Career
Overall, York founded six schools. He organized Union Institute Academy in 1838 and met with instant success, having to build two new buildings within a year-and-a-half. In fact, he recorded in his diary a statement saying he considered his years at Union Institute to be "truly onerous." York, however, had found his life"s work at Union Institute and though completely blind by age forty-eight, he lived to be eighty-six and founded half-a-dozen schools, lectured over 8,000 times, and taught more than 15,000 pupils.