Colgate Founders collection, A1136
Scope and Contents
This is an artificial collection containing documents created by seven of the thirteen founders of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Colgate University). It includes correspondence, deeds, Robert Powell's autobiography, and Elisha Payne's will. Also included is a letter from Orrin B. Judd, an 1841 graduate of the institution.
Dates
- Creation: 1809-1871
Access to Collection
Collection is open for research.
Historical note
Thirteen men are traditionally credited with founding a school for the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York in 1819. The institution became known as Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, then Madison University, and, finally, Colgate University. The thirteen men are: John Bostwick, Joel W. Clark, Thomas Cox, Daniel Hascall, Charles W. Hull, Nathaniel Kendrick, Amos Kingsley, Jonathan Olmstead, Samuel Osgood, Elisha Payne, Samuel Payne, Robert Powell, and Peter Philanthropos Roots.
Howard Williams, A History of Colgate, 1819-1869 (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969), 8-9, http://cu-cel.org/cuhist/.
Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
- Title
- Guide to the Colgate Founders collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Allyson Smally and Sara Klik
- Date
- April 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Colgate University Libraries Repository
13 Oak Drive
Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
Colgate University
Hamilton New York 13346 United States US
315-228-6175
315-228-7934 (Fax)
