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Kentucky University degree 1889

Accounting. 1910 census showed John Carpenter Curtis working as a bookkeeper (likely in family business)

October 2, 1865 - The Agricultural & Mechanical College of Kentucky University was established in Lexington. Transylvania University, As the first college west of the Allegheny Mountains in what would become Kentucky, had been the center of education for decades and in 1865 merged with Kentucky University of Danville to be known as Kentucky University. A&M College classes were offered at the late Henry Clay’s estate, “Ashland.” In 1878, the A&M College separated from Kentucky University and became the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Kentucky.
The city of Lexington donated a 52-acre park and fair grounds that became the nucleus of the physical campus. In 1880, a Normal Department was organized to train teachers, the same year the school began admitting female students although women were not eligible to earn a degree until 1888. In 1885, the college created the Agricultural Experiment Station to research agribusiness, food processing, nutrition, water, and soil resources; this led to the creation of the Agricultural Extension Service in 1910.
Meanwhile, Kentucky University continued on the old Transylvania campus at Third Street and Broadway; in 1908 it reverted to its historic name of Transylvania. In 1916, the A&M College of Kentucky achieved university status and changed its name to the University of Kentucky.

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