Gem City Business College

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Gem City Business College was a business school in Quincy, Illinois. It was founded by DeLafayette Musselman in 1870.^[1]

Letter from college president D. L. Musselman in Spencerian script

The Musselman Building was part of the school.^[2] The five-story building opened in 1892.^[3]

Robert O. Brown wrote a history of the college published by Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in 1958.^[4]

Alumni

D. W. Bell^[1]
Professor F. E. Wolf of Baker University
Mable Mathews
Virginia Irwin
William H. Wheat
Lloyd Morey
Robert L. Hendershott
Robert M. Danford

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References

^ ^a ^b "Once Upon A Time in Quincy: Gem City Business College educator saved the American bluebird". Herald-Whig. November 12, 2011.
^ "Gem City Business College". www.idaillinois.org.
^ Brown, Timothy P. "A Different Type of Football: Gem City Business College". www.footballarchaeology.com.
^ A History of the Gem City Business College, Quincy, Illinois. Northeast Missouri State Teachers College. 1958.

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