The Service Theological Seminary of the Associate Presbyterian Church, the second divinity school in America, held its first session in a log building erected here during the winter of 1794-1795, with the Rev. John Anderson, D.D. as its sole instructor. In 1821 the seminary was transferred to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Thence, in 1855, it was removed to Xenia, Ohio. By the union of 1858 it became one of the theological seminaries of the United Presbyterian Church of North America.