1, 1856, at which time a full faculty was elected, and Monmouth College inaugurated. The organization of a complete college faculty was effected by the election of Rev. D. A. Wallace, President ; Rev. J. R. Brown, Professor of Languages, and Rev. Marion Morrison, Professor of Mathemat- ics. The school as an academy and college was un- der the care of the Second Associate Reformed presbytery of Illinois, until October, 1856, when, at College Work. 19 the meeting of the Associate Reformed Synod of Illinois, it was, at the request of the presbytery, taken under the care of the synod and entrusted, in its government, to a Board of Trustees, consisting of twenty-four members, eighteen to be elected by the synod including those already in office elected by the Second Associate Reformed presbytery and six to be elected by the Board of Trustees itself. Thus Monrnouth College organized first as an academy, then changed into a college, was ready for faculty and students. The Rev. David A. Wallace, at this time pastor of the East Boston Associate Reformed Mission Church, having been chosen President, with Rev. Marion Morrison, an esteemed classmate at Miami Univer- sity, Professor of Mathematics, and Rev. J. R. Brown, the former principal, Professor of Latin, came to