Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . PRESBITERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 385 was non-sectarian. But soon the sentiment began to befelt—and tlie Hon. Hiram Knowles was perhaps the firstperson to voice it—that it would accrue greatly to the ad-vantage of the school, if it were placed under the patronageand control of some religious denomination. The first torespond to this sentiment, according to the Third AnnualCatalogue of the College of Montana, published in 1885, wasthe Presbytery of Montana, which appointed the above-mentioned committee to correspond with the trustees of theinstitu
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . PRESBITERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 385 was non-sectarian. But soon the sentiment began to befelt—and tlie Hon. Hiram Knowles was perhaps the firstperson to voice it—that it would accrue greatly to the ad-vantage of the school, if it were placed under the patronageand control of some religious denomination. The first torespond to this sentiment, according to the Third AnnualCatalogue of the College of Montana, published in 1885, wasthe Presbytery of Montana, which appointed the above-mentioned committee to correspond with the trustees of theinstitution, with the view of putting it upon such a basis. A conference between this committee and the Board ofTrustees of The Montana Collegiate Institute resultedin a conveyance, August 23, 1882, of the entire property tothe committee of the Presbytery. A debt of about $6,000hung over the property, which Mr, Alanson Trask of Brook-lyn, N. Y., a legatee of the estate of Frederick Marquand,very generously removed. Mr. Trask happened to passthrough Mo
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