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UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

 

 

exhibit title: Our Presidents

 

George E. Pierce
(9/9/1794-5/28/1871)

President, Western Reserve College, 1834-7/1855

President George E. Pierce

Education

Graduated from Yale University, 1816

Graduated from Andover Theological Seminary, 1821

 

 

 


 

University Awards

Western Reserve University named its original men’s residence Pierce Hall to honor Pierce’s service as President of Western Reserve College, 1934.

Western Reserve University named one of the men’s north side residences Pierce House for his “self-sacrifice and devotion, his unyielding honesty, fidelity and untiring perseverance for the College," 1964.


 

Career

Principal, an academy in Fairfield, Connecticut , 1816-1818

Pastor, Congregational Church, Harwinton, Connecticut, 2/1822-1834

Mayor, Village of Hudson, Ohio, 1851-1852


 

University Numbers
  1834/35 1854/55
Enrollment 58 120
Number of faculty 4 14
Tuition $20 $30
     

 

Milestones
 
1837
Daguerre invented the first successful photographic process.

 

1842
The Cleveland Plain Dealer was first published.
The Medical Department of Western Reserve College was established.
1843
 

 

1847
Cleveland’s first telegraph line (to Pittsburgh) was completed.
 
1848
The Communist Manifesto was published.
    Gold was discovered in California.
The Theological Department was suspended, never to resume. 1854  
     

 

Regional Population
  1830 1850
Portage County 16,963  
Summit County   27,485
     

 

Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.

Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.