The Baptists instituted Shaw University at Raleigh, in 1865, Roger Williams at Nashville and Morehouse at Atlanta, in 1867, Leland at New Orleans, in 1869, and Benedict at Columbia, in 1871; and the Free Baptists established Storer at Harper’s Ferry in 1867. The Methodist Episcopal Church instituted Walden at Nashville, in 1865, Rust at Holly Springs, in 1866, Morgan at Baltimore, in 1867, Haven Academy at Waynesboro, in 1868, Claflin at Orangeburg, in 1869, and Clark at Atlanta, in 1870. The Presbyterians already had their important school in Pennsylvania, called Ashmun Institute, now Lincoln University, founded in 1854; to which was added Biddle University, in 1867. The Episcopal Church instituted St. Augustine’s at Raleigh, in 1867. The Congregational Church, through the American Missionary was one of the earliest denominations to enter the field of Negro education systematically. In 1865, it had Avery Institute at Charleston, Ballard Normal at Macon, and Washburn at Beaufort, N. C.; in 1866, Trinity at Athens, Ala., Gregory at Wilmington, N. C., and Fisk University at Nashville; in 1867, Talladega College in Alabama, Emerson at Mobile, Storrs at Atlanta, and Beach at Savannah; in 1868, Hampton Institute in Virginia, Knox at Athens, Ga., Burwell at Selma, Ala., since removed to Florence, and the Ely Normal, now a public school in Louisville; in 1869, Straight University at New Orleans, Tougaloo in Mississippi, Le Moyne at Memphis, and Lincoln at Marion, Ala.; in 1870, Dorchester Academy at McIntosh, and the Albany Normal in Georgia. The United States Government in 1867 chartered Howard University “for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences,” with special provision for the higher education of negroes, but designed for all who might wish to study there, with no race discriminations. Several notable schools were started in this early period by representatives of the Society of Friends; in 1862 Miss Towne and Miss Murray opened the Penn School on Helena Island, in the neighborhood of Hilton Head; in 1865 Cornelia Hancock, of Philadelphia, opened the Laing School at Mount Pleasant, in the vicinity of Charleston, and carried it on until 1869, when it passed into the charge of Abby D. Munro, of Bristol, R. I., who continued it for upwards of forty years; in 1868 Martha Schofield, of Pennsylvania, founded the industrial school at Aiken, which bears her name and was under her management till very recently, when she resigned on account of the infirmities of age. In 1864, Calvin and Alida Clark, with the support of the Society of Friends in Indiana, started a work for colored orphans in Helena; and then, in 1869, the education want having become paramount, removed some ten miles to a farm in the country and established there the Southland College.