Daughters College
1856-07-25 to 1893
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, institution of higher education for young ladies, founded by John Augustus Williams in 1856. First organized as Greenville Springs Institute by Mr. Wilson in the 1820s. Name changed to Greenville Institute when purchased by Samuel Mullins in 1846. Purchased by father and son, Charles Edwin Williams and John Augustus Williams, on July 25, 1856, when the name was changed to Daughters College. The family continued to run the college until its dissolution in 1893.
Bibliography
History of Daughters College (1856-1893) and Its Founder John Augustus Williams, [n.p.] 1900.https://archive.org/stream/historyofdaughte00bour/historyofdaughte00bour_djvu.txt (accessed on December 16, 2019). Harp, Scott, “John Augustus Williams,”History of the Restoration Movement,
https://www.therestorationmovement.com/_states/kentucky/williams,ja.htm (accessed December 17, 2019).
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Daughters College. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208327 (November 12, 2026).
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