Career
In 1871, became principal of what had been planned four years before as Wadsworth Normal and Training School, and officially opened it in Geneseo, New York as the Geneseo Normal and Training School. was on the faculty of what is today the State University of New York at Brockport before going to Geneseo. He and the other elders of the two churches became the 12 elders of the united church, and in September he was elected as one of its 6 trustees, and also became one of three superintendents of its Sunday school. He continued as an elder and trustee at least into 1887.
In 1889 took the presidency of New York State Normal School at Albany, overseeing development of its mission, as reflected in its name changes to New York State Normal College in 1890, and to New York State College for Teachers in 1914.
He died later that year. The institution"s early American practice-teaching school was named The School after him, and after the school"s closing in 1977, the building has continued, in its new roles, to be called Hall.
