Background
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 farm near a Native American settlement.
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He then attended the Norwalk Seminary, a Methodist school, and began teaching school before entering college in Cleveland.
Career
Bryant"s first education was during the winters in a log school house, and while at home he worked on the family farm during the rest of the year. The Bryants had three children. The trio later purchased the school from the owner, Ezekiel G. Folsom, who founded his school in 1848.
Bryant & Stratton College was officially organized in 1854 to provide practical workplace education, and was formerly known as Bryant and Stratton Business Institute.
In addition to purchasing the Cleveland school, Bryant and Stratton established a number of business schools that operated under the name of Bryant & Stratton & Company"s chain of International Commercial Colleges in most major United States cities. By 1864 as many as 50 schools existed.
After the death of Mr. Stratton in 1867, the brothers sold most of the schools except the ones in Chicago and Buffalo.
Bryant died in 1892.
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Religion
Protestant