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Rochester Free Academy
The Rochester Free Academy is a former secondary school and historic building (1872–1873) in Rochester, New York. It is part of the City Hall Historic District. History The Free Academy was founded by the Board of Education in 1853 and opened in 1857. Initially called "the High School," it was incorporated as the Rochester Free Academy in 1862. In 1871, the adjacent lot was purchased, and the surviving brick structure replaced the original school building. Notable alumni *Isaac Adler, mayor of Rochester * Lucy Elmina Anthony, leader in the American woman's suffrage movement * Benjamin Cunningham, New York state court judge *Edward Joseph Hanna Edward Joseph Hanna (July 21, 1860 – July 10, 1944) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of San Francisco from 1915 to 1935. Early life and education Edward Hanna was born in Rochester, New York, to ..., prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop of San Francisco * Adolph J. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Hall Historic District (Rochester, New York)
City Hall Historic District is a national Historic district (United States), historic district located at Rochester, New York, Rochester in Monroe County, New York. The district consists of four buildings arranged in a 19th-century civic complex. The buildings are the Rochester City Hall (1874–1875), Monroe County Courthouse (1894–1896), Rochester Free Academy (1872–1873), and St. Luke's Episcopal Church (1824). Andrew Jackson Warner designed the City Hall and Free Academy buildings. His son, J. Foster Warner, designed the Monroe County Courthouse. ''See also:'' The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 1974. See also * National Register of Historic Places listings in Rochester, New York References Historic districts in Rochester, New York Gothic Revival architecture in New York (state) Renaissance Revival architecture in New York (state) Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Adler (politician)
Isaac Adler (May 10, 1868 – June 24, 1941) was an American attorney and politician. He was the mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1930 to 1932. Early life and family He was born on May 10, 1868, in Medina, New York, to Levi Adler (October 24, 1834 – March 3, 1907) and Theresa Wile (November 22, 1841 – March 8, 1905). He attended the Rochester Free Academy. He earned an A.B. at Harvard College and an LL.B. at Harvard Law School. Together with members of his extended family, Adler owned Adler-Rochester, a clothing firm. He married Cora Barnet and they had four children together, all girls. One died in infancy and three married and had children of their own. The last of their four children died at the age of one year. Career Adler was of counsel to the Rochester Board of Education from 1906 to 1913, and was, at times, an attorney of counsel to the board. An advocate of the city manager form of government, he was a member of the Rochester City Council from 1927 to 1933, Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Elmina Anthony
Lucy Elmina Anthony (October 24, 1859July 4, 1944) was an internationally known leader in the American woman's suffrage movement. She was the niece of American social reformer and women's rights activist, Susan B. Anthony, and longtime companion of women's suffrage leader, Anna Howard Shaw. She served as a secretary to both women, as well as on the committee on local arrangements for the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) Early life Lucy Elmina Anthony was born on October 24, 1859, in Fort Scott, Kansas. She was the oldest child of Jacob Merritt Anthony (1834–1900), a sewing machine salesman, and Mary Almina Luther (1839–1915). Her paternal aunt was Susan B. Anthony, a prominent suffragist. Anthony's father served in the American Civil War, but little else is known about her early life. She moved from Kansas to Rochester, New York, in 1880 to attend the Rochester Free Academy, which she graduated from in 1883. While in New York, she lived with her aunts, Susan B. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Cunningham
Benjamin B. Cunningham (1874 – January 2, 1946),Death Takes Cunningham, Ex-Justice, 71 , ''Rochester Democrat and Chronicle'' (January 3, 1946), p. 13, 17. was a long-serving New York state court judge who "in a 47-year public career initiated, fought for or passed upon legal questions of lasting importance to official Rochester". Born in , Cunningham graduated from the in 1892, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Joseph Hanna
Edward Joseph Hanna (July 21, 1860 – July 10, 1944) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of San Francisco from 1915 to 1935. Early life and education Edward Hanna was born in Rochester, New York, to Edward and Anne (née Clark) Hanna, who were Irish immigrants. The eldest of six children, he had two brothers and three sisters, one of whom died in infancy. In 1867, at age seven, he began his education at Public School No. 2 in his native city. The following year, he was sent to St. Patrick's School. He entered Rochester Free Academy in 1875, and graduated as valedictorian in 1879. He there befriended his classmate, Walter Rauschenbusch, a future Baptist theologian and proponent of the Social Gospel. He and Rauschenbusch were two of the nineteen founding brothers of Pi Phi Fraternity at the academy in 1878. At the commencement ceremony, he delivered a well-received oration on Irish political leader Daniel O'Connell. Deciding to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph J
Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in various Central European and East European countries with non-Germanic languages, such as Lithuanian Adolfas and Latvian Ādolfs. Adolphus can also appear as a surname, as in John Adolphus, the English historian. The female forms Adolphine and Adolpha are far more rare than the male names. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', meaning "noble" (or '' had(u)''-, meaning "battle, combat"), and ''wolf''. The name is cognate to the Anglo-Saxon name '' Æthelwulf'' (also Eadulf or Eadwulf). The name can also be derived from the ancient Germanic elements "Wald" meaning "power", "brightness" and wolf (Waldwulf). Due to negative associations with Adolf Hitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
