University of Louisville
1846
Louisville, Kentucky, institute of higher education. Founded as the Jefferson Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1798. Operated from 1813 to 1829. Chartered in 1837 as the Louisville Collegiate Institute in Louisville. Renamed Louisville College in 1840. Acquired the former Jefferson Seminary in Louisville in 1844. Chartered as the University of Louisville by the Kentucky Legislature in 1846, which consolidated Louisville College, Louisville Medical Institute, and Louisville Law School.
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University of Louisville. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214521 (November 12, 2026).
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