National Normal University

For the Taiwanese school, see National Taiwan Normal University.

Letterhead (1896) for The National Normal University

National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. Located in southwestern Ohio, it opened in 1855 as Southwestern Normal School and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president and the school's guiding force for most of its existence. He resigned in 1897 after 42 years. In 1907 the NNU became public and changed its name to Lebanon University. The school went bankrupt in and finally closed in 1917. The school merged with Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. The Warren County (Ohio) Historical Society in Lebanon, Ohio, now holds Lebanon University's records. In 1933 Alfred Holbrook College opened on the same campus. AHC moved to Manchester, Ohio where it closed in 1941. The original campus was demolished in 1977.

Notable alumni

• Horatio C. Claypool, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Clement L. Brumbaugh, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Francis B. De Witt, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Lucien J. Fenton, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• William T. Fitzgerald, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John W. Harreld, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Oklahoma
• Cordell Hull, a U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Isaac C. Ketler, Presbyterian scholar, founder of Grove City College
• Andrew Armstrong Kincannon, Chancellor of the University of Mississippi
• Monroe Henry Kulp, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• John J. Lentz, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John A. McDowell, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist
• Stephen Morgan, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• Will E. Neal, a U.S. Representative from West Virginia
• Miner G. Norton, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• James D. Post, a U.S. Representative from Ohio
• John M. Robsion, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Kentucky
• W. D. Twichell (Class of 1883, civil engineering), Texas surveyor
• George M. Wertz, a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• Edward E. Moore, Indiana state senator and Los Angeles City Council member

See also

• Normal school

External links

• "Fountain Citians Who Made a Difference: The Holbrooks"
• Ohio Historical Society article
• Warren County site with extensive history