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    Rutersville is an unincorporated community in central Fayette County, Texas, United States. Rutersville College was located in the community during the...
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    Rutersville in Fayette County, Texas, United States. Chartered under the Republic of Texas in 1840, Rutersville College was Texas's first institution of higher...
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    granted by the Texas Legislature (Texas Congress 1836–1845) to establish four educational institutions: Rutersville College of Rutersville, Texas, Wesleyan...
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    in Rutersville, Texas, Robert S. Munger invented additional system ginning techniques. Robert and his wife, Mary Collett, later moved to Mexia, Texas, built...
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    1840 as Rutersville College, while the oldest continually operating post-secondary institution is Baylor University, founded in 1845. Texas A&M University...
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    July 20, 1840, and remains active in the states of California, Ohio, and Texas today. Now open to members of any heritage, the order provides low-cost...
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    university in Texas; however, Rutersville College was chartered in 1840 with land and the town of Rutersville. Chauncey Richardson was elected Rutersville first...
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    Robert S. Munger (category Trinity University (Texas) alumni)
    Texas. Munger was also a philanthropist who supported causes in the Birmingham, Alabama area. Robert Sylvester Munger was born in Rutersville, Texas on...
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  • census-designated places. List of cities in Texas List of cities in Texas by population "Adkins, TX". Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved...
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    Fayetteville, Warrenton, and Rutersville. There is a post office currently functioning on FM 2503 in Ellinger, said by the Texas State Historical Association...
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    Martin Ruter (section Texas)
    vision was realized in 1840 with the founding of Rutersville College and the formation of the Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1901...
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    George Wythe Baylor (category Members of the Texas Ranger Division)
    came to Texas while still a boy, stopped at Ross Prairie, Fayette county, and went to school for a while to Professor William Halsey at Rutersville, and...
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  • Creek. Farm to Market Road 2981 (FM 2981) runs from SH 159, northeast of Rutersville, northwestward to FM 2145. Farm to Market Road 2982 (FM 2982) runs from...
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    Soule University (category Defunct private universities and colleges in Texas)
    Male and Female Institute and was intended to succeed the struggling Rutersville College. Soule was beset by financial challenges after the American Civil...
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  • John Christopher Columbus Hill (category People from Fayette County, Texas)
    was later educated with the Hill children at the newly founded Rutersville College in Texas, while John C.C. Hill attended college in Mexico. When news came...
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  • Reinhard Hillebrand (category Texas Republicans)
    United States, settling in Fayette County, Texas. During the Civil War, Hillebrand organized the Rutersville German Company, which was a company of volunteer...
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    their aunt, Jane Trimble of Galveston, took charge of them. She attended Rutersville College from 1845 to 1848. Fisher's fondness for literature was shown...
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  • Chappell Hill Female College (category Education in Washington County, Texas)
    cattlewoman: graduated 1859 Soule University Rutersville College Macum Phelan, A History of Early Methodism in Texas, 1817–1866, Nashville, Tennessee: Richmond...
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  • South Georgia State College, 2012 Southwestern University – merger of Rutersville College, Wesleyan College, McKenzie College, and Soule University, 1873...
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  • Galveston, Texas, landing there on November 22, 1848. From there they went by ox-cart to Fayette County, Texas, ultimately settling between the Rutersville township...
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