History Of Chapel Loma College (Mo)

Robert A. "Tony" O'Bryan-Lawson's masters thesis, "Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of American's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820-1865," is available equally a .pdf through the University of Missouri's MOspace.

O'Bryan-Lawson is an particular author as well as weaves together fabric from a multifariousness of sources to explore the life of slave asset social club inward a pocket-sized Missouri town on the western frontier as well as the factors leading A. W. Ridings to constitute an establishment at Chapel Hill that operated for 4 decades.

The author equally good notes that inward add-on to a set out of notable alumni, the demeanor upon of Chapel Hill College tin hold out traced through other institutions.  A.W. Ridings afterwards moved to Warrensburg, MO as well as was instrumental inward the founding of a normal schoolhouse that evolved to learn the University of Central Missouri.  Some of the Chapel Hill faculty went on to learn at McGee College.