Editing Dickinson College (section)

===18th century===
[[File:Carlisle Tobacco Cloth.1.png|thumb|left|170px|The collaborative relationship between Dickinson College and [[Carlisle Indian Industrial School]] lasted almost four decades]]
The Carlisle Grammar School was founded in 1773 as a frontier Latin school for young men in [[Western Pennsylvania]]. Within years Carlisle's elite, such as [[James Wilson (Founding Father)|James Wilson]] and [[John Montgomery (Continental Congress)|John Montgomery]], were pushing for the development of the school as a college. In 1782, [[Benjamin Rush]], a physician who was a prominent leader during and after the American Revolution, met in [[Philadelphia]] with Montgomery and [[William Bingham]], a prominent businessman and politician. As their conversation about founding a frontier college in Carlisle took place on his porch, "Bingham's Porch" was long a rallying cry at Dickinson.

Dickinson College was chartered by the Pennsylvania legislature on September 9, 1783, six days after the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] that ended the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]; it was the first college to be founded in the newly independent nation. Rush intended to name the college after the [[Governor of Pennsylvania|president of Pennsylvania]] [[John Dickinson (delegate)|John Dickinson]] and his wife [[Mary Norris Dickinson]], proposing "John and Mary's College." The Dickinsons had given the new college an extensive library which they jointly owned, one of the largest libraries in the colonies.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Books of Isaac Norris at Dickinson College|url=http://deila.dickinson.edu/norris/about.html|website=Dickinson College|publisher=The Dickinson Electronic Initiative in the Liberal Arts|access-date=11 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0810884984|last=McKenney|first=Janice E.|title=Women of the Constitution: Wives of the Signers|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofconstitut0000mcke|url-access=registration|date=November 15, 2012|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref> The name Dickinson College was chosen instead. Dickinson College's location west of the [[Susquehanna River]] made it the westernmost college in the United States at the time of its 1783 founding. Rush made his first journey to Carlisle to attend the first meeting of the trustees, held in April 1784. The trustees selected [[Charles Nisbet]], a Scottish minister and scholar, to serve as the college's first president. He arrived and began to serve on July 4, 1785, serving until his unexpected death in 1804.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/n/ed_nisbetC.htm |title=Charles Nisbet, First President of Dickinson College |website=Dickinson College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230051716/http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/n/ed_nisbetC.htm |archive-date=2007-12-30 }}</ref>

Among Dickinson's 18th century graduates were [[Robert Cooper Grier]] and [[Roger Brooke Taney]], both of whom later became [[United States Supreme Court|U.S. Supreme Court]] justices, serving together on the court for 18 years.