Great Western Business and Normal College
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- For the defunct state-run normal school, see Concordia Normal SchoolConcordia Normal SchoolConcordia Normal School located in Concordia, Kansas was a state-funded normal school operated by the Kansas state government from 1874 until 1876....
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The Great Western Business and Normal College (sometimes called "Concordia Normal School and Business College" or "Concordia Business College") located in Concordia, Kansas
Concordia, Kansas
Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. Located on the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains, Concordia was founded in 1871 and is an economic and cultural center in north-central Kansas...
was a private business college and normal school
Normal school
A normal school is a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose is to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name...
. The school was founded in 1889 by L.H. Hausam. Records show students attending as late as 1930.
The college eventually moved its operations to Webb City, Missouri