Other patrons during this period included Union Army general Oliver Otis Howard, United States Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, and Reverend Theron Baldwin.
WU received its largest contribution at that point in the school's history as the result of an 1869-1870 campaign led by the Ohio General Assembly and Ohio's representatives to the United States Congress. Through this campaign the school was awarded a $28,000 grant from the Freedmen's Bureau for the purposes of educating teachers at WU. The funds raised through this grant and donations from patrons were enough to cover operational costs and build a new brick structure, Shorter Hall (completed 1878), to serve as the school's main building, but Payne was unsuccessful at obtaining additional funds to build an endowment as he had hoped.
The Reconstruction era history at WU also was marked by a period of academic improvements. The curriculum was systemized during this period, and courses in music, theology, and law were added to the prior coursework in …
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