Northrop Family papers 1836-1923

University of Minnesota

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The West Bank Union at the University of Minnesota was established in 1967 to offer services to students. It took until 1980 for the union to have its own space in Willey Hall, including an auditorium and lounge spaces for students. Student services and facilities were established in the newly constructed West Bank Union skyway, which connected Willey and Blegen Halls. From the guide to the West Bank Union papers, circa 1970s-1980s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Arch...

Pillsbury, J. S. (John Sargent), 1827-1901

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John Sargent Pillsbury was born in Sutton, New Hampshire, and came to the village of St. Anthony MN in 1855 to open a hardware business. 15 years later, he began his flour milling enterprise, which became one of the largest in the world. In 1863, Pillsbury began to take an interest in the University of Minnesota, which had been closed by debt. Pillsbury accepted an appointment as a University Regent, and began the first of several successful rescues of the University. He served as a Regent until...

Northrop, Cyrus, 1834-1922

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Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Yale. President of the University of Minnesota 1884-1911. From the description of Cyrus Northrop letter to E. C. Stedman [manuscript], 1875 December 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 176633269 College president, educator, and public official from Connecticut. From the description of Letter of Cyrus Northrop, 1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454743 Cyrus Northrop was the second presiden...

Northrop, Elbridge

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Whitney, Ella

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Yale Law School. Debating Society. Records, 1841-1843.

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Beach, Elizabeth Northrop

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Northrop family.

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Cyrus Northrop, second president of the University of Minnesota (1884-1911), was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut on September 30, 1834. He received a common-school and academic education in his native town, and spent one year in Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massachusetts. In 1852, he entered Yale College and graduated in 1857, having lost one year due to ill health, and received an LL.D. from Yale in 1886. He was married in 1862 to Anna Elizabeth Warren of Stamford...