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Title: Outline history of Utica and vicinity
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, Elizabeth Gilman New Century Club, Utica, N.Y Butcher, Ida J Goodale, Frances Abigail Rockwell
Subjects: Utica (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: Utica, N.Y. : L. C. Childs and son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^^ ^^^i^^^- ■^ er s pamphlet, ernment and the Chiefs of the Six Nations, was a guest of •a Few straythe White family in their first log house. Forty years p.^^J^^ *later he recalled their hospitality, and visited the widow ofthe honored pioneer. Thomas Moore lingered long in our valley in the early ° . ° • • Lines Writ- years of the century. His reference to the mighty Mo-ten at thehawk recalls the time when the volume of water in the*^°^°^^°*^-river was much greater than at present. The visit of the Magyar Patriot, Louis Kossuth, in theinterest of his countrys freedom, is vividly remembered, 96 OUTLINE HISTORY OF UTICA AND VICINITY, (See II.), and the presence of other public men is recordedunder the appropriate dates. We are glad also to recall that Clara Barton was oncea student at Clinton. Daniel Webster, Washington Irving, Joseph Bona-parte, and Charles Dickens, are to be numbered amongthe distinguished visitors by whose presence our history isenriched and endeared.
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UTICA FREE ACADEMY. Saiiirflay (ilube XII.EDUCATION. IN a summary of the schools of Oneida County, the pointchiefly to be dwelt upon will be the gradual adoptionand development of the Public School system. The sys-tem enjoys the sanction of the State of New York, andpartial financial support from the State Treasury. At the first meeting of the State Legislature, after theadoption of the Constitution of 1787, (George Clinton beingGovernor), an act was passed incorporating the Regentsof the University in accordance with the scheme devisedby Alexander Hamilton, and placing them in generalcharge of the colleges and academies of the State. TheRegents, in their annual report for 1793, called the atten-tion of the Legislature to advantages which would accrueby the establishment, in various parts of the State, of schoolsfor the instruction of children in the lower branches ofeducation. At the opening of the session of 1795, Governor Clintoninitiated the great movement for a Common School sys-

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