both the attendance and the financial support for the college. The AMMC declined in enrollment and developed significant debts. Yet, in 1908, the following news item appeared in the November issue of the Missionary Review of the World. The Review and Herald presented it as a news quote: " 'The Battle Creek Sanitarium, with which this college [the American Medical Missionary College] under Dr. George D. Dowkontt (See New York Medical Missionary Society quote above.) is connected, has severed its connection with the Seventh-day Adventists, and Dr. Kellogg is no longer a member of that body. Last year four students were graduated, but already this year the college has begun with forty students, including Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, and others. ' " Notable alumni Lottie Isbell Blake Henry Harrower William S. Sadler Lena Sadler Māui Pōmare References Most of the unhighlighted references provided here can be accessed at the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference Office of Archives & Statistics Online Document Archives Related Online Books and Periodicals Dowkontt, G. D. (1898). "Tell Them", The Life Story of a Medical Missionary. New York, Office of the Medical Missionary Record. 249 pages. Internet Archive Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (1849). Lectures on Medical Missions. Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox. Lowe, J. (1887). Medical Missions: Their Place and Power. London, T. Fisher Unwin. 292 pages. | John Lowe, F.R.C.S.E., Secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and Superintendent of its Training Institution. External links Short description of College's history Defunct private universities and colleges in Michigan University of Illinois System Educational institutions established in 1895 Educational institutions disestablished in 1910 Adventism Christian medical missionaries 1895 establishments in Michigan 1895 establishments in Illinois Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions