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Planning a frontier college
- When
- 1782
- Where
- Philadelphia meeting about a Carlisle college
In 1782 Benjamin Rush met John Montgomery and William Bingham in Philadelphia to discuss founding a college in Carlisle.
Rush, a physician and prominent Revolutionary-era leader, met in Philadelphia in 1782 with Montgomery and Bingham, a prominent businessman and politician. Their conversation about founding a frontier college in Carlisle took place on Bingham's porch, and "Bingham's Porch" was long a rallying cry at Dickinson. Carlisle's elite, including James Wilson, had been pushing for the grammar school's development into a college.
Sources
- Dickinson College Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-21
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