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Kentucky Wesleyan College began as the dream
of Kentucky Methodists in the early days of the
Commonwealth and in 1858, the college was founded at
Millersburg. Classes began in 1866 following the Civil War. The
College moved to Winchester in 1890 and soon became one the
first institutions of higher learning in Kentucky to admit women.

The Wesleyan story in Owensboro began in the late 1940s
when Talmage Hocker and “Ham” Glenn, cornerstones of the
Alumni Club in the city, along with V. E. Anderson, Marshall
Barnes, T. J. Bartlett, Ed Gipe, Delbert Glenn, Lawrence Hager,
D. D. Heltsley, Harry Holder Sr., John Medley, William O’Bryan,
W. H. Parker, E. Kelley Short and J. W. Snyder, led the effort to
bring the college to Owensboro from Winchester.

The campus relocated to Owensboro in 1951 with classes
in numerous buildings downtown, including Settle Memorial
and First Christian churches, with an auditorium at Seventh and
Frederica and the library at City Hall. The present campus, then
in the countryside south of town, opened in 1954.

Today, Wesleyan offers almost 40 majors and graduates are
admitted to prestigious graduate and professional programs of
choice nationwide. The college’s most popular majors include
the sciences, education, psychology, music, criminal justice and
criminology, and business administration and accounting.
Kentucky Wesleyan student-athletes compete in 17 NCAA
Division II sports in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, and
they consistently earn academic honors. The men’s basketball
team has won eight national championships.

Over 2,500 Wesleyan graduates live and work in Owensboro/
Daviess County. Barton D. Darrell ’84 became the thirty-fourth
president of the college in 2014. Kentucky Wesleyan is a United
Methodist-related institution and is recognized for excellence annually
by Princeton Review, U. S. News and World Report and
Washington Monthly.

Since 1951, Kentucky Wesleyan College has impacted thousands
of graduates and its graduates have, in turn, impacted
countless people. The Wesleyan influence is immeasurable.<ref name="heritage" />



==References==
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<ref name="heritage">Daviess County Kentucky, Celebrating our Heritage 1815-2015, M.T. Publishing Company, Inc</ref>
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