Ladd, Horatio O. (Horatio Oliver), 1839-1932

Rev. Horatio O. Ladd, educator and minister, was born in Hallowell, Maine on August 31, 1839. He was educated at Bowdoin and the Yale Divinity School. In 1879 he was appointed principal of the Santa Fe Academy. After an unsatisfactory relation with the Academy school board, he helped found the University of New Mexico at Santa Fe in 1881. He served as the first and only President of the University. He aided in founding the Ramona Industrial School for Indian Girls of the Southwest. In 1889 he left New Mexico, returning to the east to enter the ministry of the Episcopal Church. He died February 16, 1932 in Brookland, Massachusetts.

From the description of Papers, 1879-1932, (bulk 1881-1887). (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 39118365

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