Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati's first manual labor theological seminary and high school, opened in suburban Walnut Hills in 1829 with money from the Lanes, Baptist merchants from New Orleans, and land from the Kempers, a Presbyterian family from Cincinnati. The Reverend Lyman Beecher came from Boston as its first president, and his house, now known as the Stowe House after his daughter Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, still stands at Gilbert and Foraker. Bounded by present day Gilbert, Chapel, Park, and Yale streets, the seminary educated Presbyterian ministers until 1932, when it merged with McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. In the winter of 1834, students there, including some southerners and one African-American former slave, held an eighteen-night revival under Theodore Dwight Weld that became antislavery debates over immediate abolition versus colonization and converted almost all the students to abolition. Newspapers across the country publicized the debates, women supporters known as the Cincinnati Sisters organized local schools for African-American children, and after trustees barred discussion of controversial issues, most students withdrew, founded a seminary in exile in Cumminsville, and then moved it to Oberlin College. The debates marked a shift in American antislavery efforts from colonization to abolition, and the Lane Rebels went on to become ministers, abolitionists, and social reformers across the country.