave
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{{Colleges and universities in Kansas
Educational institutions established in 1888
Educational institutions disestablished in 1903
Defunct private universities and colleges in Kansas
1888 establishments in Kansas
1903 disestablishments in Kansas