"Monongahela College", also known as "Taylor's Quickstep" or "Dandy Jim o' Caroline" is an American march in D Major. The parts are played AB. It was known in southwestern Pa. and Albemarle County, Virginia.
Once a very well-known fife march from southwestern Pa. Bayard (1981) sees this piece as a condensed or contracted form of a longer piece, probably "The Templehouse (Reel)".
Monongahela College was the first Baptist college in western Pennsylvania. It was begun by the Ten Mile Baptist Association in 1867, opened in 1869 and was chartered in 1871 by the legislature. It was operated from 1869 to 1888; reopened in 1890 and finally closed in 1894. It was located in Jefferson, Greene County, western Pennsylvania.
The tune was collected from Hiram Horner (a fifer from Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, Pa. in 1944) and Samuel Palmer (a fiddler Fayette County, Pa. in 1944) by Samuel Bayard and Mount Pleasant Tablatures and Real Fife Tunes (collected by Thomas Hoge).
It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle (1981) and Southern Folklore Quarterly, vol. 6.