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Lincoln and Lee University was a Methodist Episcopal college in Kansas City, Missouri. It merged with the University of Kansas City in 1933.
History
In the 1920s, a group of Methodist Episcopal leaders decided to create Lincoln and Lee University at the intersection of 75th and State Line in Kansas City, Missouri. Its founders included philanthropist Kate B. Hewitt, former president of Centre College Ernest H. Newcomb, and Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf. Hewitt donated 143 acres of farmland for the university. Other donations expaned the campus site to 261 acres. Other donors included J. C Nichols, Henry S. Siegrist, and William Volker.
The name was selected to smooth the Northern and Southern branches of the church in Kansas City. Waldorf noted that the location in Kansas City could be healing as it was "where North met South and East met West". In addition, plans included a national memorial at the center of the campus and two tombs for unknown Federal and Confederate soldiers. A 1926 promotional brochure for donors said, "All history confirms the record. The university towers and Cathedral spires that fret the skies above the imperial cities of the world were never indispensable to their commerce or their business."
The university opened in Scofield Hall on Rockhill Road, once the home of Walter S. Dickey, publisher of the Kansas City Journal-Post. Volker purchased Dickey's 40-acre estate after his death in 1931. The fledging university had a chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon, its one and only Greek letter organization.
However, Newcomb and Waldorf's fundraising efforts only secured some $800,000 toward their goal of five million dollars, in part because their effort intersected with the 1929 stock market crash. However, the Kansas City Dental School where Hewitt's husband had been president, merged with Lincoln and Lee University. However, the university did not graduate any students.
Their effort merged with a group trying to establish a junior college, the non-sectarian University of Kansas City, with the two groups merging their assets in 1933. The University of Kansas City opened on October 2, 1933.
References
- ^ Roe, Jason. "A University is Born". KC History. The Kansas City Public Library. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
- ^ Levings, Darryl (June 15, 2018). "Before UMKC, there were dreams of a Lincoln and Lee university". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
- ^ "History of the Missouri at Kansas City Chapter". Theta Nu Epsilon Society. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2024-12-12 – via web.archive.org.