Earlham Drive and Guilford Way were named in 1903 on J.C. Hiatt’s College Villa tract, adjacent to Whittier College. The streets’ names refer to Earlham College in Richmond, IN and Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Like Whittier College itself, both universities were founded by Quakers: Earlham in 1847 (first known as the Friends Boarding School) and Guilford in 1837. The owner of the tract was early Whittierite John C. Hiatt (1840-1914), who published the town’s first newspaper the Graphic and served on the Whittier College board of trustees. Although an Indiana native and a Quaker, Hiatt attended neither Earlham nor Guilford, but he did fight in the Civil War (in spite of his pacifist faith), was imprisoned at the dreaded Andersonville POW camp, and was reportedly in the audience when Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater.
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