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Her grateful pupils have recently erected a beautiful monu- ment to her memory in the Clinton Cemetery.
" Rev. T. J. Sawyer, D.D., became principal of the male department in 1845, and held the position some twelve or fifteen years. During this period, and largely by his efforts, the present building of the female department was erected in the year 1851 .. It is of a substantial character, 136 feet by 46, is two stories high above the basement, and contains all the necessary rooms and fixtures to make it a pleasant home and school for young ladies. It stands on a slight eminence in the southern part of the village, commanding a view of the village and the valley of the Oriskany, and of the college hillside dotted here and there with residences, and with the institution crowning its summit.
" A debt of some magnitude having been incurred in erecting this building, aud in other ways, Rev. D. Skinner, of Utica, volunteered to raise funds sufficient to discharge it. He did even more than this, for he not only enabled the trustees to pay the debt of $12,000, but obtained money enough to repair the buildings and to replenish the library and the stock of apparatus,. He performed this labor with- ont compensation, and in his will left $1000 to the institu- tion."
The faculty of the Institute for 1877-78 are as follows :. Principal, I. Thorton Osmond, A.M., Professor of Mental, Moral, and Political Science and Mathematics; Preceptress, Miss Helen S. Pratt, L.A., Teacher of Modern Languages and Literature; Professors of Latin and Greek, W. L. C. Bailey, A.B., and Walter R. Haig, A.M. ; Teacher of Eng- glish Branches, Miss I. Josephine Miller; Teacher of Draw- ing, Painting, and Voice Culture, Miss Gertrude L. Stone; Teacher of Instrumental Music, Miss Genevieve Wells; Teacher of Drawing and Painting, Miss Maggie A. Lan- ders ; Teacher of Elocution, Frank V, Mills.
For the year ending May, 1877, the attendance was fifty gentlemen and forty-five ladies. The class of 1877 was composed of Edgar L. Bumpus, Clinton, Classical ; Lottie N. Devoe, Fort Plain, Collegiate; Clinton B. Scollard, Clinton, Classical.
The trustees of the Institute for 1877 were Rev. Asa Saxe, D.D., Rochester ;. Ezra S. Barnum, Esq., Utica; Hon. Ezra Graves, Herkimer; Rev. L. J. Fletcher, Buf- falo ; Edmund Terry, Esq., Waterville ; Orrin Terry, Esq., Marshall; Rev. Daniel Ballou, Utica; Oscar B. Gridley, Esq,, Waterville; James W. Cronkhite, Esq., Little Falls; Hon. John Westover, Richmondville; E. B. Armstrong, Esq., Rome; Simeon Tingue, Esq., Fort Plain.
Officers of the board : Rev. Asa Saxe, D.D., President ; Hon. Ezra Graves, Vice-President ; Rev. D. Ballon, Secre- tary ; Orrin Terry, Esq., Treasurer ; Executive Committee, Hon. Ezra Graves, Rev. Daniel, Ballou, J. W. Crenk- hite, Esq., Oscar B. Gridley, Esq,, Orrin Terry, Esq .; Ex- amining Committees for State Convention : Rev. L. G. Powers, Mrs. Dr. J. I. Scollard ; Dean, F. Currie, Esq., Clinton ; Rev. J. V. Wilson, Clinton ; Mrs. E. R. Scollard, Clinton ; Rev. Charles F. Lee, Utica; Rev. G. B. R. Clarke, A.M., Rome; Albert Owen, Esq., Clinton ; Frank D. Budlong, Clinton ; Miss L. C. Anderson, Clinton.
The names of members of the faculty, committees, etc., herewith given, are taken from the catalogue of 1877,
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the exercises at the close of the school year of 1877-78 having occurred since our material was gathered. The In- stitute is in a flourishing condition, and is, like its sister institutions in the village, an honor to the place. The village of Clinton is remarkable for its healthful attrac- tiveness, and the various educational institutions in and around it have given it a classical air, and elevated and refined the morals of the community where they are lo- cated. Truly, Clinton may be proud of the course she has taken in laying firm foundations for the education of the youth of the land.
THE YOUNG LADIES' DOMESTIC SEMINARY .*- (CLINTON.)
In the year 1832, Rev. Hiram H. Kellogg commeneed in Clinton the establishment of a seminary for young ladies, which, while furnishing facilities for a thorough Christian education, should be conducted on such a method as to en- able persons of limited means to enjoy its advantages. The rates of tuition were placed at the lowest sum by which such an institution could be sustained, and besides this, compensating employment was furnished in domestic and other avocations, adapted to the age and condition of each pupil, by which the scholars might reduce the cost of their board and tuition to a considerable amount.
Having erected and furnished his building, Mr. Kellogg opened his school in the spring of the year 1833, under the name of the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary. The school was full at the beginning, and such was the pressure of applicants beyond its capacity that the building was materially enlarged during the first year.
During the first eight years of its history its rooms were uniformly filled, the usual attendants numbering from seventy to eighty. The whole number educated here dur- ing those years was upwards of five hundred. Notwith- standing its peculiar features, which commended it especially to the poor, it was liberally patronized by the wealthy fam- ilies of central New York, and was as universally popular as any similar institution in this part of the State. The full amount charged for board and tuition nover exceeded $120 per year. The amounts deducted from this in com- pensation for work performed usually ranged from ten to fifty per cent. of the face of the regular bills. And so it came to pass that a large number of Christian ladies were here educated at an expense of only from $50 to $60 a year, who afterwards became eminently useful in missionary work at home and abroad.
But the amount of good accomplished by this seminary was not limited to the education and usefulness of its pupils. It is due to the truth of history to record that this school was visited by those who were maturing plans for the establishment of other institutions in Illinois, Ohio, and New England, and that its peculiar features were, to some extent, adopted by them. One of these instances may here be recorded : In the summer of 1834, Mr. Kellogg visited the Female Seminary at Ipswich, Mass., then conducted by the Misses Grant and Lyon. At the request of the teachers he addressed the collected school and sketched,
the outline of his plan and its results. Miss Lyon was so deeply interested in the project that she resolved to visit Mr. Kellogg's seminary at an early opportunity. During hier next vacation she came to Clinton, and after a full ex- amination of the practical workings of this institution went home resolved to establish a new seminary, in which the leading features of this school should have a prominent place. Hence arose the Mount Holyoke Seminary at South Hadley, Mass., whose fame is in all the land. If the facts were fully known it would appear also that the semi- nary at Monticello, Ill., and the female department of Knox College, Ill., and of Oberlin College, Ohio, and the Elmira Female College, New York, and other similar institutions have been moulded and encouraged by the seminary which for eight years was so successfully conducted among us.
In 1841, Mr. Kellogg, having been elected to the presi- dency of Knox College, sold his seminary property to an association of Free-will Baptists and removed with his family to Galesburg, Ill. The Baptists, after conducting the school for three years on a different plan, t relinquished it, when it was opened by Mr. Pelatiah Rawson as a pri- vate school. The failure of Mr. Rawson's health caused the school to be closed.
In 1847, in consequence of his infirm health and his property here falling back into his hands, Mr. Kellogg re- turned to Clinton and attempted to resuscitate the semi- nary and to make it a school for both sexes. It was not so casy to revive a decaying school as to create a new one, yet some considerable success attended the effort. In 1850 Mr. Kellogg deemed it best, for reasons which need not here be stated, to close the institution.
HOUGHTON SEMINARY, CLINTON.
Of the various educational institutions at Clinton, the one bearing the above title is by no means the least im- portant. It was established as the " Home Cottage Semi- nary," in the year 1854, by Miss Louisa M. Barker, previ- ously connected with the female department of the Clinton Liberal Institute. The building, which is located in a picturesque position on an eminence south of the village, overlooking the Oriskany Valley, is 150 feet in length and 54 in width, is two stories high above an elevated basement, and has two towers three stories high.
Miss Barker, a most efficient teacher, remained here until 1861, when she sold the seminary to Dr. J. C. Gallup. The latter took immediate possession of the property, and changed the name to " Houghton Seminary," in August, 1861, in honor of his wife, Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup, the associate principal. The grounds, consisting originally of eight acres, have been enlarged to twenty acres. Through various improvements the value of the buildings has been largely increased, and the lawns and gardens have been greatly beautified. The institution is under the care of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, has a large and valuable library of over a thousand volumes, and its collegiate course requires four years of study in the elassi-
# This sketch was prepared by Rev. H. H. Kellogg, the first Princi- pal, and inserted in Gridley's History of Kirkland.
+ While in charge of the Baptists it was known as the Clinton Seminary, and in 1844 was removed to Whitestown, where it became the Whitestown Seminary.
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cal and higher English branches. A pleasant reading-room in connection is supplied with all the leading periodicals of a literary, scientifie, and religious character, to which all the young ladies have free access by paying one dollar per year. The proximity of the seminary to the astronomical ob- servatory, the mineralogical and geological cabinet, the chemical laboratory, philosophical apparatus and library of Hamilton College, is of great advantage, especially to those engaged in the study of the natural sciences. The average attendance at the seminary since Dr. Gallup took charge has been about ninety.
The following are the various officers and the faculty : Board of Trustees: Hon. Othniel S. Williams, Samuel W. Raymond, M.D., Prof. Edward North, Gen. C. H. Smyth, J. C. Gallup, M.D. Board of Examination : Rev. Thomas B. Hudson, D.D., Clinton ; Prof. Germain G. Porter, Hamilton College; Rev. William Reese, Clinton ; Rev. I. N. Terry, New Hartford; Rev. A. A. Watson, Clinton. Committee of Regents' Examination : Lorenzo Rouse, Esq., B. F. Libby, Esq., Rev. I. L. Powell. Faculty : John C. Gallup, A.M., M.D., Physiology, Geology, and Moral Sci- ence; Mrs. Marilla H. Gallup, Mental Philosophy and Criticism ; Miss Abbie S. Hervey, Latin and Natural Sci- ences ; Mrs. Frances G. Lee, English Branches and His- tory ; Miss Adelaide H. Whitfield, Higher Mathematics and English Branches ; Miss Annie L. Wright, Latin; Miss Fannie E. Frink, Latin and English ; M'lle. Carolina Sandberg, French and German; Miss Sarah L. Dartt, Vocal and Instrumental Music; F. B. Ellinwood, Organ, Piano, and Voice; Dwight Williams, Objeet Drawing and Painting.
COTTAGE SEMINARY, CLINTON.
After retiring from the " Home Cottage Seminary," Miss Louisa M. Barker established the above institution as a family school, fitted for fourteen boarders. Since her de- cease it has passed into the hands of Miss Annie Chipman, lang an associate principal with Miss Barker. It is situ- ated on College Street, in the midst of several acres of ground, which have been beautifully laid out, and was built expressly for the purposes of a boarding school and semi- nary. Miss Chipman has maintained the school with a very high degree of efficiency and success. The aim of the institution is to combine good educational advantages with the right kind of home influence. Particular attention is paid to the elementary branches, the pupil being then pre- pared to enter upon the regular course of study, which in- cludes the usual branches of an English education. These studies are made practical and familiar by illustrative exer- eises, selected readings, and conversation. The class of 1877 consisted of seven members. The graduates previous to that year numbered thirty.
Miss Chipman has associated with her as assistants Misses Laura M. Strong, Anna P. Little, Jennie E. Criswell, A. Belle Johnson, and Nettie Cook.
HAMILTON COLLEGE .*
I. Hamilton Oneida Academy.
" In the biography of the missionary Kirkland we find that as early as the year 1790 he was meditating a plan for
the education of the Indian tribes of central New York. In the year 1792 he had matured his seheme so far as to include within it a system of primary schools for native children and an academy for English youth, together with a select number of older Indian boys from the various tribes of the Confederacy. Three of these primary schools were established, and continued in efficient operation for several years. For the convenience of both parties he pro- posed to place his academy near what was then the bound- ary line between the white settlements and the Indian ter- ritory. The project was well approved everywhere, but perhaps it found its warmest friends among those intelligent families which had recently emigrated from New England and settled in the adjoining towns."
The Indian boys to be admitted to the academy were, in Mr. Kirkland's words, " to be instructed in the principles of human nature, in the history of civil society, so as to be able to discern the difference between a state of nature and a state of civilization, and know what it is that makes one nation differ from another in wealth, power, and happiness; and in the principles of natural religion, the moral precepts, and the more plain and express doctrines of Christianity."
The settlers in the vicinity may have somewhat doubted the success of the academy so far as the Indians were con- cerned, but felt sure it would be beneficial to the white population.
In 1792, Mr. Kirkland went to New York and Phila- delphia to consult certain eminent oculists,-he having re- ceived an injury to one of his eyes while riding through the woods,-and on that journey gave his first serious thoughts to the academy. He visited the Governor of the State and the Regents of the University, and with their co-operation took the first steps towards procuring a charter, which was obtained the following year,-1793. He was largely aided by Alexander Hamilton and Colonel Picker- ing, and while at Philadelphia called upon President Wash- ington, who expressed a warm interest in the welfare of the institution. Mr. Hamilton was one of the trustees named in the petition for its incorporation, and after him it was named the " Hamilton Oneida. Academy." The preamble of the original charter is as follows :
" Whereas, Samuel Kirkland, Jonas Platt, Eli Bristoll, Erastus Clark, Joel Bristoll, Sewall Hopkins, James Dean, and Michael Myers, by an instrument in writing, under their hands and scals, bearing date the 12th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1792, after stating, among other things, that they are founders and benefactors of a cer- tain Academy in Whitestown, contiguous to the Oneida Nation of Indians, in the County of Herkimer, in the State aforesaid, who have contributed more than one-half in the value of the real and personal property and estate collected and appointed for the use and benefit of said Academy, did make application to ns, the said Regents, that the said Academy might be incorporated, and hecome subject to the visita- tion of us and our successors, and that we would signify our approba- tion that Alexander Hamilton, John Lansing, Egbert Benson, Dan Bradley, Eli Bristoll, Erastus Clark, James Dean, Moses Fnot, Thomas R. Gold, Sewall Hopkins, Michael Myers, Jonas Platt, Jedediah Sanger, John Sargeant, Timothy Tuttle, and Samuel Wells, named in the said application, and their successors, might be a body corporate and politie, by the name and style of the Trustees of Hamiton Oneida Academy."t
The Regents duly " signified their approbation," and the
# Principally from Gridley's History of Kirkland.
t Jones' Annals.
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charter was signed by George Clinton, Chancellor, and N. Lawrence, Secretary.
In April, 1793, a subscription-paper was circulated for means to build the academy. It was headed by Mr. Kirk- land with a valuable donation of land as a site for the institution ... The following is a copy of this subscription list, and shows the good will of the people, though their means were somewhat limited :
Names of Subscribers. Cash. Other Items.
£ 8. d.
Samuel Kirkland. 10 0 0 and 15 days' work. Also 300 neres of land for the use and benefit of the Academy, to be loaned, t and the product nppliel towards the support of ao able instruc- tor.
John Sargeant.
0
Moses Foot 2 0 0
aod 1000 feet timber, 5000 feet boards, sad 20 diye' work.
James Dean. 8
0
0 and 2000 feet hemlock boards.
Jedediah Sauger.
100 feet 7 x 0 glass, 100 acres of land, of 45th lot in the 20th township in the Unndilla purchase.
Sewall Hopkins. 2 Timothy Tuttle. 2
0
0 and ten days' labor.
0 0 500 feet clapboards, 1000 shingles, and 10 days' work.
Dan Bradley.
2
0
0
Eli Bristoll ..
0
0
400 feet timber, and 20 days' work.
Ralph Kirkland.
1.
16 .0 and 6 days' work. .
Shene D. Sackett.
0
8
0 and 6 days' work.
Setli -Blair.
1
0 0 and 6 days' work.
Deudorns Clark
2
0
0 and 1000 feet of boards.
2
0
0
3
0
0
3
0
0
Isaac Jones
1 -. 10 0
Elias Kane.
10
0 0
Henry Merrill.
0 0
John Young ..
0 0.
Jesss Munger.
1
0
0 and 4 days' work. and 2000 fert claplioards.
Elizar Mosely
4
0
Lorin Webb ....
0
8
0 and 6 days' work.
Joshua Vanghan ...
4 and 1000 boards.
Ephraim Blackmer.
G
0
0
Joseph Blackmer.
1
0
Q and 3 days' work.
Israel Green ..
0
0 and 6 days' work.
Joel Bristoll .....
8 0
0 and 300 feet treiber and 20 days' work:
Exra Hart
0
0 and G days' work.
Agron Henman ..
0
10 0. and 6 days' work.
Abner Ormsby.
1000 huila.
Steplien Willard.
2
0
0
200 .feet timlier, 20 pounds nails, and 6 days' work.
Brooson Foot .!
1
12
Consider Law ..
...
Julio. Blunt .:
...
...
Solomon Thompson 0
8
0 sud 6 days' work,
John Townsend ...
2
0 0
Amus Parmarley.
0 10
Nathan Townsend, Silas Phelps.
2
0
Moses Dewitt ..
3 0
0
1 10
0
Nathaniel Griffin ..
4
0
0
payable in grain.
Eliakim Elmore.
1
0
0 and £3 payable in timber.
0
0 nnd 3 days' labor.
1
0
U and £33 payable in grain.
0
Ira Foot.
0
0
10
Ebenezer Butler 2
0
0
Timothy Pond, Jr.
1
0
0
Broome & Platt ..
Stephen Barrett
C 0
Amus Kellogg.
1 0 0 and 6 days' work.
Oliver Tattle ....
1 0
1
0
0 and 6 days' worke.
Aaron Kellogg.
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
...
Elijah Blodgett.
1
0 0 and G days' work.
Seeley Findli ..
0
0
Josiah Bradoet.
1
0
0
0 Joseph Stanteb .. 8
0
8
0 and 3 daya' work.
Rufus Stanton .... ......
8
0
and 3 days' work.'
Amos Blair.
8
Oliver .Phelps .: 10
0
Samuel Tuttle. ... ...
1000 feet clspboards, to be delivered at the .mill.
Peter Smith :.
10
Tuomas R. Geld.
5
0 0
£168 8 0
With the means thus procured, and the aid of others throughout the State, the building of the academy was
begun. " The place chosen for its site was about midway between the present South College and the chapel. Ground was broken and the foundation laid July 1, 1794. To give some degree of dignity and importance to the occasion, Mr. Kirkland. invited the Baron de Steuben to be present, and to officiate in the ceremony of laying the corner-stone. The brave old general was met on his arrival at Clinton by Cap- tain George W. Kirkland, a son of the Dominie, and at the head of a troop of horsemen was escorted to the grounds of the new academy." Two or three daughters were in the cavalcade, on horseback, and the venerable Oneida chieftain, Skcanandoa, then ninety years of age, was also one of the company. Mr. Kirkland was highly gratified at seeing the corner-stone of his academy laid by one who had served in arms with the gallant Hamilton, and whose services in behalf of his adopted country gave him lasting fame.
After the foundation of the academy was laid and the frame raised, the means for carrying on the work failed, and operations were suspended for nearly two years. The partly finished structure- was designated by some " Kirk- land's folly." The zealous missionary, however, did not. become disheartened ; he pressed others into the work of obtaining funds (among them Joel Bristoll), and their suc- cess was such that the means were secured for inclosing the building, Early in 1798 a large room in the south end of the second story, and two small rooms on the lower floor, were finished, and the two front chimneys built. The large room in the second story -- known as the " arched room"- was designed and used. for a chapel. After various subse- quent reverses the building was finally finished, with a suf- ficient number of rooms to meet the needs of the institu- tion. The structure was three stories in height, ninety feet in length, and thirty-eight in width. Mr. Kirkland had the satisfaction of seeing his academy opened for pupils, its chairs of instruction filled by capable teachers, and appli- cants for admission flocking to it from every quarter.
In order to carry out his plan of educating the Indian youth; Mr. Kirkland, the year previous to the opening of the school, brought from Oneida several of the most prom- ising lads of the tribe, clothed them in the same manner as the white boys were dressed, committed part of them to the care of Eli Bristoll, and kept the rest in his own family. He sought to train them in the ways of civilization accord- ing to his understanding, but they soon became restless under restraint, and by the end of the first year it was found necessary to let them return to their old haunts at Oneida.
In 1797,; Rev. John Niles, a graduate of Yale College, took charge of the school as its first principal. He held: this position three years, and became obliged to change his vocation on account of failing health. He acquired his reverend title after leaving the academy, and removed to Bath, Steuben Co. He died in 1812.
" Rev. James Murdock was associated with Mr. Niles during one year of his preceptorship. Studying theology with Rev. Dr. Norton, of Clinton, he afterwards became a professor of languages in tlie University of Vermont, and
t Judge Jones says 1794; we give both dales, and leave the question to those who have betler facilities for determining. correctly.
f Also given " to be lensed."
1 1
4 days' work. ...
1000 feet of bonrds and 3 days' work.
1 10 0
0 payable in blacksmith-werk.
Thomas Ilooker. Noah Taylor ..
0 16
·0 U payable in grain. payable in grain.
Robert Darke ..:
4
0
1 10 0 payable in grain.
Ebenezer Seeley.
Samuel Wells .....
1
Thomas Hart.
3 2
0 and 1000 feet lwards, and -20 days' work. and 2 days' surveying Innd.
200 feet timber, 100 feet boards, and 500 feet clapbo irds.
nnd 1000 feet boards.
300 feet of 7 x 9 glass,
40 shillings' valne in pine boards, first rate.
Thomas Whitcomb James Smith, Jr ... Barnabas Pond.
0 and G dave' work. 0 und (i days' work. 1000 feet boards.
... ... ... 1000 shingles.
Henry Holley. ...........
1
and G dnys' work.
and 3 days' work.
Pomroy Hull
0 0
00 0
and 3 days' work.
1 2
Samnel Laird.
2
0 0 and 2000 feet boards.
Erastus Clark
Jonas Platt ..:
Thomas Cassety.
and 1000 fret boards and 6 days' werk. 0
Seth Robert .....
Elias Dewey
Peleg Havens.
Joseph Boynten.
1
4 O
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of church history in Andover Theological Seminary. He was a man of studious habits and sound learning. His translation of Mosheim's 'Ecclesiastical History' will long remain a monument to his industry and exact scholarship."
Rev. Robert Porter became principal of the academy in September, 1801. He was also a graduate of Yale, and had been serving for a considerable time as a home-mission- ary among the small settlements along Black River. He remained in the academy four years, and then joined a colony which was about to establish the town of Pratts- burgh, N. Y.
Seth Norton, brother of Rev. Dr. Norton, becanie prin- cipal in the autumn of 1805, and, except one year spent in New Haven as tutor, he held the position until 1812, when the institution was raised to the rank of a college, and he was appointed professor of languages. " Mr. Norton was a man of considerable mental force and. weight of char- acter. His personal appearance was not pleasing, for his complexion was dark, his eyes blue, his manners jerky, and his speech rapid and abrupt. Yet he was a thorough scholar, and made his pupils thorough and accurate, and be inspired them with a love of study. He was particularly fond of. music, and was himself a superior singer. For many years he was the chorister of the village church. Both the words and the music of the familiar tune ' Devon- shire,' beginning ' Ye servants of God, your Master pro- claim,' were composed by him. For many years he was compelled to struggle with infirm health. He died in De- cember, 1818, the first year of his married life. His re- mains were deposited in the College Cemetery."*
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