[With respect to the lists of Principals in the following pages, it should be remarked that from imperfections in existing records it has been found quite im possible in some cases to prepare perfect lists. They should, therefore, be regarded as only approximately complete. The titles appended are generally those which were reported as pertaining to these persons while employed as Principals, and at the end of the period while so reported. They may have afterward received degrees of higher grade, but of this no notice is taken. As the lists prior to 1850 were prepared from unpublished returns, and by clerks who had not been previously instructed upon this point, many persons may have been mentioned without noticing the literary titles belonging to them in the earlier years of the period embraced.] ACADEMY AT LITTLE FALLS. (See "Little Falls Union School, Academic Department.") ACADEMY OF DUTCHESS COUNTY. (See "Poughkeepsie High School.") ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF THE CATARACT. (Niagara Falls, Niag ara Co.) Incorporated by the Legislature April 10, 1866. (Chap. 495, Laws of 1866.) ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART. (Rochester, Monroe Co.) Incorporated by the Legislature, April 11, 1849.1 (Chap. 427, Laws of 1849.) ADAMS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. (Adams, Jefferson Co.) Incorporated by the Regents April 22, 1855, but not fully organized when a proposition was received from General Solon D. Hungerford of Adams, for a substantial endowment. The name was changed March 24, 1864, to Hungerford Collegiate Institute. Under this name an Academic School was opened in a large building near the railroad station built for a hotel. This was burned in 1867, and a very fine building was soon afterward erected, upon a slight eminence on the northern border of the village, commanding a most By this act Jesse A. Auchinbaugh, of Rochester, was declared and constituted a corporation, with succession by his executors or trustees appointed by his last will and testament, subject to the general provisions of the Revised Statutes. The institution has not reported to the Regents. beautiful prospect, and in design and arrangement surpassed by but few Academies in the State.1 This building was occupied from 1870 to 1882, it having been sold for a debt, and the trustees being unable to agree with the purchaser for further occupation, upon terms that they deemed just, the school was removed in 1882 to a block in the business part of the village. It remained there until burned out, in a disastrous village fire August 28, 1884. The name "Adams Collegiate Institute," was restored by the Regents, in a provisional charter granted May 29, 1883, and declared absolute November 16, of that year. The Academic building has since been repurchased by D. A. Dwight and wife, of Adams, and conveyed by perpetual lease, subject to certain conditions to the present board of trustees. Principals. Rev. G. Dunbar Houghton, A. M., 1866-68. Orlo B. Rhodes, A. M., 1882. ADDISON ACADEMY. (See "Addison Union School, Academic Department.”) ADDISON UNION SCHOOL, ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. Steuben Co.) (Addison About the year 1848, an Academy was built by a joint stock company, and incorporated by the Regents, February 8, 1849. It was burned about 1856-8, and a new company was formed and another building erected. In 1869 this was sold to the school district and a Union School formed, which has since been conducted with success, the Academic department reporting to the Regents. Received under visitation April 21, 1868. Marvin N. Baldwin, 1848. Asa W. Smith, A. B., 1849. John Stacy, A. B., 1850-51. R. B. Van Patten, A. B., 1852. Fordyce Harrington, A. B., 1853. Francis M. Hyde, 1865-68. Principals. M. H. Paddock, 1869. Prof. J. H. Bosard. Theodore F. Welch, 1870-73. Ewing L. Richardson, A. B., 1875-79. ADELPHI ACADEMY OF BROOKLYN. (Brooklyn, Kings Co). Incorporated by the Regents, August 3, 1870. Homer B. Sprague, M. A., 1871-75. Principals. Stephen G. Taylor, A. M., Ph. D., 1876-82. 1 A description of this building with engravings will be found in the Regents Report of 1872, p. 461. AFTON UNION SCHOOL. (Afton, Chenango Co.) Organized under general act of May 2, 1864 (chap. 555, Laws of 1864). Admitted by Regents January 11, 1862. By a change in the limits of the district, it was, under a decision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, reduced to an ordinary school district. New proceedings for the organization of a Union Free School were had, and the Academic department was admitted by the Regents November 6, 1874. E. W. Rodgers, 1872-74. Principals. James L. Sprague, A. M., 1878-82. ALBANY ACADEMY. (Albany.) Incorporated by the Regents March 4, 1813. Concurrent resolutions were passed March 11-May 9, 1878, requesting the Governor to issue not over 125 light cadet muskets, with equipments, security being given for their safe keeping, and return when called for. (Laws of 1878, p. 515.) This has always been a Boys Academy, and it has uniformly ranked as one of the very best in the State. An edifice of dressed brown free stone in pure Italian style from the designs of Philip Hooker, the eminent Albany architect, was erected with a wing upon each side for residences, fronting upon a park, adjacent to the Capitol Park, and facing the east. The State Hall, [hereafter to be known as the State Museum] was afterward erected on the lower side of Eagle street directly opposite the Academy, and the adjacent streets include the finest and best portions of the city of Albany. While under the care of Prof. Mason, military instruction was introduced as an incidental part of the course, and the students wear a cadet uniform, and have a special teacher in this department. The library and collections of the Albany Institute, the direct descendant of the oldest scientific society in the State, are kept at the Academy, and in the winter months its stated meetings are held there. The semi-centennial anniversary of this Academy was celebrated June 26, 1863, and the occasion called together a very large number of former students, including many aged men and men in middle life, from every rank and profession. The proceedings were published in a volume entitled "Celebration of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Albany Academy, Albany, June 23, 1863." 8 vo. pp. 187. Benjamin Allen, LL. D., 1815-17. T. Romeyn Beck, M. D., LL. D., 1817-48. Rev. William A. Miller, A. M., 1853-56. Principals. David Murray, A. M., Ph. D., 1856-63. ALBANY FEMALE ACADEMY. (Albany.) Incorporated by the Legislature Feb. 16, 18211 (chap. 53, Laws of 1821). Admitted by Regents January 29, 1828.2 Alonzo Crittenden, 1827-44. L. Sprague Parsons, A. M., 1849-55. Eben S. Stearns, A. M., 1856-68. Principals. Miss Louisa Ostrom, 1860. Miss Louisa Ostrom and Wm. G. Nowell, 1878. [No returns in recent years.] ALBANY FEMALE SEMINARY. (Albany.) Incorporated by the Legislature April 9, 1828, (chap. 189, Laws of 1829). Admitted by Regents April 16, 1828. Rev. David Brown, 1829. Rev. John W. Garfield, 1831-48. Principals. Mrs. S. C. Nickerson, 1850-55. Mrs. Fannie L. Hussey, 1856-57. ALBANY HIGH SCHOOL. (Albany.) Organized under general act of April 7, 1866 (Chap. 444, Laws of 1866). Admitted by Regents, April 26, 1873. Named originally "The Free Academy of the City of Albany," but this was changed to the present one by the Albany Board of Public Instruction, in 1873. John E. Bradley, A. M., Ph. D., 1874. Principals. ALBANY PEARL STREET ACADEMY. (Albany, N. Y.) Incorporated by the Legislature, April 23, 1836 (Chapter 174, Laws of 1836, p. 235). No reports received. ALBION ACADEMY. (Albion, Orleans Co.) Incorporated by the Legislature, May 1, 1837 (Chap. 290, Laws of 1837). Admitted by the Regents, February 27, 1841. Established as a stock company. Capital, $10,000. Shares $25, and none to be trustees unless owning $100 of stock. This restriction was repealed April 20, 1836. Changed May 23, 1876, to 'No reports made for many years, although the Academy has been regularly continued. 2 Under an act passed February 28, 1822, the trustees were to be paid a sum not exceeding $1,000, from the sale of a lot on which a building had been erected by them. ALBION UNION SCHOOL, ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. Admitted by the Regents, January 11, 1877. Since that time the old academic building has been enlarged by adding two wings. Main building, 120 by 40 feet; wings, 60 by 40 feet each, and all two stories high, and built of brick. Edwin R. Reynolds, 1840-41. Principals Franklin S. Lyon, A. M., 1861-64. Freeman A. Green, A. M., 1877 ALEXANDER CLASSICAL SCHOOL. (See "Genesee and Wyoming Seminary.") ALFRED ACADEMY. (See "Alfred University, Academic Department.") ALFRED UNIVERSITY, ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT. (Alfred, Allegany Co.) The " Alfred Academy" was founded December 5, 1836, by the Seventh Day Baptist Denomination, and incorporated by the Regents January 31, 1843. Changed to "Alfred University " by the Legislature, March 28, 1857.1 By an act passed April 10, 1850,2 the sum of $10,000 was loaned for five years from the Common School Fund to the town of Alfred, with leave to re-loan the same to this Academy. By another act, passed April 11, 1856,3 the sum of $7,500 was appropriated to the Common School Fund in part payment of this loan. |