Betts Academy
Betts Academy was a well-known private academy in Stamford, Connecticut that operated from 1838 to 1908.
Betts Academy in Stamford with a baseball game depicted
History
The school was founded in 1838 in North Stamford by James Betts, a Yale graduate and Congregational Church deacon originally from Wilton, Connecticut.[1] Later his son, William J. Betts, became principal of the school, and the Academy was relocated to Strawberry Hill overlooking Long Island Sound.[2][1][3]
Notable alumni
- Henry Osborne Havemeyer, businessman
- Theodore Havemeyer, businessman, co-founder of United States Golf Association and U.S. Open
- Eugene O'Neill, Playwright[3]
References
- Edward T. W. Gillespie (1892). Picturesque Stamford: A Souvenir of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of Stamford. Gillespie Bros. p. 192.
- Huntington, Elijah Baldwin (1868). History of Stamford, Connecticut: From Its Settlement in 1641, to the Present Time, Including Darien, which was One of Its Parishes Until 1820. Huntington, Elijah Baldwin. p. 350.
- "Education Spelled Freedom". The Stamford Historical Society.
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