George Franklin Seymour, 1860.

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1860

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Rev. Seymour was the first president of St. Stephen’s College. The title of warden reflected its English use, to indicate a college president. Rev. Seymour had, for several years prior, served as missionary of Annandale and had been tutoring students in the classics to prepare them for entrance into the General Theological Seminary. These six students represented the core of the first class of St. Stephen’s College. Rev. Seymour presided over the College’s first commencement in 1861, with two students receiving degrees. Warden Seymour resigned soon after, and eventually became the Bishop of Springfield, Illinois.