Chapter III. INAUGURAL PROCESSION

  John Scott's The Family History of Robert Hamilton Bishop (1951) follows Miami's first president from his native Scotland to southwestern Ohio. Various volumes of R. H. Bishop's sermons and addresses are in the Miami Collection. James H. Rodabaugh's The History of Miami University from its Origin to 1845 (Miami University, 1933) is a close study of the first Miami years. This M.A. thesis was expanded and extended in James H. Rodabaugh, The History of Miami University from its Origin to 1885 (Ph.D. thesis, Ohio State University, 1937). Virginia Steele Young's M.A. thesis, Times and Life of Joel Collins (Miami University, 1953), includes an account of the locating of Miami University, the first sale of college lands and the construction of the first college buildings.