Hebrew Union College founded in Cincinnati.
Reform: oldest Jewish seminary in the New World…
Campuses: Cincinnati, NY, L.A., Jerusalem… Founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in Cincinnati; notable faculty have included Magnes, Glueck, Butenweiser and Lauterbach, among others.
75 years later merged with Jewish Institute of Religion (1950).
(A year after HUC founded in Cincinnati, Temple Mikve Israel, a preeminent southern synagogue, founded in Savannah, Georgia in 1876.)