Editing Lane Seminary (section)

===The "seminary" at Cumminsville===
About a dozen of the  [[Lane Rebels]], as they came to be called, established an informal seminary of their own in 1834–1835, in [[Cumminsville, Ohio]].<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|132–133}} "We went out, not knowing whither we went. The Lord's hand was with us. Five miles from the seminary we found a deserted brick tavern, with many convenient rooms. Here we rallied. A gentleman of the vicinity offered us all necaessary fuel, a gentleman far off [Lewis Tappan] sent us a thousand dollars, and we set up a seminary of our own and became a law unto ourselves. George Whipple was competent in Hebrew, and William T. Allan in Greek. They were made professors in the intermediate state. It was desirable that we should remain near to Cincinnati for a season, as we were there teaching in evening schools for the colored people of that city."<ref name=Lyman>{{cite book
|last=Lyman
|first=H[untington]
|author-link=Huntington Lyman
|chapter='Lane Seminary Rebels'
|pages=60–69
|year=1883
|chapter-url=http://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/Lyman-Rebels.pdf
|title=The Oberlin Jubilee 1833–1883
|editor-last=Ballantine
|editor-first=W. G.
|location=[[Oberlin, Ohio]]
|publisher=E. J. Goodrich
|access-date=November 11, 2019
|archive-date=January 25, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125034714/https://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/Lyman-Rebels.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref>{{rp|66–67}}

{{blockquote|A group of former students left Lane Seminary and lived four miles away in a village named Cumminsville. This group of students included William T. Allan, Huntington Lyman, John Tappan Pierce, Henry B. Stanton, and James A. Thome. These students lived, studied, and taught the local black community. The rebels also preached in local black and white churches. A few young men also joined the Cumminsville group who were prospective Lane students, but never attended the seminary. These three men that we know of are: Benjamin Foltz, Theodore J. Keep, and William Smith. They are considered by some scholars to be a part of the Lane rebels, though I do not formally include them in the group. Those individuals, along with the rest of the former Lane students at Cumminsville, attended Oberlin Collegiate Institute. Henry B. Stanton was one of the few at Cumminsville who did not attend Oberlin, instead, Stanton went to law school.<ref>{{cite book
|first=Maddie
|last=Smith
|chapter=The Lane Rebels' Dismissions
|title=A Cause for Freedom
|access-date=December 29, 2019
|url=http://www.woosterdigital.org/causeforfreedom/exhibits/show/lane_rebels_dismissions/lane_rebels_dismissions
|archive-date=July 28, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728221951/http://www.woosterdigital.org/causeforfreedom/exhibits/show/lane_rebels_dismissions/lane_rebels_dismissions
|url-status=live
}}</ref>}}

At Cumminsville, "the students continued their work in the black community. William T. Allan, Andrew Benton, Marius R. Robinson, Henry B. Stanton, and George Whipple taught in the Sabbath schools. John W. Alvord, Huntington Lyman, Henry B. Stanton, James A. Thome, and Samuel Wells gave lectures twice a week in the black community. The students also alternated in preaching at eight different churches, including two black churches. They helped support Augustus Wattles' teachers in schools, enlisted the cooperation of local black ministers, and kept Weld, now an anti-slavery agent, and [[Joshua Leavitt]] informed of local events."<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|132}}

This was the point at which the former Lane students came into contact with [[John J. Shipherd]], founder of the new [[Oberlin Collegiate Institute]], "a college in name only" that had been founded the previous year (1833). "The former Lane students literally took possession of the embryo institution."<ref name=Dumond/>{{rp|163}}