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Who founded
Virginia’s
colleges?
Although the College of William and Mary had been chartered in 1693, it was competition among the Protestant churches in die 18th and 19th centuries that contributed to advances in higher education in Virginia. Each denomination had to have a college, primarily for the instruction of its ministers. Following the lead of the Presbyterians, who founded Washington and HampdenSydney colleges, Methodists established Randolph-Macon and Emory and Henry, Baptists founded a seminary that later became Richmond College; Lutherans had Roanoke College; and the Disciples of Christ founded Bethany College. Churches also established three female institutes for women before 1861, two of which were the predecessors of
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