FREDERICK A.P. BARNARD - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 17660
Price: $90.00
FREDRICK A. P. BARNARD
Signing as President of Columbia College
Signature: "F. A. P. Barnard", 4½x5. Signed on letterhead of
the Resident's Room, Columbia College, New York. Polymath scholar and
educator Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard taught and wrote about
classical and English literature, mathematics, physics, chemistry and
cartography. He taught at the University of Alabama and the University of
Mississippi, before going north when the southern states seceded. He was
President of Columbia College, now Columbia University, from 1864 until shortly
before his death, the longest tenure in the office up to that time. He
increased enrollment from 150 to over 1,000, and sought to open the College's
doors to women. Barnard College was established and named in his honor the year
after his death. Mailing fold through center. Toned. Ink transference on page.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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