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Wilgus, James Alva / History of the Platteville Academy, 1839-1853
(1942)
Chapter II: viscissitudes (1842-1846), pp. 31-44
Page 43
HISTORY OF PLATTEVILLE ACADEMY
church in Galena, Illinois, and of Congregational churches in Dav-
enport and Lyons, Iowa. From 1862 to 1884 he was president of
Grinnell College, Iowa.
The real development of the Platteville Academy though
was at hand with the coming of Mr. J. L. Pickard in November
1846. He remained as principal for thirteen years and not only
established the institution firmly, but made it one of distinction
throughout the middle west and even beyond. To understand this,
development properly, however, requires turning aside for a little
while to the story of Platteville itself as it had come to be at this.
time.
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