The English portion closed in 1863 as descendants of German immigrants were more numerous and interested in continuing their church traditions.

[1] Church members founded the new school in Warrenton with the stated purposes of providing homes for orphans of the American Civil War and to supply a "higher educational institute for the youth of the German Church in the West.

"[1] Founders purchased a 932-acre (3.77 km2) campus for the Western Orphan Asylum and Educational Institute.

[1] In 1912 the college was among the original founders of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

[2] The records of Ozark Wesleyan College of Carthage, Missouri, were added to the Truman State University Library and Archives in the 1920s.