Missituk Liberal Arts College

Founding

Jeremiah Orne dies. He leaves a library of 900 volumes and a bequest that, administered by trustees Francis Derby and George Locksley transform Jerusalem College into the Missituk Liberal Arts College. The school is housed in a large two-story building on the south side of College Street. The building contains the Orne library and a small museum of oddities brought back from the West Indies by New Jerusalem ships. This collection can still be seen at the Missituk University Exhibit Museum. John Adams Pickering, Harvard-educated and of the New Jerusalem Pickerings, is chosen as the college's first president.