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Upon his first wife's death in 1885 he turned to higher education and became the first president of the Longmont Presbyterian College founded by the Presbyterian Synod of Colorado. He was appointed president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1891 and served until 1899 when he resigned to become president of the Ohio State University.
From 1823 to 1842, Swan served as president of the Franklin Bank of Columbus. In 1845, the General Assembly appointed him to the Board of Control of the Bank of Ohio. [1] He was appointed the first president of the State Bank of Ohio and held that position until 1854. [3] Swan married Amelia Aldrich in Hillsboro, New Hampshire in 1819. They had ...
The 1823 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on 7 November 1823 in order to elect the Governor of Georgia. Democratic-Republican candidate and former United States Senator for Georgia George Troup narrowly defeated fellow Democratic-Republican candidate and former acting Governor Matthew Talbot in a Georgia General Assembly vote. [1]
December 2 – Monroe Doctrine: U.S. President James Monroe delivers a speech to the U.S. Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. December 23 – The poem A Visit From St. Nicholas, attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, is first published.
Category: 1823 in education. ... Educational organizations established in 1823 (2 C) S. School buildings completed in 1823 (1 P)
The first school built in the area which is now part of Columbus was a log cabin school-house built in Franklinton, in 1806. It was not until 1845 that the state of Ohio Legislature entrusted the management of Columbus schools to a Board of Education. Two years later the school board elected Dr. Asa Lord as the district's first superintendent. Dr.
The governing authority for the school system is known as the Fayette County Board of Education, a board of five elected persons. They hire a superintendent to manage daily operations of the schools. Since a federal court ruling in 2013, resulting from the federal voting rights lawsuit described above, the five board members are each elected ...
The same act in 1858 also allowed each county to convene its own "board of examiners" to certify teachers, and an act of the following year allowed each county to convene a board of education. Finally, in 1870, the Georgia State Board of Education was established, and was originally composed of the Governor, the Attorney General, the Secretary ...