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Rare early view of the University of Wooster, Ohio (currently the College of Wooster), a Presbyternian University established in 1867.
This is almost certainly the earliest view of the University, which was lithographed by the Chicago Lithographing Company, with O.S. Kinney, A Chicago Architect, the creator and publisher.
College of Wooster
Founded as The University of Wooster in 1866 by Presbyterians, the institution opened its doors in 1870 with a faculty of five and a student body of thirty men and four women. Wealthy Wooster citizen Ephraim Quinby donated the first 22 acres, a large oak grove situated on a hilltop overlooking the town. After being founded with the intent to make Wooster open to everyone, the university's first Ph.D. was granted to a woman, Annie B. Irish, in 1882. The first black student, Clarence Allen, began his studies later in the same decade.
It is rumored that when the college was founded, it was gifted a mummy and the head of Nat Turner. While the mummy is still located on campus, at the basement of the art center, the head of Nat Turner was lost in Old Main after a fire broke out.
Rarity
No copies in OCLC. We locate onlye a single example at the Library of Congress.
In 1850, Ozias Kinney was living in Ashland, Ohio, listing his occupation as Master Builder. He lived in Cleveland for a brief time in the mid-1850's. He designed the Chamberlain Block that still stands in the Warehouse District. Prior to moving to Chicago, he was known to have planned several public buildings in southern Illinois, northern Indiana, and a number of Court houses in the Western Reserve section of Ohio.
The 1863 Chicago City Directory lists him living on Michigan Avenue near 21st Street. Mr. Kinney opened an office in Chicago in 1865 shortly after the close of the Civil War.
In his Chicago, office Mr. Kinney employed young Dankmar Alder as draftsman (later superintendent of construction), while his own son, A. J. Kinney was a member of the offices, and these two, following Mr. Kinney's death, completed the unfinished work in the office.
Dankmar Alder, a German-born American architect and civil engineer is best known for his ten-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894–1972); and the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri.
![(Ohio Western Reserve) [1825 Connecticut Western Reserve Land Agreement, between Joshua Stow and Abijah S. Barnum, with Manuscript Plat Map]](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/82629.jpg)
