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Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the celebrated 

 missionary and philologist of Cape Pal mas. The Rev^ John Payne 

 made the suggestion to the Hon. Simon Greenleaf of Boston of 

 establishing a School of Theology. Greenleaf and those who were 

 working with him for philanthropical objects in Liberia decided that 

 the college had better be placed in the vicinity of Monrovia and that 

 it should be unsectarian. In 1850 a Board of Trustees under the 

 title of the " Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia " was 

 incorporated in Massachusetts. In 1851 the Legislature of Liberia 



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passed an xAct incorporating Liberia College. In 1857 ex-President 

 J. J. Roberts was appointed the Principal of this College, and together 

 with Mrs. Roberts took up his residence in the vicinity of the existing 

 building, of which he practically superintended the construction. 

 By 1 86 1 further funds had been derived from America, and the 

 endowment was vested in eighteen Trustees, of whom eight represented 

 the Mcsurado Count}', three Grand Basa, three Sino, and three Mary- 

 land, J. J. Roberts making the eighteenth. In the same year the College 

 buildings were completed, and in 1862 the institution was opened for 



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