claim: Northwestern University is the only private university of the Big Ten Conference since 1968.
evidence: Martin Kinsley -LRB- June 2 , 1754 -- June 20 , 1835 -RRB- was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts .. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. U.S. Representative. United States House of Representatives. Born in Bridgewater , Massachusetts , Kinsley graduated from Harvard College in 1778 .. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Harvard. Harvard University. Harvard College. Harvard College. He studied medicine .. He became a purveyor of supplies in the Revolutionary Army .. Revolutionary Army. Continental Army. He served as Treasurer of the Town of Hardwick .. Hardwick. Hardwick, Massachusetts. He moved to Hampden , and was a representative of that town in the Massachusetts House of Representatives .. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Massachusetts House of Representatives. Massachusetts House of Representatives. Hampden. Hampden, Maine. He served as member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811 , as a judge of the court of common pleas in 1811 , as judge of the probate court , and served in the Massachusetts State Senate .. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Senate. Massachusetts State Senate. Kinsley was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress -LRB- March 4 , 1819 -- March 3 , 1821 -RRB- .. Democratic-Republican. Democratic-Republican. Sixteenth. 16th United States Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress .. Seventeenth. 17th United States Congress. He died in Roxbury , June 20 , 1835 .. Roxbury. Roxbury, Massachusetts