Sorry about that
By Nathan Nance
Guest post by Nate Nance
I'm sorry if the last post seemed to kind of jump toward an idea at the end. I got sidetracked for about an hour with a caller who wanted to know the history of the founding of Baylor University. He wanted to know who Baylor was named after and where that person was buried.
I ended up doing several Google searches trying to find everything I could on Judge Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, formerly of Kentucky and Alabama, who came to Texas and helped establish the need for a Baptist university. Originally the school was to be named San Jacinto University, then Milam University before it was finally chartered on Feb. 1, 1845 as Baylor University.
Baylor was a District Judge and professor of law at Baylor until his death on Dec. 30th 1873. As per his request, he was buried on the campus grounds in Independence, TX. The university moved in 1886 to consolidate with Waco University, forming Baylor University at Waco, where it still is today. Baylor's remains were moved in 1917 to Baptist Women's College, now known as the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, TX.
How's that for a free history lesson.
Anyway, I'm such a dork that I had to share all of that useless knowledge with you until I could find something more suitable to write about.
Guest post by Nate Nance. Nate is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald and writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com
Posted by Nathan Nance at December 13, 2004 11:31 PM
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As a History major and as big (if not even bigger) dork than you, thanks!
I never knew that stuff, but I imagine it'll come up some day. I love learning about my state's history and Baylor is one of the (if not THE) oldest Universities in Texas. Its fascinating stuff.
