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Book Title: Memorial And Biographical History Of Northern California

NAPA COLLEGE, of which Rev. J. N. Beard, D. D., is President, was first
established as a Collegiate Institute in 1870, and received its charter as a
college in 1885. The main building was erected about the beginning of the civil
war, and a private school was conducted in it until it was purchased by a board
of trustees who represent the California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. For the past twenty years an institution of learning has been
continuously and successfully maintained under their management. The school is,
and has been from the first, self-sustaining; but within the last year
contributions toward an endowment fund have been received which now amount to
about $25,000. The campus comprises about five acres of ground, and is
beautifully situated and laid out. The college enrolls about 200 students.

  Dr. Beard was born near Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana, in 1850. He
attended the public schools and the academy of his native county, and afterward
the State Normal Schools of Indiana and of New York, and De Pauw University.
After teaching for several years, he entered the pastorate, having charge
successively of churches in Frankfort, La Fayette, Terre Haute and Indianapolis,
Indiana. In 1884 he removed to California, and took charge of Central Methodist
Church in San Francisco. After a successful pastorate of three years, he was
elected to the position which he now occupies. Though in the early prime of
life, he has had a wide experience, and as a preacher and lecturer has addressed
large audiences of the most intelligent people in widely separated centers of
population and influence. His present position at the head of one of the most
rapidly growing and aggressive educational institutions of the State gives him a
relation of peculiar interest and influence to the young men and young women of
Northern California.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.



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