To celebrate Emory's 175th anniversary, Emory Report brings you a look at little-known facts about the university.
One of the oldest structures in Oxford, GA was built by Emory's first president, Ignatius A. Few, in the late 1830s to be his house. Three other Emory presidents lived in the home, and it was the site of the wedding of a future Supreme Court Justice. A Methodist philanthropist bought the home in 1899 and gave it to Emory to be the official house the school's president. When Emory moved to Atlanta in 1919, the house became the home of Oxford's dean, but it's still called the President's House.
To see the entire collection of Emory History Minutes, log on to Emory Report's website at http://bit.ly/emoryhistoryminutes. And for more information about Emory's 175th Anniversary, log on to http://www.emory.edu/175.
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