found: Touchstone, 1937-
found: NUCMC data from Andover Newton Theol.Sch. Lib. for Park, E.A. Papers, 1835-1899(Amherst College)
found: Tyler, W.S. A hist. of Amherst Coll., 1895(Amherst Academy, the "mother" of Amherst College; trustees of Academy, also trustees of college during early days of college; Academy opened 1814; in 1815 estab. Charity Fund (rec'd contributions from thousands of people throughout NE states) for purpose of providing free instruction to young men seeking ministerial training; cornerstone laid 1820 for Collegiate Institution (on property adjacent to the Academy); in 1824 chartered as Amherst College; in 1815 controversy arose concerning poss. move of Williams College to a more centralized location; also of possible merger of the two colleges; petitions denied by Mass. legis.)
found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014(Founded 1821)
found: Wikipedia, June 7, 2016(Amherst College; a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts; founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its president, Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts; was established as a men's college and became coeducational in 1975; member of the Five Colleges consortium)