Editing Rutgers University (section)

===19th century===
{{Further|Henry Rutgers}}
In its early years, due to a lack of funds, Queen's College was closed for two extended periods. Early trustees considered merging the college with the College of New Jersey, in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], but the measure failed by one vote. They later considered relocating it to [[New York City]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> In 1808, after raising $12,000, the college temporarily reopened and broke ground on a building of its own, called "[[Old Queens]]," designed by architect [[John McComb, Jr.]]<ref name="paths">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/historic_ru_paths.shtml Paths to Historic Rutgers: A Self-Guided Tour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903014416/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/historic_ru_paths.shtml |date=September 3, 2006 }}, at Rutgers University. Retrieved August 9, 2006.</ref>  The college's third president, [[Ira Condict]], laid the cornerstone on April 27, 1809. Shortly after, the [[New Brunswick Theological Seminary]], founded in 1784, relocated from [[Brooklyn]], to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College and the [[Rutgers Preparatory School|Queen's College Grammar School]], and all three institutions were then overseen by the [[Reformed Church in America]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> During those formative years, all three institutions fit into Old Queens. In 1830, Queen's College Grammar School moved across the street, and in 1856, the seminary relocated to a seven-acre (28,000&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup>) tract less than one-half mile (800&nbsp;m) away.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years"/>
[[File:Col henry rutgers.JPG|thumb|right|Colonel [[Henry Rutgers]] (1745–1830), an early benefactor and the namesake of Rutgers University]]
After several years of closure resulting from an economic depression after the [[War of 1812]], Queen's College reopened in 1825 and was renamed "Rutgers College" in honor of [[American Revolutionary War]] hero [[Henry Rutgers]] (1745–1830). According to the board of trustees, Colonel Rutgers was honored because he epitomized [[Christian ethics]]. A year after the school was renamed, it received two donations from its namesake: a $200 bell still hanging from the cupola of Old Queen's and a $5,000 bond ({{Inflation|USD|5000|1825|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) which placed the college on sound financial footing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Rutgers |url=https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/henry-rutgers/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.newnetherlandinstitute.org}}</ref>

Rutgers College became the [[land-grant college]] of New Jersey in 1864 under the [[Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act|Morrill Act of 1862]], resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers Scientific School, featuring departments of [[agriculture]], [[engineering]], and [[chemistry]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> The Rutgers Scientific School would expand over the years to grow into the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (1880) and divide into the [[School of Engineering (Rutgers University)|College of Engineering]] (1914) and the [[School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Rutgers University)|College of Agriculture]] (1921).<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> Rutgers created the [[Douglass College (Rutgers University)|New Jersey College for Women]] in 1918, and the School of Education in 1924.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />