Her 12-year-old sister, Alby, became the first student at Linden Wood in the fall of 1830. Mary Sibley took in students within a year of moving into the cabin. As the work on Linden Wood continued, the idea of opening a boarding school evolved.
They completed construction of a cabin and outhouses and moved into Linden Wood in December 1829. The Sibleys borrowed money and began clearing the overgrown property to convert it into a farm with livestock brought from Fort Osage. In 1829, the Sibleys purchased 280 acres (113.3 ha) of land, known as the "Linden Wood" because of the numerous linden trees. Lindenwood University is now considered the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River, after Saint Louis University, as well as the first women's college west of the Mississippi. Charles, where Mary began teaching family members and later, in 1832, other young women from the community. After the trading post shut down, George and Mary remained at Fort Osage, with George serving as postmaster until the fort closed in 1825. In 1813, Sibley opened a temporary trading post at Fort Sibley, now known as the town of Arrow Rock, Missouri, which remained in operation until 1822. During the Sibleys' time at Fort Osage, Mary began teaching the children at the fort. Louis attorney and Missouri's second Attorney General. He also met Mary Easton, the daughter of Rufus Easton, a prominent St. While at Fort Osage, Sibley immediately set to work creating relationships with the neighboring Osage tribes. In 1808, Acting Governor and friend Frederick Bates promoted Sibley to the position of chief factor at Fort Osage in western Missouri, near present-day Kansas City, Missouri. Lindenwood University traces its roots back to George Champlin Sibley, an early 19th-century American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and politician, and his wife Mary Easton Sibley, an educator. Tree-lined entrance in the historic part of the Lindenwood University campus
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