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Dexter Edgar Converse, founder of this college, was born in Swanton, Vermont on April 21, 1829, and died in Spartanburg, South Carolina on October 4, 1899. He was remembered with the words, “Oh, it is great -- and there is no other greatness -- to make one nook of God’s creation more fruitful. Better. More worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, nobler, happier, more blessed.”
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