The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . s appointed June 11,1833. The Rev. Harvey Ball was the first principal, with a salaryof $600 a year, and Reuben Granger, assistant, with $350 a year. TheInstitution lot, 16§ acres, cost $3,500, and the present south buildingwas first occupied Dec. 10, 1834, with the basement unfinished. Thebuilding, completed, cost about $6,000. The Institution was incorpo-rated in 1835, with the word Baptist omitted from its name. Thetrustees were made corporators. The last survivor of these was AlbertDay, of Hartford. The State gave it $7,000
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . s appointed June 11,1833. The Rev. Harvey Ball was the first principal, with a salaryof $600 a year, and Reuben Granger, assistant, with $350 a year. TheInstitution lot, 16§ acres, cost $3,500, and the present south buildingwas first occupied Dec. 10, 1834, with the basement unfinished. Thebuilding, completed, cost about $6,000. The Institution was incorpo-rated in 1835, with the word Baptist omitted from its name. Thetrustees were made corporators. The last survivor of these was AlbertDay, of Hartford. The State gave it $7,000 in 1840. In September, SUFFIELD. 409 1843, the Institution was first opened for the reception of girls. Thefirst ladies building, near the site of the present, was erected and occu-pied in 1845. It was a neat edifice of briclv, seventy-five by thirty-sevenfeet, four stories high, with a tower, and cost .1ti6,000. In the earlymorning of Feb. 29, 1872, it was burned. Measures were immediatelytaken to rebuild, and the present beautiful structure was completed and. ??^./^S
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