Daughters College (Harrodsburg, Ky.)

found: Daughters College (Harrodsburg, Ky.). 2nd Annual Announcement of Daughters' College, 1856-57:title page (Daughters College, near Harrodsburg, Kentucky)

found: Wikipedia website, viewed September 28, 2015:List of Current and Historical Women's Universities and Colleges in the United States page (Beaumont College, Kentucky started as Baptist-affiliated Greenville Female Institution (1841-1856). When Dr. Samuel Mullens sold the school to John Augustus Williams (the founder of Christian College in Columbia, Mo. and president of Bacon College when it was located in Harrodsburg), Williams changed the name to Daughters College and advertised that it could handle 100 students offering Philosophy, English language and literature, mathematics, natural science, history, ancient and modern languages, Bible studies, and fine arts. The college graduated classes of 2 to 17 each year; and after they added a regular normal department, produced more than 1/3 of all its graduates as teachers. In 1895 he sold it to Col. Thomas Smith, a graduate of University of Virginia and Confederate veteran, who taught the students seven different languages. It was he who changed the name to Beaumont College. It closed in 1917 and one of the graduates turned it into an inn to accommodate the high demand for accommodations from its graduates who wanted to return for vacations and class reunions.