Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . dist Episcopal clergyman in Ran-dolph, the judge made the following proposition : If the stockholders of theacademy would consent to a change of the name from Randolph AcademyAssociation to Chamberlain Institute, and the citizens would purchase a cer-tain piece of land adjoining the institution comprising about twenty acres andhave it conveyed to Chamberlain Institute, and secure the passage of a law bythe Legislature by which the Erie Annual Conference of the Methodist Epis-copal church should thereafter elect the tru
Historical gazetteer and biographical memorial of Cattaraugus County, . dist Episcopal clergyman in Ran-dolph, the judge made the following proposition : If the stockholders of theacademy would consent to a change of the name from Randolph AcademyAssociation to Chamberlain Institute, and the citizens would purchase a cer-tain piece of land adjoining the institution comprising about twenty acres andhave it conveyed to Chamberlain Institute, and secure the passage of a law bythe Legislature by which the Erie Annual Conference of the Methodist Epis-copal church should thereafter elect the trustees, he would furnish to thetrustees so elected $50,000 to erect a boarding hall for the institution, andwould endow it liberally by his will. The requirements were all compliedwith, and in July, 1866, the conference elected as their first board the follow-ing trustees : Benjamin Chamberlain, A. G. Dow, C. R. Dean, William , H. K. Van Rensselaer, Rev. A. S. Dobbs, E. S. Ingersoll, J. C. Knapp,J. G. Johnson, R. R. Crowley, E. McManus, Rev. G. W. Maltby, and
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