In 1900, three physicians founded the University of Dallas Medical Department in Dallas, although a university by that name did not exist. In 1892, Baylor University had two buildings, Old Main and Burleson Hall Around 1887, Baylor University began readmitting women and became coeducational again. A Baylor College Park still exists in Independence in memory of the college's history there. It later became known as the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
That same year, the Baylor Female College also was moved to a new location, Belton, Texas. At the time, Rufus Burleson, Baylor's second president, was serving as the local college's president. It merged with a local college called Waco University. Because Independence lacked a railroad line, university fathers began searching for a location to build a new campus.īeginning in 1885, Baylor University moved to Waco, Texas, a growing town on the railroad line. Following the war, the city of Independence slowly declined, primarily caused by the rise of neighboring cities being serviced by the Santa Fe Railroad. He worked vigorously to sustain the university during the Civil War, when male students left their studies to enlist in the Confederate Army and serve Texas in various military campaigns. Along with Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross famous Confederate General and later President of Texas A&M University.ĭuring the American Civil War, the Baylor president was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of the future U.S.
Some of those early students were, Temple Lea Houston, son of President Sam Houston, a famous western gun-fighter and attorney. Many of the early leaders of the Republic of Texas, such as Sam Houston, later sent their children to Baylor to be educated. During this time, Baylor thrived as the only university west of the Mississippi offering instruction in law, mathematics and medicine. Baylor University became an all-male institution. In 1851, Baylor's second president Rufus Columbus Burleson decided to separate the students by gender, making the Baylor Female College an independent and separate institution. Rufus Columbus Burleson, future Baylor President, in the Brazos River. In 1854, Houston was also baptized by the Rev. The famous Texas revolutionary war leader and hero Sam Houston gave the first $5,000 donation to start the university. Although these three men are credited as being the founders of the university, many others worked to see the first university established in Texas and thus they were awarded Baylor's Founders Medal. He is considered the third founding father of the university. James Huckins, the first Southern Baptist missionary to Texas, was Baylor's first full-time fundraiser. The founders built the original university campus in Independence, Texas. 1, 1845, officially establishing Baylor University. Republic President Anson Jones signed the Act of Congress on Feb. In the fall of 1844, the Texas Baptist Education Society petitioned the Congress of the Republic of Texas to charter a Baptist university. Congressman and soldier from Alabama, became the school's namesake. Baylor, a Texas district judge and onetime U.S. Baylor to establish a Baptist university in Texas, then a self-declared republic still claimed by Mexico. In 1841, 35 delegates to the Union Baptist Association meeting voted to adopt the suggestion of Rev.
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