- Mount Alliance High School Class of 1905. Charles Armstrong is seated second^
on the right in the second row. Courtesy of Mary Emma Armstrong.
Mount Union College (3) was “typical of many other small liberal arts colleges in
the Midwest during the 19th century. It evolved from a modest beginning in a single
building to a modern campus of the 20th century. During the early years it was known as
a seminary. Actually it was a small struggling academy, like most other schools of that
day; but this term was used to indicate the religious emphasis. The seminary was a
success, and it acquired a college charter in 1858.” The school was traditional but also
innovative. It “was not sponsored or founded by any religious denomination – but it did
gain the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church during the Civil War years.”
Limited finances plagued the early days of the College, but, with time, and, especially
after World War II, the school expanded, the finances and endowment improved, and the
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