The University of Tulsa

The University of Tulsa has its roots in the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls, a small boarding school in Muskogee, Indian Territory, which was founded in 1882. In 1894, at the request of the Synod of Indian Territory, the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church elevated the academy?????????:?????????s status and chartered it as Henry Kendall College, a name that honored the first general secretary of the Home Missions Board. The first classes in the new college were held on September 12, 1894.In the years following, financial difficulties prompted school officials to ask the Synod of Indian Territory to assume control, sell the school?????????:?????????s land and seek a new location. Successfully courted by the business and professional community of Tulsa, which was booming after the discovery of oil at Glenpool, Henry Kendall College moved to Tulsa in 1907, the year of Oklahoma?????????:?????????s statehood. Several years later, a new college, to be named after oilman Robert M. McFarlin, was proposed for the city. Aware th