Mary Baldwin Female Seminary History - VA Genealogy

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History of
Mary Baldwin Seminary
1842-1905
By Joseph A. Waddell
Published 1905, 100 pages
- Bonus Book -
Sesquicentennial History of
Mary Baldwin College
1842-1992
By Patricia Menk
Published 1992, 525 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
- Bonus Book -
Handbook of
American Private Schools
By Porter & Sargent
Published 1916, 605 pages
- Bonus Book -
The Mary Baldwin Bulletin
Alumnai Issue 1961
Published 1961, 44 pages, Illustrated
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Mary Baldwin College was founded in 1842 as Augusta Female Seminary. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher
education for women in the United States.
It was founded by Rufus William Bailey, a minister and teacher from Maine and a graduate of Dartmouth College and
Andover Theological Seminary. After plans for the school were approved by the ministers and members of the Presbyterian
churches of Staunton and Augusta County, a self-perpetuating board of control was set up, and the Seminary opened
with Bailey as first principal. The first charter was granted to the Seminary by the Virginia General Assembly in 1845
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The school's first building, now the Administration Building, was built adjacent to the First Presbyterian Church of
Staunton. In 1872 the church building and land were given to the school. Until it was demolished in 1962, the building
was known as Waddell Chapel in memory of Joseph Addison Waddell, secretary of the Board of Trustees for more than
fifty years. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States, was baptized in the chapel building
in 1857, his father, the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, being minister of the First Presbyterian Church at the time and
serving also as chaplain to the Augusta Female Seminary.
It is possible that the Seminary might not have survived the Civil War period except for Mary Julia Baldwin, who became
principal in 1863. The courage and ingenuity of Baldwin and her assistant, Agnes McClung, enabled the school to
remain open when nearly every other school in the Shenandoah Valley was forced to close because the Valley was a
continual battlefield for the Union and Confederate armies.
After the reconstruction period, the Seminary expanded and prospered under Baldwin's leadership. The academic level of
the curriculum was raised until it was the equivalent of colleges and universities for the higher classes. In 1895 the name
of the institution was changed, at the request of the Board of Trustees and by act of "the valuable services and unparalleled
success of the Principal." Baldwin was principal until she died in 1897. At her death the Seminary received the bulk of
her property, which, with the gifts already given by her, amounted to a substantial endowment for that time.
Subsequent administrators were Ella C. Weimar and Marianna P. Higgins. The Seminary became Mary Baldwin Junior
College in 1916 and a four-year college in 1923, when the name was changed to Mary Baldwin College. It is related to the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and is governed by a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees.
The oldest tradition on the Mary Baldwin campus is the secret society know as the The Chevaliers, meaning the female
knights, they have been linked to Washington & Lee's Cadavers
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