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 MISSOURI 671 NAME OF INSTITUTION. Where situated. Denomination. Date of organi- zation. No. of teachers. No. of pupils, prepar- atory. No. of pupiu, colle- giate. Central college Fayette M. E. church, South.. Christian. . 1871 1856 1859 1873 1868 1865 1870 1853 1867 1832 1844 1844 1857 1852 1858 1869 1839 1844 6 8 "s 5 4 4 10 9 23 5 15 22 5 9 4 6 16 30 92 90 42 100 83 113 888 80 100 160 '23 145 65 isi* 92 374t 75 127 161 19 Christian university Canton St. Louis Springfield .... Hannibal College of the Christian Brothers Roman Catholic Congregational M. E. church, South Methodist Episcopal. United Presbyterian. Cumb. Presbyterian. Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Protestant Episcopal. Roman Catholic Drury college Hannibal college Lincoln college McGee college. Greenwood College Mound. St. Joseph St. Louis Palmyra St. Joseph college St. Louis university . . St. Paul's college St. Vincent's college Cape Girardeau gt Louis Washington university Westminster college William Jewell college.. Fulton Liberty Presbyterian Baptist Woodland college Independence . St. Louis Cape Girardeau. Fulton Christian Evangelical Lutheran. Roman Catholic THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS. German Evangelical Lutheran college, Concordia St. Vincent's ... .. . .... Theological school of Westminster college Vandemian school of theology Liberty Baptist 1869 1872 1867 1869 1873 1840 1841 1858 1865 1864 1870 1871 1857 5 7 10 10 5 18 10 13 13 8 10 6 16 49 84 40 15 15 ^1 164 39 8 42 183 107 89 LAW SCHOOLS. Law college of state university Columbia St Louis MEDICAL SCHOOLS. Kansas City college of physicians and surgeons Medical college of state university Kansas City.. Columbia .... Missouri medical college St Louis St. Louis medical college Columbia Missouri dental college. St. Louis college of pharmacy SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS. Agricultural and mechanical college (state university) Missouri school of mines and metallurgy (state uni- Rolla Polvtecnnic department of Washington university. . . St. Louis. . . . The leading institutions for the advanced in- struction of women are the TJrsuline academy, Mary institute, and academy of the Visitation, in St. Louis ; Christian college and Stephen's female college, Columbia ; Howard female col- lege, Fayette; Independence female college, Independence; St. Teresa's academy, Kansas City; Liberty female college, Liberty; Ingle- side female college, Palmyra ; and Lindenwood college for young ladies, St. Charles. The old- est of these are the academy of the Visita- tion, organized in 1833, and Ursuline academy, opened in 1848, both Roman Catholic. Nine of these institutions report an aggregate of 1,136 pupils, of whom 807 were in the colle- giate and 329 in preparatory studies, and 97 instructors, including 11 males. St. Louis has four commercial and business colleges, and there is one in St. Joseph and one in Kansas City. According to the census of 1870, the total number of educational institutions in Missouri was 6,750, having 9,028 teachers, of whom 3,871 were females, and 370,337 pupils. The total income of the whole was $4,340,805, of which $57,567 was from endowment, $3,- 067,449 from taxation and public funds, and $1,215,789 from tuition and other sources. Besides the 5,996 public schools, having 7,362 teachers, there were 37 colleges with 261 564 t In collegiate commercial cours VOL. xi. 43 teachers and 6,067 students, 45 academies with 333 teachers and 5,031 pupils, and 586 private schools with 770 teachers and 26,816 pupils. The total number of libraries in the state was 5,645, having 1,065,638 volumes ; 3,903 with 566,642 volumes were private, and 1,742 with 498,996 volumes other than private. Of the latter there was 1 state library, with 12,000 volumes; 11 town, city, &c., 8,097; 125 court and law, 35,104; 50 school, college, &c., 44,825; 1,283 Sabbath school, 188,493; 243 church, 96,845; and 28 circulating, 112,450. The largest libraries in the state are the St. Louis mercantile, 45,000 volumes ; St. Louis university, 25,000 ; public school library of St. Louis, 36,000; and college of the Christian Brothers, 10,000. The total number of news- papers and periodicals was 279, having an aggregate circulation of 522,866, and issuing annually 47,980,422 copies. There were 21 daily, with a circulation of 86,655 ; 5 tri-weekly, 13,800; 225 weekly, 342,361 ; 3 semi-monthly, 22,000; 23 monthly, 53,650; and 1 annual, 1,500. In 1874 there were reported 24 daily, 5 tri-weekly, 1 semi-weekly, 284 weekly, 6 semi-monthly, 30 monthly, 1 bi-monthly, and 1 quarterly ; total, 352. In 1870 the state con- tained 3,229 religious organizations, having 2,082 edifices with 691,520 sittings, and prop- erty valued at $9,709,358. The different de- nominations were represented as follows :
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