Transylvania University

Transylvania University is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Kentucky with approximately 1,100 students.

When Transylvania University was founded in 1780 it became the 16th college in the U.S. and the first west of the Allegheny Mountains. The school is named Transylvania (Latin for "across the woods") after the heavily forested region of western Virginia that became Kentucky in 1792.

It opened at Danville, Kentucky in 1785, and didn't move to Lexington until 1789. For some time it was called Kentucky University, while it had an affiliation with that school.

The school is located on a 35 acre (142,000 m²) campus in an urban area. The school is affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Alumni

• Stephen F. Austin
• William T. Barry
• Francis Preston Blair
• Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
• John C. Breckinridge
• B. Gratz Brown
• Alexander Campbell
• Albert Chandler
• Thomas James Churchill
• Cassius Clay (abolitionist)
• Henry Clay
• Jefferson Davis
• Richard Mentor Johnson
• Wilson Shannon
• James Speed

External link

• transy.edu (http://www.transy.edu/)