Auburn NY Daily 1856

Lowville NY Northern Journal - April 15, 1856

St. Lawrence University was founded in 1856 as a Theological Seminary with the corner stone of the first building laid by the eminent Universalist, Horace Greeley.

http://www.stlawu.edu/library/node/631

An 1959 Issue of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer, cited   July 29, 1942

Ogdensburg Advance - March 22, 1861

St. Lawrence Plaindealer March 1861

St Lawtence Plaindealer October 6, 1864

St Lawrence Plaindealer March 9, 1865

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1935

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SLU  Staff- 1873/4 from the Childs Gazeteer:

St. Lawrence University, Canton, Rev. A. G. Gaines, acting prest. and Chappin professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy; Rev Moses Marston, A. M. professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature; John Stocker Miller, A.M., professor of Mathematics and German; Edwin C. Bolles, Ph.D., lecturer on Microscopy, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany; James Henry Chapin, A.M., professor of Geology and Mineralogy; Martha A Hardacker, instructor in French; Marcia A. Adams, B.S., tutor; Prof. M. Marson, librarian,

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SLU Theolological School History Link:

http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/stlawrence.html

1858 St Lawrence University & Universalist Theological School

Etching from 1858 Map by AE Rogerson CE - Published by JB Shields - Philadelphia

Built by Dart & Rutherford (Civil War Medal of Honor) 

Canton Commercial Advertiser - by Richard C. Ellsworth - May 15, 1928

SLU from Harpers Weekly Dec 5, 1868

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 10, 1929

SLU 1885 - (11) Fisher, (12) Richardson, (13) Herring Library,

Park, Mechanic, Lincoln, Elm, College Streets

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1903

SLU

Early SLU Photo - from Gary Bushaw

SLU 1910

Richardson Hall

SLU's first building - built 1856

 St. Lawrence University & Universalist Theological School

Richardson was refurbished in 1906 through the benefaction of Mrs. Mary A Richardson of Worcester Mass and given the name Richarson.  It was again moderinzed in 1962.  (info from a Plaindealer article)

Richardson Hall

William Payson Richardson was Dean of the Brooklyn Law School affiliated with SLU from 1903 until the mid 1940s: click here to read more:

http://www.brooklaw.edu/about/history/

Richardson

Richardson

Herring Cole Reading Room & Library

Named for Silas Herring  & Edward H Cole. In 1896 , Silas Herring of New York City financed the building of Herring Library.  In 1899 Edward H Cole of New York city financed the renovation of Herring and the addition of Cole Reading Room.  It was restored by S&R Foundation and Sol Feinstone Family of Washington Crossing, Pa. (info from the Plaindealer)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1869

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1942

Ogdensburg Advance 1902

Cole Reading Room 1905

Richardson, Fisher, Library

1900

1900

1900

1900

1905

SLU 1906

SLU

SLU 1915

SLU

Omega Gamma Sigma House

New Men's Dorm

Men's Dorm - Sykes

President Sykes Residence 1920s

http://www.stlawu.edu/150/buildingnames.htm

Presidents Residence SLU

Men's Dorm & Clock Tower 1930s

SLU Clock Tower

Kappa Kappa Gamma Lodge

KKG Lodge

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Sept 16, 1941

Kappa Kappa Gamma

According to "Canton - The Town Friendliness Built" by Judith Liscum & Students, this was one of the Richard Harison Mansions built in Canton around 1820

Click here to read more about Richard Harison First US Attorney NY:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/officehistory.html

and

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4078865.html

Gunnison Memorial Chapel 1920s 

Named for Almon Gunnison - SLU President 1868-1913 - click here to read more: http://web.stlawu.edu/magazine/gunnison.html

Potsdam Herald 1899

Gunnison Chapel Interior

Gunnison Memorial Chapel

Gunnison Chapel - Early 1960s

(Thank you Hulit Pressley Taylor '61 for the Postcard!)

Men's Dorm - Early 1960s

(Thank you Hulit Pressley Taylor '61 for the post card!)

Men's Dorm 1950s

Men's Dorms

Fisher Hall

According to "Images of America -Canton" by Linda Casserly, Julie Sherman Grayson, Judith Liscum", Dr. Ebenezer Fisher was the head of the Theological School.  Built in 1881 - burned in 1951. In 1955 Atwood Hall was built for the Seminary.

From a March 26, 1921 Plaindealer article "Stillman Foote's Marble Industry" "..The marble industry in Canton for many years lay dormant, to be revived again in the late seventies. In later years a fine grade of building marble was discovered in the town a few miles south of this village which was eventually quarried quite extensively  in what was known as the Stevens quarry ...owned and operated by E.E. Stevens...the mill was right at the quarry and was steam operated.....among buildings was Fisher Memorial Hall"

Rev. Ebenezer Fisher was at the Theology School from  1858 - 1879 (before this building existed) when he died in his lecture room on Feb 21, 1879.  Click here to read more: http://history.rays-place.com/ny/canton-4-ny.htm

1860 Canton Census pg 0198 lists Rev. E Fisher Prof Theology, 44 from Maine, Amy W 36 from Maine, Ebenezer E, 16 at college born in Mass, Amy L 10 born Mass, Ellen 5 born Mass, Mary McDonald 20, Domestic, from Canada.

1870 Canton Census lists Ebenezer Fisher, Professor of Theology, 55 yrs old, born in Maine, wife Amy WS Fisher, 47 yrs old, b Maine, Children Annett S Fisher, 20 yrs old. born in Massachusetts.

Fisher Hall 1940s

Fisher Hall - built 1881 destroyed by fire 1951

St Lawrence Plaindealer Dec 13, 1951

Atwood Hall - 1950s

(built in 1955 for the seminary school after Fisher Hall burned in 1951)

I've found two Atwoods in SLU's history- both former Deans:

John Murray Atwood : http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/stlawrence.html

Rev. Isaac Morgan Atwood - Rootsweb link:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:433449&id=I0160

Tri Delta 1912

Built for Theodore Caldwell around 1850 on property purchased from David Judson - according to "Canton - The Town Friendliness Built" by Judith Liscum & Students, Caldwell, Levi Storrs, Nathan Fletcher & Barzillai Hodskins later worked to establish SLU)

Rootsweb link for Theodore Caldwell:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dubam&id=I4980

1870 Canton Census: Theodore Caldwell 68 yrs old, retired merchant from Mass, wife Harriett 63, from Vt., children Theodore Jr., 21, Grocer Merchant and Sarah F 21

1850 Canton Census: Theodore Caldwell 48 Merchant, born mass, wife Harriett 44, Charles 6, Theodore 2, Moody Ames 21, Maria Billings 20 - lives next to Ebenezer Minor -

Delta Delta Delta

Delta

Delta of Delta Delta Delta

Hepburn Chemistry Building

Dean Eaton

Dean Eaton

http://www.stlawu.edu/150/buildingnames.htm

Named for Emily L. Eaton Hepburn 1887 SLU graduate (possibly SLU's first great MRS. degree!) - from Montpelier Vt. - 2nd wife of Alonzo Barton Hepburn  and Jennie & Cora Dean from Gouverneur

Hepburn, Alonzo Barton, 1846–1922, American legislator and banker, b. Colton, St. Lawrence co., N.Y. He served (1875–80) in the New York state legislature and became chairman of the legislative committee to investigate railroad rate discrimination. The published proceedings of this committee—popularly called the Hepburn Report—strongly influenced subsequent corrective legislation and helped bring about the adoption (1887) of the federal Interstate Commerce Act. Later Hepburn devoted himself to banking (Chase Manhattan Bank) and to government fiscal administration.  Read more about him by clicking here:  http://www.electricscotland.com/history/descendants/chap68.htm

1880 Montpelier Census:

1880 Gouverneur Census:

Dean Eaton

Dean Eaton

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 9, 1939

Gouverneur Press 1926

Gouverneur Press 1946

Dean Eaton

New Women's Dorms

Alpha Tau Omega - 1908

 (Harison Mansion on Judson Street)

St. Lawrence Plaindealer January 27, 1904

Alpha Tau Omega 1909

(Once home of Judge Leslie Wead Russell(1840—1903))

So who was Leslie Wead Russell?

Alpha Tau Omega 1912

Alpha Tau Omega

From Canton Commercial Advertiser 1927

From Canton Commercial Advertiser 1927

The War Years - Naval Cadets at SLU

St. Lawrence Plaindealer June 19, 1906

Mary Herrick - one of SLU's first women graduates

SS ST LAWRENCE VICTORY WW II Victory Ship - merchant cargo ship was built by the Permanente Metal Corp. at Richmond, CA. and launched on March 7, 1945. The ship was named for St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York and is part of a  group of 150 Victory Ships that were named for US Colleges and Universities.

SLU Looking East from Campus

 Possibly the Avenue of the Elms in the center of the picture right after they were planted?

Avenue of the Elms

Barry T. Leithead Field House

Potsdam Courier Freeman 1974