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The University of Missouri is established on February 11, 1839, under the Geyer Act, an act of the Missouri State Legislature that establishes the public school system of Missouri as well as the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. which will becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
The act had been introduced by congressman James S. Rollins from Boone County and named after its author, Henry Geyer.
Rollins will become known as the "Father of the University of Missouri" in part because of his support in the bill's passage.
The act had been designed after Thomas Jefferson's plan for public education in Virginia.
Most of the act will be revoked by 1841 out of practicality, but still the foundations of public education in Missouri can be traced to the passage of the Geyer Act.
To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledge $117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other central Missouri counties for the location of the state university.
The land on which the university will be constructed is just south of Columbia's downtown and owned by James S. Rollins.
The act had been introduced by congressman James S. Rollins from Boone County and named after its author, Henry Geyer.
Rollins will become known as the "Father of the University of Missouri" in part because of his support in the bill's passage.
The act had been designed after Thomas Jefferson's plan for public education in Virginia.
Most of the act will be revoked by 1841 out of practicality, but still the foundations of public education in Missouri can be traced to the passage of the Geyer Act.
To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledge $117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other central Missouri counties for the location of the state university.
The land on which the university will be constructed is just south of Columbia's downtown and owned by James S. Rollins.
Joseph Smith and the other imprisoned Church leaders are later transferred to a jail in Columbia, Missouri, where Smith’s jailers help him to escape after several months.
He flees to Illinois, where the Latter Day Saints have regrouped.
The Missouri legislature passes the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university; it is to be the first public university west of the Mississippi River.
In the year of its founding, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledge $117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other central Missouri counties for the location of the state university.
Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College (Missouri), receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly on January 15, 1851.