Logan County KyArchives Biographies.....Blewitt, Benjamin T. 
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Author: Mrs. J. Wells Vick

    It was in 1853 that Mr. Blewitt took charge of Bethel High School where he
remained until 1861. In March 1856 a new charter was obtained by which Bethel
High School was transferred into Bethel College; this Principal Blewitt became
President Blewitt. Truly Baptist school history owes much to Benjamin t.
Blewitt. Spencer has this to say relative to his monumental work. "When he
undertook the enterprise it was only a high school in prospect, with unimproved
grounds; the roofed walls of a school building and an empty treasury. He left us
with one of the best college buildings in the West; its broad campus and lawn
beautifully adorned, a full and efficient faculty, one hundred and fifty
students, entire freedom of debt, and an endowment of $100,000. He had indeed, a
board of trustees of rare practical wisdom to direct his operations and plans; 
but it devolved on him to do the work. He raised the money, taught his regular
classes, exercised discipline, brought his students into college, planted
ornamental trees on the lawn with his own hands and directed the minutia of a
thousand nameless transactions necessary to the proper conduct of a young
growing institution of learning.  Let his name by properly honored by those who
enjoy the fruits of his labor."




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