10 Facts About Ransom Dunn

Ransom Dunn was President of Rio Grande College in Ohio, and Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Ransom Dunn was born in the town of Bakersfield, in the north corner of Vermont to John and Abigail Reed Ransom Dunn, a family of English and Scots descent.

Around 1840 Ransom Dunn attended the Baptist Seminary in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Ransom Dunn became a pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church of Boston.

Ransom Dunn is known for his publication A Discourse on the Freedom of the Will, published in 1850.

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Ransom Dunn taught at Geauga Seminary, and he was a professor at Central Michigan College in Spring Arbor, MI, which later moved and was renamed Hillsdale College.

Ransom Dunn was the first President as well as professor of mental and moral philosophy at Rio Grande College.

Ransom Dunn was later the president of Hillsdale College, Michigan, its dean, Burr professor of Christian Theology, and professor emeritus of moral theology.

Ransom Dunn secured the school's original financial support by riding on horseback for thousands of miles through the frontier lands of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the early 1850s, gathering donations.

Ransom Dunn is buried with his wife, Cyrena, at Oak Grove Cemetery, Hillsdale, Michigan.