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Charles B. Sumner
Charles Burt Sumner (August 17, 1837July 11, 1927) was a minister in the Congregational church and a founding trustee of Pomona College who served as its de facto first president. Life and career Sumner was born on August 17, 1837, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, to George and Julia Sumner. He went to Southbridge Academy and Williston Seminary, and then attended Yale University, graduating in 1862. During the United States Civil War, Civil War, he fought for the Union (American Civil War), Union for nine months as a sergeant in the 45th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. He later graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary, and held pastorates in Monson, Massachusetts (at Monson Academy), West Somerville, Massachusetts, Tucson, Arizona, Pomona, California, and Claremont, California. In 1888, he left the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Pomona to become Pomona College's "financial agent with supervisory authority", a position in which he assumed the duties of a college preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions. Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that approximately students. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its campus is in a residential community east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country. It has a $ endowment , making it the seventh-wealthiest college or university in the U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
