Background
Norton, Charles Phelps was born on May 15, 1858 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Charles Davis and Mary Jeanette (Phelps) Norton.
Norton, Charles Phelps was born on May 15, 1858 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Charles Davis and Mary Jeanette (Phelps) Norton.
Graduate departments
Practiced in Buffalo, since 1885. Organized Buffalo Law School, 1887. Registrar, lecturer, instructor and professor elementary law, contracts, practice, and bills and notes, for 21 years.
Elected v. chancellor University of Buffalo, 1905, chancellor, 1909-1920, both offices unsalaried.
Created under-graduate departments, uniting them with local professional schools and organizing a municipal university to continue work of public schools which, in 1920, was endowed by popular subscription.
