History
Hanover Seminary was established in 1829 as a preparatory school in Hanover, Indiana for prospective Presbyterian ministers hoping to serve on the western frontier of the expanding United States. After about ten years, the seminary moved a short distance to New Albany, Indiana where it became the New Albany Theological Seminary. When the western frontier boundary moved, the school also moved and opened in Chicago's present-day Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1859 where the school was first known as the Theological Seminary of the Northwest. Their old campus now forms a part of the DePaul University campus on Fullerton Avenue between Halsted and Racine Streets. It was named in 1886 after American industrialist Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884), who had served as a member of the seminary's board of trustees.
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