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Parallel with Ithaca - known for education.

Then term "academy" corning free academy FA Century of Schoolsi in Ckinton Helen Nelson rudd. Clinton Historical Society ubication number one. Cinton 1964 p. 1: it "somewhat resembles a game f musicamchairs" Schols "in at least thirty-five locations andschools by more thanforty different names.

In the nineteenth century, Clinton, because of Hamilton College, was an educational center. The only negative was the Oneida Boys. But it was a center for more than the college: it was a village with a profusion of schools at the primary and secomdary levels. First one hamilton-oneida academy. Gerrit smith studied there

It is no simple matter to provide an inventory of the schools in Clinton. Different figures - chs publication. There was no authority in Albany keeping track of or setting standards for the schools. Most were small, and plenty of them were one-room schools, run in people's houses. There was a public school on East Park Row, but it was poorly funded and did not even cover the six years we think of as primary school.

Those schools that had separate buildings were

Schools had classical languages, Latin annd Greek Regents exam what they did not hahve were experimental sciences, business, modern foreign languages, and music and art. (Music and French were sometimes taught as add-ons in the Girls' schools. Social studiesi The Hamilton-Oneida Academy had given Clinton a reputation as a city of schools. Mental arithmatic, cobb's juvenile reader, geography, history, theoretical science (no experiments), English

Behind houses now locdated at 86 and 88 college street

From young lafies' domestic seminary 1835: junior class histry ancient and modern, geometry, arithmatic, natural philosophy Senior class: geography, physics, physiology, rhetoric, astronmy, moral philosophy, natural theology, "analogy of religion" teaching, ancient literature

The schools all charged tuition, and therefore w ere limited to the children of those families with the ability to pay tuition, and also to do without the children for farm work. The schools were relatively small, by today's standards. An enrollment of 40 was a good-sized school. In contrast, when the Clinton free school, with state funding, opened in 1891, there were 190 students the first day. So by and large the schools were educating the upper middle class.

Give example of courses.

After the Hamilton-Oneida Academy and the foundation of Hamilton College, the first school established was the Clinton Grammar School, located far out on College St.

This was the school future President Grover Cleveland studied in, his last formal education. Elihu Root also studied there. It ended up having two buildings.

Beyond the primary level there was a great deal of confusion. Schools named Academy, like Corning Free Academy, had there on understanding of what a college preparatory education was. There was no state control or even standards; the only control on wuality is what the colleges would accept as sufficient preparation.

The Historical Society has a good collection of materials from the schools: mailings sent to parents, programs of graduations and other events, photographs, dance programs, correspondence and photographs.

P. 1: opened Marvin Street School as the first union school in 1893. HOAcademy ened in 1793. P. 1 "epidemic proportions, bringing students from a wide area of central New York and from even farther afield."

P. 2: 1802 old brick school P. 5: Samuel Kirkland had idea of educating "Indian lads" first year: twenty-five white and four Indian children Cornerstone of building laid by Baron von Steuben this was in 1793. "Real opening" in 1798. P. 6: seth Norton only teacher. P. 7 grammar school closed in 1892, had four different names

P. 6: 1812 Academy became Hamilton College. "No local school where advanced students could prepare to enter the college, nor was there any building available" grammar school opened in 1816.

Pilkingtn walter p. 19: of 30 Indian students "only four soke English with any faciity" p. 31 school underway by end of 1793" p. 33 in 1794 early wooden schl burned. No school for several years after P. 34: 1795 "frame of an edifice...partly enclosed. P. 37 1797 "the nadir" P. 38 opened "its doors for almost twenty students. P. 39 one teacher Niles p. 59: Murdock came in 1799. Building unfinished but about 50 students, 20 of them girls taught separately. Only one Indian. P. 41 1804 "Regents established a prescribed form in which the academies of the state were required to submit their reports" English grammar, ciphering, mathematics, bookeeping, dead languages, logic, rhetoric, composition, etc., moral philosophy, etc.; French and natural philosophy Fifty to sixty of both sexes P. 43 "By 1805 the Academy was well established." Fifty students paying $12 each. So encouraging petitioned Regents for a change of status from academy to college.

P. 46 support from Utica

P. 47 1811 the last report, of 150 students: 5 in reading and writing, 76 in English grammar, 30 in mathematics, 30 in the dead languages, 25 in logic, rgetoric and composition, and 2 in moral philosophy.

P. 51 need for a college in Western New York P. 56 first meeting of Hamilton trustees 1812 Rivalry of medical college at Fairfield, Herkimer County p. 57

P. 64: H-OA ended under its original name in 1812. P. 65: histories diverge in 1815

Following from Rudd A Century P. 8 handsome building at Elm and Nortoon Avenue. Opened 1857. In 1865 destroyed by fire. Moved to College St. ; additional building purchased and old building renovated. High School and Houghton Seminary. P. 9: both schools received public money. P. 9: graded union school opened (when?) with 191 studebnts. P. 15: the Cottage Seminary

Pilkington p. 41: latin, greek, arithmetic, geography, english grammar, and surveying p. 41 in 1804 Regents established a forn M: reading amd writing, English grammar, cipheribg etc., mathematics, bookeeping &c., dead languages, logic, rhetoric, composition, etc., moral philosophy etc., French, and natural philosophy [science?] pp. 45: for the first two decades of the century, (p. 46) Utica appeared to be the coming city in the region, potentially one of the most importatant trabsportation centers in the United States. ... The bubble did not long surviive, but the College was founded when it was at its plumpest.p. 50 fairfield trustees started a medical department

Percy L. Wight "clinton's Schools Hamilton Alumni Review vol. 2 May, 1937 pp. 117-121 In foldee "Domestic Seminary clinton grammar" p. 118: clinton liberal institute torn down in 1903 has map

Home cottage seminary has map of schools. Undated clipping says the female department of the grammar school moved to Home Cottage.