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Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in the Clinton, New York, area. [4] It was established as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and received its charter as Hamilton College in 1812, in honor of Alexander Hamilton , one of its inaugural trustees, following a proposal made after his death in 1804.
The Hamilton-Oneida Academy was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812. A student of the Iroquoian languages , Kirkland lived for many years with the Iroquois tribes. He helped negotiate the land purchases that New York State made from the Iroquois after the American Revolutionary War, acquiring his own land in the process.
Rev. Hiram Huntington Kellogg Sr., graduate of Hamilton College, founder of the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary and first president of Knox College; Samuel Kirkland, a missionary among the Oneida, obtained a charter for Hamilton College in 1812; Sarah J. Maas, author of Throne of Glass series of fantasy novels, graduated from Hamilton College
Hamilton was first called Hamilton-Oneida Academy when it was established in 1793, and became Hamilton College in 1812 when it was named in honor of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton ...
Gerrit Smith, who previously studied in the Hamilton–Oneida Academy, was Hamilton's first valedictorian (1818); he married the daughter of Dr. Backus, the college president. He served on the Hamilton Board of Trustees from 1825 to 1837, resigning the position over what he viewed as insufficient college support for abolitionism. [14]: 149 He ...
Oneida was the first and leading American example of the manual labor college, which Gale thought he had originated, although there were earlier examples, [11]: 34–35 and Weld had proposed a manual labor program unsuccessfully to Hamilton College.
A monument to Skenandoa was erected by the Northern Missionary Society at the Hamilton College cemetery. Its inscription recognizes his leadership, friendship with Kirkland, and important contributions to the rebel colonists during the war. [11] In 2002 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Oneida County Historical Society. [17]
Oneida County almost split in two 100 years ago: A look back at Mohawk Valley history