{"id":794,"date":"2010-04-06T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2010-04-06T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T12:00:49","slug":"storrs-agricultural-school-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/04\/06\/storrs-agricultural-school-established\/","title":{"rendered":"Storrs Agricultural School Established"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_797\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/act_1881-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-797\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-797 \" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/act_1881-12.jpg?w=203\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/act_1881-12.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/act_1881-12-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Act establishing Storrs Agricultural School, 1881 <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the offer of land and funds from the Storrs brothers, the General Assembly officially established the state agricultural school in Storrs, Connecticut on April 6, 1881.\u00a0 The following fall, the buildings were prepared and 12 boys enrolled for classes.\u00a0 The inaugural class included: Frederick B. Brown (Gilead), Frank D. Case (Barkhamste), Charles H. Elkins (Brooklyn, NY), Charles S. Foster (Bristol), John M. Gelston (East Haddam), Samuel B. Harvey (Mansfield), Henry R. Hoisington (Coventry), Burke Hough (Weatogue), Arthur S. Hubbard (Glastonbury), Andrew K. Thompson (West Cornwall) and F. M. Winton (Bristol).\u00a0 The formal public opening of the school was October 7, 1881.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_802\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/act_1881-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-802\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/act_1881-2.jpg?w=195\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Act Establishing Storrs Agricultural School (p.2), 1881<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the offer of land and funds from the Storrs brothers, the General Assembly officially established the state agricultural school in Storrs, Connecticut on April 6, 1881.\u00a0 The following fall, the buildings were prepared and 12 boys enrolled for classes.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/04\/06\/storrs-agricultural-school-established\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-cO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}