Administrative Records of Albany College (Oregon) President, Elbert Neal Condit 1879-1894

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Administrative Records of Albany College (Oregon) President, Elbert Neal Condit 1879-1894

This collection is made up of materials relating to the administration of Albany College (Oregon) during the administration of President Elbert Neal Condit, who served as president from 1879-1885 and from 1887-1894.

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Condit, Elbert Neal

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Elbert Neal Condit was born in Stillwater, New Jersey on May 2, 1846. He studied theology at Princeton University, and in 1877 the Home Missionary Board of the Presbyterian Church sent him to the Pacific Northwest. Condit worked at churches in Walla Walla, Washington; Astoria, Oregon; Pleasant Grove, Oregon; and Turner, Oregon. In 1879 Condit was hired as the President of Albany, College. Condit worked in this capacity from 1879-1885, and from 1887-1894. During his first year at Alb...

Albany College (Albany, Or.)

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The first literary society at Albany College was a men's organization called Sigma Phi organized in the fall of 1867. Sigma Phi had the responsibility of managing the College's library, which was donated to the College by the city of Albany's Library and Literary Institute. In 1880 Sigma Phi re-organized under the new name, Albany College Literary Society. For a short time in the early 1880s, the Albany College Literary Society merged with Albany's women's literary society, the Erodelphians. The...