Cazenovia Seminary
Cazenovia Seminary was an academic (not exclusively theological) seminary (like an early high school) of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was located in Cazenovia, New York, United States. It was founded in 1825, at the instigation of George Peck and several other prominent clergymen in the area. In 1839, the seminary initiated a three year course, as it was called, which was focused at the education of females. The seminary also had a missionary course, and in 1843 Sophronia Farrington (class of 1828) went out as the first female missionary to Africa, under the auspices of the Young Men's Missionary Society of Boston. This was the earliest foreign mission established by the Methodist Episcopal Church.[1]
The seminary underwent a number of reorganizations over the years and is now a co-educational four year institution called Cazenovia College.
Notable alumni
- Wallace B. Douglas - Minnesota lawyer, judge, and state representative
- Joseph B. Hamilton - Wisconsin lawyer, judge, and state senator
- Lewis Hartsough - Methodist minister and gospel song writer/composer
- Joseph E. Irish - Wisconsin clergyman and state senator
- Jimmy Van Heusen - American songwriter
- William C. McDonald (governor) - United States Governor for New Mexico.[2]
- John Philip Newman - Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; previously three times the Chaplain of the United States Senate
- John W. North- pioneer statesman & founder of Riverside, California
- Daniel D. Pratt - United States Senator from Indiana
- James Wilson Seaton - American lawyer and legislator
- David F. Wilber - United States Representative from New York
References
- ↑ First Fifty years of Cazenovia Seminary, 1825-1875: The Missionary Cohort. Accessed 26 August 2009.
- ↑ "McDonald, William Calhoun". New Mexico State Record Center and Archives. Retrieved 2012-07-14.
Coordinates: 42°55′55.3″N 75°51′13.7″W / 42.932028°N 75.853806°W