The Agricultural College of Michigan chartered in Lansing, Michigan

The Agricultural College of Michigan is chartered.  It will open on May 13, 1857 in Lansing, Michigan with sixty-three students, under the presidency of Joseph Williams. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 6-7.
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    Exact
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    Cultural
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    Personal
    The Agricultural College will eventually become Michigan State University.
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