SLU History |
St. Lawrence University
is chartered as a Universalist Theological School with a separate College
of Letters and Science. |
 The first building on campus, College Hall, now known as
Richardson Hall, opens. |
Theological School has its first graduating
class. |
Olympia Brown is the
first woman graduate of the Theology School. She is later the first woman
in the U.S. to be ordained. |
World
History
French explorer Jacques Cartier names the Gulf
of St. Lawrence. The gulf/river becomes the source of the University’s
name in 1856.
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U.S voters elect Pennsylvania Democrat James Buchanan, 65, president. |
Dred Scott decision announced by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B.
Taney on March 6 enrages abolitionists and encourages slave owners. |
American Civil War begins April 12 |
President Lincoln dedicates a national
cemetery at Gettysburg November 19, saying that “government of
the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from
the earth.”
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