German Methodist Colleges

An interesting article by Louis Haselmayer, "German Methodist Colleges in the West," focuses on several institutions created to provide higher education in a German-speaking environment.  The article first appeared in the July 1964 issue of the Methodist History and is now available through a digital archive hosted by the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church.

Haselmayer focuses attention on:

• German Wallace College, OH [affiliated with Baldwin University, Berea, OH and ultimately merged to become Baldwin-Wallace College after 1913]
• Central Wesleyan College, Warrenton, MO
• German College, Mt. Pleasant, IA [founded in 1879 and closed in 1909; after closure, the building became part of Iowa Wesleyan College and the library and records went to Central Wesleyan College]
• German College, Charles City, IA [ founded as the German-English College in 1868 in Galena, Il.  It moved to Charles City, IA, in 1891 and merged with Morningside College in 1914]
• Blinn Memorial College, Brenham, TX [founded in 1883 and later became a public junior college after 1937]