Hi! I have a book in front of me titled "Cradle of the Middle Class, The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865" by Mary P. Ryan. I will quote from page 170: "By midcentury, however, the Oneida Institute had sold out to a more conventional boarding school called the Whitestown Seminary. This secondary school was a way station for youth, neatly tucked under the extended eaves of the parental roof. Parents, not students, most often arranged and financed secondary education midcentury. The staff of the Whitestown Seminary instructed mothers and fathers to 'state very frankly and fully your wishes in reference to the studies, the intellectual and moral training of children, so that the teachers may feel at liberty to give you all that information which an intelligent and considerate parent desires when entrusting a son or daughter to the authority of strangers.'" ( I will skip a little.) -"The classical programs at Whitestown Seminary and the Utica Free Academy provided little vocational education per se, and aspiring professionals were obliged to go on to college and postgraduat training in law, medicine, or the ministry" Names I am searching in Oneida County: WHEELER, BRYAN, UPSON, SPENCER, JOHNSON, PRESTON, Kathy Johnson----Original Message----- From: chris benson <makettle@dreamscape.com> To: NYONEIDA-L@rootsweb.com <NYONEIDA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:22 AM Subject: [NYONEIDA-L] Oneida Seminary >I have found reference to an Oneida Academy later being called the Oneida Institute >located in Whitesboro, for the preparation of poor young men in the ministry and was >started by George Washington Gale around the early 1800's. >This was later called the Whitestown Seminary. This was a church-backed school, >established by the Presbyterians in 1827. The Free- will Baptists took over in the mid >1840's, closing in the 1880's. >Chris > > >> >> >> Can anyone tell me where the Oneida Seminary was located (1860s), what >> kind of school it was, does it still exist, are there any >> student/faculty records remaining??? >> Thanks, >> Ken > >______________________________