Kenyon College
Kenyon College,
at Gambier, Ohio; Episcopal; coeducational; chartered and opened 1824. It was founded by Philander ChaseChase, Philander,1775–1852, American Episcopal bishop, b. Cornish, N.H. After experience as a missionary in the West, he was elected (1818) first bishop of Ohio, where he founded Kenyon College in 1824 with funds that he secured largely in England.
..... Click the link for more information. as a theological seminary with some undergraduate work and assumed its present name in 1872. Women were first admitted in 1969. The college publishes a noted literary quarterly, the Kenyon Review.