On March 3, 1864, John Evans, former Governor of the Colorado Territory, appointee of President Abraham Lincoln, founded the Colorado Seminary in order to help “civilize” the newly created (1858) city of Denver, which was then a mining camp. The seminary was founded as a Methodist institution and struggled in the early years of its existence.[citation needed]In 1880 it was renamed the University of Denver. Although doing business as the University of Denver, DU is still legally named Colorado Seminary.[11] The first buildings of the university were located in downtown Denver in the 1860s and 1870s, but concerns that Denver’s rough-and-tumble frontier town atmosphere was not conducive to education prompted a relocation to the current campus, built on the donated land of potato farmer Rufus Clark, some seven miles (11 km) south of the downtown core. The university grew and prospered alongside the city’s growth, appealing primarily to a regional student body prior to World War II.[citation needed] After the war, the large surge in GI bill students pushed DU’s enrollment to over 13,000 students, the largest the university has ever been, and helped to spread the university’s reputation to a national audience.
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