Kenyon College, the state's oldest private institution of higher education, was founded in 1824 in Worthington by Philander Chase, the first Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and relocated to Gambier four years later. Both the college and village were named for British benefactors, statesman Lord Kenyon and naval hero Lord Gambier. Throughout its history, Kenyon prepared men and women for leading roles in society, including nineteenth-century graduates Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war, and Rutherford B. Hayes, Ohio governor and U.S. president. In the twentieth century, Kenyon educated literary figures including poet Robert Lowell and novelist E.L. Doctorow. It also pioneered educational innovation, as the Advanced Placement Program began as the Kenyon Plan in the 1950s.