The St. Louis Academy was a small school founded by Bishop DuBourg in a stone building at the corner of Third and Market Streets three years before Missouri became a state. It was expanded into a college in 1820. Dubourg had trouble finding faculty members but finally convinced the Jesuit order to send a dozen priests from Maryland in 1823. He gave them his college in 1828, the first university in the Louisiana Purchase, the first university established west of the Mississippi River. Today it is nationally-respected, St. Louis University.
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