Hiram College is a private human sciences school situated in Hiram, Ohio. It was established in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and different individuals from the Disciples of Christ Church. The school is nonsectarian and coeducational. It is authorize by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Hiram's most well known graduate is James A. Garfield, who likewise served as a school teacher and essential, and was consequently chosen the twentieth President of the United States.
On June 12, 1849, delegates of the Disciples of Christ voted to set up a scholarly establishment, which would later get to be Hiram College. On November 7 that year, they picked the town of Hiram as the site for the school in light of the fact that the authors considered this region of the Western Reserve to be "invigorating and free of distractions".[6] The next month, on December 20, the originators acknowledged the recommendation of Isaac Errett and named the school the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute.
The Institute's unique contract was approved by the state council on March 1, 1850, and the school opened a while later, on November 27. A hefty portion of the understudies originated from the encompassing ranches and towns of the Western Reserve, however Hiram soon picked up a national notoriety and understudies started touching base from different states. On February 20, 1867, the Institute joined as a school and changed its name to Hiram College.
Amid the prior years it was renamed Hiram College, 1850–1867, the school had seven principals, the likeness today's school presidents. The two that did the most in building up and characterizing the way of the foundation were Disciple pastor Amos Sutton Hayden, who drove the school through its initial six years, and James A. Garfield, who had been an understudy at the Institute from 1851–1853 and after that returned in 1856 as an instructor. As vital, Garfield extended the Institute's educational modules. He exited the Institute in 1861 and in 1880 was chosen the twentieth President of the United Sta