Too bad Lincoln Memorial is not in Columbus. Our staff probably doesn't know where it is. . . .
Lincoln Memorial is very fine small school. A few years ago I got a tour of their relative new college of osteopathic medicine.
And, of course, I can't pass up this opportunity to pass on a little Civil War history related to the founding of LMU. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
"In 1896, General Oliver O. Howard, a former Union officer who had helped establish Howard University (named for him), embarked on a lecture tour. Howard's agent, Cyrus Kehr, suggested Howard establish a university as a living memorial to President Abraham Lincoln. On June 18, 1896, Howard spoke at the Harrow School, an elementary school at Cumberland Gap founded a few years earlier by Reverend A. A. Myers. After the lecture, Myers asked Howard for assistance in establishing a college for the Cumberland Gap region. Howard related to Myers a conversation he had with Lincoln in 1863 in which the president expressed a desire to do something to help the people of East Tennessee, a majority of whom remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War in spite of the greater state's secession, and, remembering Kehr's suggestion, agreed to help Myers establish a university in Lincoln's honor."
I might add that Lincoln very much wanted to create a loyal state of East Tennessee, much like he did by separating the western part of Virginia, and creating the new state of West Virginia. However, he lacked the legal nexus that he had in western Virginia where there was a legally recognized government for the whole state Virginia in Wheeling known as the Restored Government of Virginia, which could legally ask for the partitioning of the state. There was no such entity in eastern Tennessee.
Last Edited: 3/25/2026 11:52:21 PM by OhioCatFan