Albion College Principals & Presidents
 CLARK
TITUS HINMAN, second principal of the Albion Wesleyan Seminary and
founder and first president of the Northwestern University at Evanston,
Illinois, was born in Kortwright, Delaware County, N.Y., August 3, 1817.
He was raised on the farm and received a rural school education. At an
early age he attended the Wesleyan University and received his degree in
1839. Upon graduation he engaged in teaching at the Newbury Seminary,
Newbury, Vermont. In 1844 he became principal of that institution and
spent a great deal of time in building up its course of study in the two
years he was at the head.
In 1846 he received an offer of a similar position in the Albion
Wesleyan Seminary and immediately accepted it. For seven years he acted
as principal of this institution and by his efforts put the institution
in the foremost rank with the schools of the middle west at the time.
In the fall of 1853, Mr. Hinman left Albion for Evanston, Illinois,
where he opened classes a little more than a year before he died.
During his years at Albion, Principal Hinman was instrumental in
changing the name of the institution to the Albion Female Collegiate
Institute and Wesleyan Seminary, and women were received for education.
Those who knew Dr. Hinman well, have pronounced him a man of great
character, inspiring eloquence and magnificent pulpit power. He died at
Troy, N.Y., October 21, 1854, aged 37 years.
From "Clark Titus Hinman 1846-1853," Old Albion 1861-1909 |
