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250 Minor was allowed to occupy for a short time his residence on the University campus, and was then turned out by military authority.

The only ground of complaint against him was his political opinions. These were well known at the time of his election, and he could not change them, and never attempted to conceal them. He remained near Columbia with most of his family, now a large one (two of his sons being in the Confederate army) until the end of the four years for which he had been elected, teaching a boys' school and delivering illustrated lectures on astronomy in Columbia and other towns, with great success. His illustrative apparatus was purchased for him by that noble gentleman, Elder J. K. Rogers, president of Christian College.

In September, 1865, leading citizens of St. Louis invited President Minor to open in that city a boarding and day seminary for girls, which he did. They liberally aided him in his outfit and sent him their daughters. Four years later he suspended this school by an arrangement with one of his chief competitors, and for a time was engaged in the business of life-insurance, but finally devoted himself to lecturing on astronomy and the Bible. In this work he was seconded by every prominent educational