Education
On November 18, 1851, the Granville Convention was the occasion when Jonathan Baldwin Turner first proposed a plan to establish higher institutions of scientific industrial learning through federal aid, a plan that laid the foundation for the University of Illinois and for the nation's land grant colleges.
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