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Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
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Gardiner Lathrop corrects an error in the Founder's Day program claiming the University of Missouri was closed in 1862-1863 due to the Civil War, stating that his father ensured continuity by graduating classes those years, with examples like J. V. C. Karnes and Henry N. Ess.
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Gardiner Lathrop Corrects Error in Founder's Day Program.
Under the heading 'Missouri University Dates,' the program of the recent Founder's Day celebration contained this note:
'1862-1863. University closed on account of Civil War.'
Gardiner Lathrop of Chicago, son of Dr. J. H. Lathrop, the first and third president of the University, writes that this is an error.
'While it is true that the military authorities occupied a part of the University building,' he says, 'it is likewise true that my father, as chairman of the faculty, kept the University alive and preserved its continuity by graduating classes both in 1862 and 1863.
Honorable J. V. C. Karnes, lately deceased, and recently president of the Board of Curators, was a member of the class of 1862, and Mr. Henry N. Ess of Kansas City received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in the year 1863.'
Mr. Lathrop, a former president of the Board of Curators, attended the Founder's Day gathering in Chicago.
'There were about forty graduates and old students present,' he writes. 'Dr. L. M. Defoe made a masterful address recounting the life and public services of the Honorable James Sidney Rollins, justly named the 'Father of the University.''
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University Of Missouri, Chicago
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1862 1863
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Gardiner Lathrop writes to correct the Founder's Day program error stating the University was closed in 1862-1863 due to Civil War; military occupied part of building but Dr. J. H. Lathrop kept it operational, graduating classes including Karnes in 1862 and Ess in 1863; Lathrop attended Chicago gathering where Defoe addressed Rollins as university father.