John Collins Bryant (1821–1901) was an American physician, author, and the co-founder and namesake of

Bryant & Stratton College Bryant & Stratton College (BSC) is a private for-profit college with campuses in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as an online campus. Founded in 1854, the college offers associate degree programs at all campuses and bachelor's ...

and

Bryant University Bryant University is a private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island. It has two colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business, and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. History Butler Exc ...

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. Bryant was born on December 21, 1821 in

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to John Bryant, a farmer, and Pamela (Collins) Bryant. Bryant immigrated to Ohio from England with his family in 1829, and his father acquired a farm in Ohio. During the winters Bryant attended the local public schools in Ohio and then

Norwalk Seminary Norwalk Seminary was a private, Methodist school in Norwalk, Ohio. Opening in 1838 with Edward Thomson as principal, by 1842 it had an attendance of nearly four hundred. Nonetheless, the school was unsuccessful financially, and it was forced to ...

, a

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school, and then he graduated from

Cleveland Medical College Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Res ...

in 1846 before practicing medicine in

Amherst, Ohio Amherst () is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located west of Cleveland. The population was 12,681 at the 2020 census. History The original village, which eventually became known as Amherst, was established/founded by pione ...

. Bryant married Hannah M. Clarke on May 21, 1851 and they had three children. Along with his brother,

Henry Beadman Bryant Henry Beadman Bryant (1824–1892) was an author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Henry B. Bryant was born in Gloucestershire, England on April 5, 1824 and was the younge ...

, and his brother-in-law,

Henry Dwight Stratton Henry Dwight Stratton (1824–1867) was an author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College. Henry Dwight Stratton was born on August 24, 1824, in Amherst, Ohio, and attended the public schools in Amherst and then attended Oberlin C ...

, Bryant graduated from Folsom Business College in Cleveland, Ohio. The trio later purchased the school from the owner, Ezekiel G. Folsom, who founded his school in 1848. Bryant & Stratton College was officially organized in 1854 to provide practical workplace education, and was formerly known as Bryant and Stratton Business Institute. In addition to purchasing the Cleveland school, Bryant and Stratton established a number of business schools that operated under the name of Bryant & Stratton & Co's chain of International Commercial Colleges in most major US cities. By 1864 as many as 50 schools existed. John C. Bryant served as president of the Buffalo Bryant and Stratton Business College from 1860 until he died in 1901. After Henry Bryant's death, John sold all of his interest in the schools, but the one in Buffalo. He died on November 6, 1901 in Buffalo, New York.John F. Ohles, ''Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Volume 1'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1978), pg. 198

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