fully coeducational.
== History ==
Midway University was founded on October 3, 1849, as the Kentucky Female Orphan School with one teacher and sixteen female students. The nine members of the board of trustees oversaw the school's endowment, the building, and five acres of land.
=== Kentucky Female Orphan School (19th Century) ===
The co-founders of the school were L.L. (Lewis Letig) Pinkerton, minister of the Midway Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) from 1844 to 1860, and James Ware Parrish, a Midway Christian Church elder. They obtained a charter on February 17, 1847, from the Kentucky legislature through the help of Kentucky Senator Major George W. Williams. Before the school was permitted to open, an endowment of twenty-five thousand dollars had to be secured and investments made. This time was used for soliciting funds, purchasing land, construction of a building, and drafting and outline of government and management for the school.
John Dawson was superintendent and his wife, Mary, was matron when …
