Eastman Business College
The Eastman Business College was a business school located in Poughkeepsie, New York.
History
The college was founded in 1859 by Harvey G. Eastman, and was for a time one of the largest commercial schools in the United States.
Rather than merely being a theoretical school, students gained practical experience in the business arts of the time by actually performing the tasks that would be expected of them in their working careers, a novel approach at the time.
The 1898 catalog of the Eastman Business College and its affiliated school, the New York Business Institute, stated that "These schools do not receive students of the Negro Race".
In 1905 S. V. Daniels, a 17-year-old from St. Thomas, withdrew from the main college following the petition of 160 southern students alleging that he was partially of African descent, and transferred to the Harlem branch.
The college closed on June 10, 1931.
Notable alumni
- Dwight L. Burgess, Wisconsin politician
- Ernest Cady, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut[1]
- Porter Dale, United States Senator from Vermont
- Nelson W. Fisk, Vermont businessman and Lieutenant Governor
- Mark C. Honeywell, U.S. Electronics Industrialist; Founder, President and CEO of Honeywell International
- Lorenzo D. Lewelling, 12th Governor of Kansas[2]
- S. S. Kresge, retail businessman
- Reuben L. Snowe, Maine politician
- Calvert Spensley, Wisconsin politician
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley, Governor of Virginia
- Lee Emmett Thomas, Louisiana politician[3]
- Frank B. Weeks, Governor of Connecticut
- Timothy Woodruff, United States Congressman and Lieutenant Governor of New York.
- W.P.G. Harding, Governor (Chairman) U.S. Federal Reserve Board 1916-1922
References
Further reading
- "Daniels Leaves College", Washington Post, April 18, 1905
External links
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