Transylvania University

Transylvania University in Lexington, chartered in 1780, is the oldest institution of higher learning west of the Allegheny Mountains. The University of Louisville, founded by the city council in 1798, is the oldest public university in the state. It became part of the state university…

…promote civic improvements and support Transylvania University, a prestigious institution where he taught law. He soon became a pillar of the Lexington community, but he also maintained his youthful habits of drinking and gambling that had earned him the nickname “Prince Hal,” a reference to William Shakespeare’s portrait of the…