Visscher, Matthew.. Succession of Regents chosen by the Legislature in the order of their Election, from their first Nomination in the Act of April 13, 1787, to the year 1885, inclusive. NAMES. Rev. John Rodgers, D. D.... Prosper M. Wetmore.... Egbert Benson, LL. D...... John Suydam... Washington Irving Elias W. Leavenworth, LL. D Philip Schuyler. Ambrose Spencer, IL. D... William Campbell.. Martin Van Buren, LL. D. Ezra L'Hommedien.. Gideon Hawley, LL. D... Rev. Nathan Kerr.... Lucas Elmendorf...... James Thompson.. Robert Campbell, Jr... Horatio G. Warren. April 13, 1787..... April 13, 1787..... April 13, 1787. April 13, 1787.. March 19, 1829... * Reported vacant from non-attendance. William L. Bostwick, Peter Sylvester........... Nathan Smith...... Harmanus Bleecker, LL. D.. April 13, 1787 January 31, 1809. Resigned. Died. April 3, 1787.. February 18, 1796.. February 1, 1820. February 13, 1824.... February 20, 1827. March 23, 1831. February 2, 1846. March 21, 1855.. February 2, 1881 April 13, 1787....... April 13, 1787. April 13, 1787 Apr 13, 1787 April 13, 1787. April 13, 1787......... April 13, 1787. April 13, 1787. February 11. 1808.. January 12, 1825. April 13, 1858.. March 29, 1859. February 5, 1861... March 18, 1885..... December 5, 1858.. December 14, 1881...... October 22, 1880.. January 21, 1823... March 2, 1829. January 3, 1862 August 22, 1876..... February 13, 1923. October 29, 1849 March 27, 1864. December 31, 1873 January 22, 1798....... December 3, 1834....... March 25, 1844.... November 22, 1877..... April 20, 1844.. May 8, 1864. February 17, 1876.. Died. March 18, 1870.. May 5, 1873.. Died. Resigned. Died. December 26, 1790.. September 12, 1807. July 2, 1812.... March 3, 1819.. January 26, 1839. Died. Died. Died. Resigned. April 17, 1847 October 8, 1869.. November 16, 1815.. Died. Resigned. December 10, 1857 Died. † Vacancy declared from non-attendance, Mr. S. having been appointed Secretary of War. Resigned upon being elected a trustee of Hartwick Seminary. Dates of election. February 11, 1808.... April 13, 1787. April 13, 1787.. April 29, 1869. April 24, 1873.. End of term Remarks. Reported vacant from non-attendance. † Mr. Coe assigned as his reason for declining, that being a Trustee of Union College and of Lansingburgh Academy, he thought he could be inore useful in these positions than upon the Board of Regents. I Vacant from becoming Judge of Circuit Court. Objections were raised against the retention by Mr. Graham of his seat in the Board of Regents, while one of the Council of the University of the City of New York. He appears to have held both offices about five years. (Senate Doc. 10, 1840, p. 18.) * Governor Clinton resigned the office of Chancellor April 4, 1783, and the office was vacant until after the reorganization in 1757. In the meantime the Lieutenant-Governor, or the Mayor of New York city, presided. Pierre Van Cortlandt, May 5, 1784. John Jay, July 17, 1787. Vice-Chancellors. Daniel S. Dickinson, January 12, 1843. John Rodgers, March 31, 1790. John Tavler, March 14, 1814. Simeon De Witt, February 3, 1817. Robert Harpur. May 5. 1784. Resigned February 23. 1841. Gulian C. Verplanck, July 13, 1858. Secretaries. Francis Bloodgood, March 19, 1798. + Samuel Buell Woolworth was born in Bridgehampton, Suffolk county, December 15, 1800; graduated from Hamilton College in 1822; was teacher in Monson Academy, Mass., in 1822-24; Principal of Onondaga Academy, 1824-30; Principal of Cortland Academy, in Homer, 1830-52; President of New York State Teachers' Association, 1847-48; Principal of State Normal School at Albany, 1852-56; received the degree of LL. D. from Hamilton College in 1854: Secretary of Regents, 1856-80. Ile resigned January 8, 1880; died in Brooklyn, June 30, 1880, and was buried in Homer, July 3, 1880. The proceedings upon the resignation of Dr. Woolworth, and upon the occasion of his death and funeral, and tributes to his memory, are recorded in the Proceedings of the University Convocation of 1882, pp. 648670. ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE REGENTS. Since their organization under the act of 1787, which required the Regents to report annually to the Legislature, no year has passed without a report. Before 1830, these reports were printed in the Legislative journals of one or both Houses - either under the dates when they were presented, or in an appendix at the end. Toward the end of this period, they were also printed separately in small octavo form. The following list of references will lead to these reports for each year, "S." being understood to mean "Senate Journal," and "A," to mean "Assembly Journal" of the folio series: 1788, S., p. 4; A., p. 97. 1809, S., p. 174; A., p. 367. 1815, S., p. 293. 1795, S., p. 41; A., p. 85. 1818, S., p. 319. 1796, S., p. 55. 1 97, S., p. 83. 1798, S., p. 87; A., p. 220. 1803, S., p. 117; A., p. 245. 1806, S., p. 129; A., p. 296. 1807, S., p. 146; A., p. 336. 1808, S., p. 224; A., p. 399. 1819, S., p. 259. 1820, S., p. 358; A., p. 1,009. 1827, S., p. 590 (App. B.). Since the adoption of the octavo form of Documents in 1830, the Regents' Reports have been included in the series as follows: Besides these Annual Reports relating to educational matters, the Regents have reported annually since 1845, upon the State Library, and since 1840, upon the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History (now the "State Museum "). CHAPTER XXXIV. UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The idea of a Convocation of those officially connected with the higher educational institutions of the State for consultation upon subjects of common interests was mentioned as an incidental feature in the plan proposed by Mr. Erastus C. Benedict, for the establishment of a University of active instruction, in 1857, but no measures were adopted at that time, for the carrying of this idea into effect. On the 9th of January, 1863, Mr. Benedict offered the following resolution at the annual meeting of the Board, and it was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That it is expedient to hold annually, under the direction of this Board, a meeting of officers of Colleges and Academies, and that a committee be appointed to draft a programme of business for the proposed meeting, to fix the time and place, and to make such other arrangements as they may deem necessary." |