Editing University of Tulsa (section)

===Frontier Origins===
The Presbyterian School for Indian Girls (also known as "Minerva Home")<ref name="EOHC-MuskogeeCo">Mullins, Jonita. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Muskogee County." Retrieved April 22, 2013.</ref> was founded in [[Muskogee, Oklahoma|Muskogee]], [[Indian Territory]], in 1882 to offer a primary education to young women of the [[Creek Nation]].<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=https://utulsa.edu/about/history-traditions/|title=History page|access-date=August 8, 2017|archive-date=October 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025140848/https://utulsa.edu/about/history-traditions/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1894, the young school expanded to become Henry Kendall College, named in honor of Reverend Henry Kendall, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.<ref name = "Logsdon. History">Logsdon, Guy William. "The University of Tulsa: a history from 1882–1972."  Norman, Okla.; 1975.</ref><ref name = "Delfraisse History">Delfraisse, Betty Dew. "The history of the University of Tulsa." Austin, Tex.: [S.l.], 1929.</ref> The first president was William A. Caldwell, who served a brief two-year term, which ended in 1896.

Caldwell was succeeded by William Robert King, a Presbyterian minister and co-founder of the college, who had come to Oklahoma from [[Tennessee]], by way of the [[Union Theological Seminary (New York City)|Union Theological Seminary]] in [[New York City]] (affiliated with [[Columbia University]]). Kendall College, while still in Muskogee, granted the first post-secondary degree in Oklahoma in June 1898.<ref name="OHC-Muskogee">{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MU018.html|title=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: Muskogee|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615184436/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/M/MU018.html|archive-date=June 15, 2010|access-date=February 16, 2011}}</ref> Under King, the college was moved from its original location in downtown Muskogee to a larger campus on lands donated by [[Creek Nation]] Chief [[Pleasant Porter]].

Kendall College students, faculty and administrators were instrumental in efforts to get the [[State of Sequoyah]] recognized; they wrote most of the proposed constitution and designed the seal among other things.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Junior League of Tulsa|title=Interview with Guy Logsdon|url=http://cdm15020.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15020coll10/id/272|publisher=Tulsa City-County Library|access-date=August 2, 2017|date=February 7, 1980|archive-date=July 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716194701/http://cdm15020.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15020coll10/id/272|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The opening of the new campus coincided with the start of the tenure of the third president, [[A. Grant Evans]].  Over the next 10 years, Evans oversaw the struggling school's growth. In most years, class sizes remained small and although the academy, the attached elementary, middle, and high school was more successful; by the end of the 1906–07 year Kendall College had had only 27 collegiate graduates. At the request of the administration, the Synod of Indian Territory assumed control as trustees and began to look at alternatives for the future of the school. When the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate.<ref name="Logsdon. History"/><ref name="Delfraisse History"/><ref name="Henry Kendall College Bulletin">"Henry Kendall College Bulletin"</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Carlson|first=Marc|title=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture''|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=May 3, 2012|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/U/UN014.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729192600/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/U/UN014.html|archive-date=July 29, 2010}}</ref>