A second iteration calling itself the University of Lawsonomy was established on the site of the University of Lawsonomy Farm near Racine, Wisconsin, in 1957, by a follower of Lawson, Merle Hayden, and continued to exist until Hayden's death in 2017.
Lawson purchased the campus of the University of Des Moines, in Iowa in August 1943, acquiring fourteen acres of urban property and six large buildings, for a price of $80,000.
[2] In 1948, the tax assessor of Des Moines, Bert Zuver, inspected the site and concluded that DMUL was “a university in name only” and was better described as “a colony for a community within the community for the purpose of eulogizing Alfred Lawson”.
[3] In 1952 the IRS revoked the nonprofit status given the university by the state and demanded it pay back taxes.
There were no admission requirements to study Lawsonomy, but to earn a degree certifying the graduate as a “knowlegian” was a life-long endeavour.