Judson College (Alabama)

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Judson College (Alabama)

Judson College (Alabama)

Judson College is a private women's college in Marion, Alabama. It is the fifth-oldest women's college in the United States, having been founded by members of Siloam Baptist Church in 1838 in Marion, Alabama. Some of the individuals most instrumental in the founding of Judson College were: Julia Tarrant Barron, General Edwin D. King, and Milo P. Jewett and Francis Christian Lowry.^[3]^[4] Judson was named after Ann Hasseltine Judson, the first female foreign missionary from the United States to Burma (now Myanmar). It has been affiliated with the Alabama Baptist Convention throughout its history and is currently still heavily funded by the convention.^[5]

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