Old Franklin, The Eternal Touch: A History of Franklin College, written past times Erving E. Beauregard offers a fascinating together with detailed stance of the institution. Beauregard documented the success of alumni inwards a diversity of professions from the ministry building to medicine to law. With observe to education, he noted, "Franklin merits fame equally the outset college inwards Ohio to graduate a black. It was the 3rd coeducational college inwards Ohio to acknowledge women. Its full faculty of 196 included 62 females. Its alumni were alongside the master copy founders of 4 colleges--Muskingum, Geneva, Monmouth (Ill.), together with Westminster (Pa.). One alumnus founded Hardin Institute for Colored Youths at Allendale, South Carolina. In add-on to furnishing viii presidents to their alma mater, herself, Old Franklin graduated twenty-one persons who eventually headed these colleges: Amity, Beverly, Cedarville, Curry of Pennsylvania, Highland, Hopedale (two presidents), Howard Female, Madison of Ohio (four presidents), Muskingum, Ohio Central (two presidents), Oskaloosa, Richmond of Ohio, Sharon, Westminster of Pennsylvania, Woodward, together with the University of Washington."
