Coburn Classical Institute

Coburn Classical Institute
Location
Waterville, Maine
Information
Opened 1828

The Coburn Classical Institute was a college preparatory school in Waterville, Maine, which operated from 1828-1970.

Waterville Academy

In its early years, Waterville College (now Colby College) had maintained a Latin school in the college buildings. Around 1828, the college trustees wanted a classical academy to prepare boys for entrance to the college. Land was donated by Hon. Timothy Boutelle, and funds raised by the college president Jeremiah Chaplin, for a small brick building in which the school went into operation in the fall of 1829. The school was under the charge of Henry W. Paine, then a member of the senior class at the college. Regarded as an appendage to the college, no act of incorporation was sought. There were 61 students in the school's first year.[1]

For about two years, 1839 and 1840, Waterville Academy was closed. The school re-opened in 1841, and in 1842 the trustees of Waterville College incorporated the school separately and passed control to a new board of trustees. Girls were admitted to the school beginning in 1845, and in 1865, the school was renamed the Waterville Classical Institute.[1]

Waterville Classical Institute

In 1868, a Bachelor of Letters degree was first awarded to women. Around 1874, Abner Coburn pledged $50,000 to the endowment of the school, on the condition that $50,000 also be raised to support two other institutes proposed by the college (now Colby University). In 1882, Coburn erected a new building for school at an additional expense of $38,000, and the school got its final name — The Coburn Classical Institute.<[2][3]

Coburn Classical Institute

An observatory dome was added to the school in 1889, with an Alvan Clark & Sons equatorial telescope.

Modern

In 1970, the school merged with the Oak Grove School in Vassalboro, Maine, which was renamed the Oak Grove Coburn School - and closed in 1989.

People

Principals

Name Term Began Left/Retired Reference
Henry W. Paine 1829 1830 [4]
Robert W. Wood 1830 1830 [4]
George I. Chace 1830 1831 [4]
Henry Paine 1831 1835 [4]
Charles H. Wheeler 1841 1843 [4]
James H. Hanson 1843 1894 [5]
Franklin W. Johnson 1894 1905 [6]
George Stanley Stevenson 1905 1912 [7]
Drew T. Harthorn 1913 ?? [8]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

  1. 1 2 United States. Bureau of Education (1903). Circular of Information. pp. 207–.
  2. ↑ Board of Trade Journal. 1906. pp. 313–.
  3. ↑ Little Talks #749. Colby College Special Collections. December 31, 1967. accessed at: http://web.colby.edu/specialcollections/2011/01/17/lt749-readonly/
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Education, United States Bureau of (1903-01-01). Circular of Information. p. 201.
  5. ↑ "Read-Only". web.colby.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  6. ↑ Board of Trade Journal. 1906-01-01. p. 313.
  7. ↑ "Boston Evening Transcript - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. p. 11. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  8. ↑ A Handbook of American Private Schools. P.E. Sargent. 1917-01-01. p. 222.


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