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Bryant & Stratton College (informally Bryant & Stratton or simply BSC) is a private college with campuses in New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as an online education division. [3] Founded in 1854, the college offers associate degree and bachelor's degree programs. [4] The college is approved by the New York State Board of Regents ...
Bryant University was founded in 1863 as a branch of a national school which originally taught bookkeeping and methods of business communication and was named after founders, John Collins Bryant and Henry Beadman Bryant. [5] This separate chain of schools is currently called Bryant & Stratton College. In 1878 the Providence branch of Bryant ...
John Collins Bryant. John Collins Bryant (1821–1901) was an American physician, author, and the co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island . Bryant was born on December 21, 1821, in Ebley in Gloucestershire, England, to John Bryant, a farmer, and Pamela (Collins) Bryant.
In 1872 Stowell became a faculty member at Bryant, which was then located in Providence, and in 1878 he became principal and purchased the school from the Bryant and Stratton families. Stowell served as president until his death 1916 at which point Bryant College completed its merger with Henry Jacobs' Rhode Island Commercial School.
Henry Dwight Stratton. Henry Dwight Stratton (1824–1867) was an author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College . Henry Dwight Stratton was born on August 24, 1824, in Amherst, Ohio, and attended the public schools in Amherst and then attended Oberlin College. He married Parmella Bryant in 1854 in Cleveland in a double wedding ...
Henry Beadman Bryant (1824–1892) was an author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island . Henry B. Bryant was born in Gloucestershire, England on April 5, 1824 and was the youngest son of six children. His father, John Bryant, was a farmer who brought the family to Ohio to a ...
The school was founded as Trenton Business College on October 1, 1865, by Henry Beadman Bryant and Henry D. Stratton, operators of the Bryant and Stratton chain of private business schools. The school was located in Temperance Hall at the corner of South Broad and Front Streets in Trenton, New Jersey .
Bryant and Stratton Business College. Profession. Businessman. Oliver Cicero Wiley (January 30, 1851 – October 18, 1917) was an American businessman, academic administrator, and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1908 to 1908. He was the brother of Ariosto Appling Wiley, whom Oliver succeeded in office.