by Lloyd A. Hunter
Indiana Historical Society Press, 2011
eISBN: 978-0-87195-344-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87195-290-5
Library of Congress Classification E506.5 18th.S76 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7472092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
William Taylor Stott was a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College, who later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy in 1872 to its place as a leading liberal arts institution in Indiana. The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was not confined to the school’s parameters. Stott was an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, and a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863. Stott’s diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar.