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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 1925, 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. The name was selected to smooth the Northern and Southern branches of the church in Kansas City. Its founders included philanthropist Kate B. Hewitt, high school and college administrator Ernest H. Newcomb, and Methodist Bishop E. L. Waldorf. Hewitt donated farmland for the university. One of it main donors was Henry S. Siegrist.

The university had a chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon. It did not graduate any students.

Their effort merged with a group trying to establish another four-year 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

  1. ^ Roe, Jason. "A University is Born". KC History. The Kansas City Public Library. Retrieved 2024-12-12.
  2. ^ "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.