1877 Conference Minutes

1877 Conference Minutes

March 21, Grafton, West Virginia

We, your committee, to whom was referred, at our last annual session, the subject of receiving proposals for the establishment of a Conference Seminary, beg leave to report as follows:

We have received but one proposal, namely from Buckhannon, Upshur County.

This town offers to the Conference a subscription amounting to six thousand five hundred and ninety dollars ($6,590) and also a most beautiful site for the Seminary, containing over three acres of land, worth at least $1,500, making a total of $8,090.

Your committee would, in view of the very liberal offer made by the town of Buckhannon, and other considerations which need not be embodied in this report, respectfully recommend Buckhannon as the place for a Seminary under our patronage; and

We would further recommend that the Conference appoint Trustees to receive the subscriptions and donations from Buckhannon, and that they be instructed to proceed at once to the construction of such buildings as, in their judgement may be necessary for present purposes, but not to go beyond the means placed in their hands for this purpose, now or hereafter.