Wesleyan Female Institute

Wesleyan Female Institute was a college for women in Staunton, Virginia, founded by the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1846.^[1][2] Its former site is a parking lot next to the Methodist church, across the street from Trinity Church, from 1850 to 1870.^[3][4] The first classes were held in the basement of the Methodist church, then moved to the Chandler Building before securing the spot next to the Methodist church. After 1870, the school moved to Madison Place.^[5] The school went bankrupt in 1900.^[6]

Wesleyan Female Institute

Type	Women's college
Active	1846–1900
Affiliation	Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Location	Staunton , Virginia , US

Notable people

Alumni

• Lena Northern Buckner, social worker

Presidents

• Rev. J. R. Finch^[7]
• William S. Baird (1860–1866)^[8]
• Rev. William A. Harris, (1877–1885)^[9][10]

References

1. Peyton, John Lewis (2 December 1882). History of Augusta County, Virginia. Samuel M. Yost & son – via Internet Archive. Wesleyan Female Institute staunton.
2. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Directory, Containing an Illustrated History and Description of the Road p. 293
3. "The Wesleyan Female Institute Historical Marker".
4. "Augusta County Heritage Topical". S. E. Grose – via Google Books.
5. "History of Staunton". www2.iath.virginia.edu.
6. Callahan, S. Alice (2 December 1997). Wynema: A Child of the Forest. U of Nebraska Press – via Internet Archive.
7. Armstrong, James Edward (2 December 2018). "History of the Old Baltimore Conference from the Planting of Methodism in 1773 to the Division of the Conference in 1857". author – via Google Books.
8. "Rev. Edmund Wesley Kirby" (PDF).
9. Wesleyan Female Institute (2 December 1879). "Annual announcement Wesleyan Female Institute" – via Internet Archive.
10. Historical Atlas of Augusta County