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Judson College Alabama's only college specifically for women, Judson College was founded by Baptists in 1838 to provide women with a higher education. Located in Marion, Perry County, Judson was the nation's fifth oldest women's college and home of the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.
Under the guidance of Benjamin P. Browne, the college and seminary president, Judson College was founded along the shores of the Fox River in Elgin in 1963. [6] The college was named after Adoniram Judson, the first American missionary abroad, who went to Burma in 1813 and would spend 37 years overseas. [6]
Julia Tarrant Barron (1805–1890) was a founder of Judson College in Marion, Alabama, and Howard College, renamed subsequently to Samford University now located in Homewood, Alabama.
The American University named in his honor, Judson University was founded in Elgin, Illinois, in 1963, as the liberal arts Judson College was separated from the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, which moved from Chicago to Lombard, Illinois.
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Judson College students and faculty partnered with Alabama Baptists in missions work too. Hearing God’s call to local and international ministry, students prepared themselves to be of use. Even now, they continue to lead in local churches, associational and state ministries. No matter how large or small the task, countless women answered God’s call...
Judson’s loss extends into Marion and Perry County. Frances Ford, outstanding alumna and executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, expressed it well: Not only “we but the community will suffer and will feel the hurt and the devastation of losing that college. Judson was a college that encouraged you to give back.” The doors of Judson College may ...
By Jennifer Davis Rash TAB Media As Norman H. McCrummen III, son of the late former president of Judson College, shared memories about the school and the area, current Judson President Daphne Robinson found herself reflecting, grieving and healing. McCrummen spoke during a special adapted form of Rose Sunday at Siloam Baptist Church in Marionon Sep...
Alabama's only college for women, Judson College was founded in 1838 in Marion, the county seat of Perry County. A Baptist-affiliated institution, Judson was the nation's fifth oldest women's college until its closure in 2021.
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Judson College in Marion, Alabama, is the state's only college exclusively for women and one of the six oldest women's colleges in the nation. Founded in 1838, it was named for Ann Hasseltine...
