Clinton Liberal Institute
The Clinton Liberal Institute was a coeducational preparatory school. The Universalist Church started it in Clinton, New York in 1831.[1] The school moved to Fort Plain, New York in 1878,[2][1] and it stayed there until it was destroyed in a fire in 1900.[3] Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross,[4] and Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University went to the Clinton Liberal Institute.[5]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joseph Henry Allen, Richard Eddy, History of Universalism, p. 486-490.
- ↑ "The Clinton Liberal Institute :: Fort Plain Free Library". nyheritage.nnyln.net. Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
- ↑ Clinton Lee Scott, The Universalist Church of America: A Short History (1957), p. 76.
- ↑ Bacon-Foster, Corra (1918). "Clara Barton, Humanitarian". Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 21: 278–356. JSTOR 40067108.
- ↑ Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. XVII. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1935. p. 501.
