Question: Which American university was established first, Ohio State University or Williams College?
Context: The Ohio State University at Mansfield is a regional campus of The Ohio State University located in Mansfield, Ohio.  It was founded in 1958 as a land-grant college.  Its 644 acre campus is situated in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, the North Central Ohio region, with easy access to Columbus and Cleveland.  The campus offers seven bachelor degree programs and two master degree programs.  Students can start at Mansfield and finish their degrees at The Ohio State University, Columbus, with one or more of Ohio State’s 170 majors.  The Bromfield Library of the OSU mansfield campus provides access to all the resources of The Ohio State University and Ohio Link. The Ohio State University College of Medicine (formerly known as The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health) is the medical school at The Ohio State University and is located in Columbus, Ohio.  The college is nationally recognized as a top institution in both education and research, as reflected by rankings in "U.S. News & World Report".  In 2009, its primary teaching hospital (Ohio State University Hospital) was ranked as one of the best hospitals in the U.S. in 10 different specialties; it was chosen to be among the 21 hospitals named to "U.S. News & World Report's" select honor roll of U.S. hospitals. The Ohio State University was founded in 1870 as a land-grant university in accordance with the Morrill Act of 1862 under the name of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.  The school was originally situated within a farming community located on the northern edge of Columbus, and was intended to matriculate students of various agricultural and mechanical disciplines.  The university opened its doors to 24 students on September 18, 1873.  In 1878, the first class of six men graduated.  The first woman graduated the following year.  In 1878, in light of its expanded focus, the college permanently changed its name to the now-familiar "The Ohio State University".  Ohio State began accepting graduate students in the 1880s, with the university awarding its first master's and doctoral degrees in 1886 and 1890 respectively.  1891 saw the founding of Ohio State's law school.  Presently, the university has reached the ranking of becoming a "Public Ivy", as well as very receiving high rankings and awards from many institutions, including "U.S. News", Academic Ranking of World Universities. Gary Bruce Williams (born March 4, 1945) is an American university administrator and former college basketball coach.  He served as the head coach at the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Boston College, and American University.  In 2002, he led Maryland to win the NCAA Tournament Championship.  Williams retired after the 2010–11 season, and is now a college basketball analyst for the Big Ten Network. Richard D. Finn, Jr. (born c. 1933), also known as Dick Finn, was an American baseball player and coach.  He grew up in Lima, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University.  He was a pitcher for the Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team and captain of the 1955 team that won a Big Ten Conference championship in 1955.  He graduated from Ohio State in 1955.  From 1960 to 1964, he was an assistant football and basketball coach at Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio.  In August 1964, he was hired as the head baseball coach at the University of Toledo.  He held that position for until 1969.  In September 1969 he was hired as an assistant baseball coach at Ohio State.  In May 1975, after six years as an assistant coach, he became the head baseball coach at Ohio State.  He stepped down as head baseball coach in June 1987 and was appointed special assistant to Ohio State athletic director Rick Bay. Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.  It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755.  The college was ranked first in 2017 in the "U.S. News & World Report"' s liberal arts ranking for the 15th consecutive year, and third among liberal art colleges in the 2017 "Forbes" magazine ranking of America's Top Colleges. Zephaniah Swift Moore (November 20, 1770 – June 29, 1823) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator.  He taught at Dartmouth College during the early 1810s and had a house built in Hanover, New Hampshire that now serves as Dartmouth's Blunt Alumni Center.  He served as the President of Williams College between 1815 and 1821 and the first President of Amherst College between 1821 and 1823.  He is most famous for abandoning Williams in order to found Amherst, taking some of the faculty and 15 students with him.  Supposedly, he also took portions of the Williams College library with him.  Though plausible, this account is unsubstantiated, and was declared false in 1995 by Williams College President Harry C. Payne.  Moore died two years after Amherst was founded, and was succeeded by Heman Humphrey, a trustee of Williams College.  His departure from Williams established the foundation for the intense Williams-Amherst rivalry that persists to the present.  To this day, he is regarded with a measure of derision on the Williams campus. This List of Presidents of Ohio State University includes all who have served as university presidents of Ohio State University since its founding in 1870.  Ohio State University is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio.  Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College.  In 1878, in light of its expanded focus, the college permanently changed its name to The Ohio State University. The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a large, primarily residential, public university in Columbus, Ohio.  Founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College (Mech).  The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and mechanical disciplines but was developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then Governor (later, President) Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878 the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "The Ohio State University".  It has since grown into the third-largest university campus in the United States.  Along with its main campus in Columbus, Ohio State also operates a regional campus system with regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster. The Ohio State University, Lima, also referred to as Ohio State Lima is a regional campus of Ohio State University located in Lima, Ohio.  Its 565 acre campus is located in Lima, 80 mi south of Toledo, Ohio.  It offers over 140 courses and 9 bachelor degree programs in science and liberal Arts.  Nine of eleven programs are four-year programs at Lima.  Two of them are baccalaureate completion programs.  In addition to regional accreditation, Ohio State Lima has baccalaureate program accreditation with NCATE.  Students can start at Lima and finish their degrees at The Ohio State University, Columbus with one of Ohio State’s 170+ majors.  The Ohio State University at Lima offers over 20 student clubs and organizations.  There are also 12 intramural and club athletic teams.  The Lima Campus Library has 76,000 volumes and 200+ journal subscriptions.  Library databases also provide access to thousands of online journals.  The University shares the campus with James A. Rhodes State College.
Answer: Williams College