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Lebanon, Tennessee, whose backers offered $ 10,000 in cash. Neither the commission nor the General Assembly had the authority to dissolve Cumberland College or to relocate it outside Kentucky. The General Assembly did, however, cease its financial support for the Princeton college and allocated educational funds to the Lebanon college. Also, Franceway Cossitt left the Princeton college to become the Lebanon college's first president. The Lebanon school opened in October 1842. Though it was originally named Cumberland College, it was chartered as Cumberland University on December 30, 1843.
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The college's largest problem was its indebtedness. The synodical commission had chosen
Princeton as the college's site on the strength of local pledges of support amounting to at least $ 15,000, but few of the pledges were upheld. By 1837 the college was $ 12,000 in debt, and five years later it was
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Princeton, Kentucky, remained open. The college ceased its manual labor operations and sold off its farm and farm equipment. By the end of 1842, the college was, for the first time in its history, debt-free. In October 1844, Green River Synod (an intermediate judicatory of the
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