Edward Austin Sheldon

Edward Austin Sheldon
1st President of State University of New York at Oswego
In office 1861–1897
Succeeded by	I. B. Poucher
Personal details
Born	(1823-10-04)October 4, 1823 Perry Center, New York
Died	August 26, 1897(1897-08-26) (aged 73) Oswego, New York
Spouse	Frances Stiles Sheldon
Children	Mary Sheldon Barnes
Residence	Oswego, New York
Alma mater	Hamilton College
Profession	Educator
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Edward Austin Sheldon (October 4, 1823 – August 26, 1897) was an American educator, and the founding president of the State University of New York at Oswego (then Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School). He also served as superintendent of schools for the cities of Syracuse, New York and Oswego, New York. Sheldon introduced the principles and teachings of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi into American education through the Oswego Movement. A statute of Sheldon instructing a child was dedicated at the New York State Capitol in January 1900 during a ceremony attended by Governor Theodore Roosevelt and United States Commissioner of Education William Torey Harris. It remained there until 1922 and was later installed on Oswego's campus. His daughter was educator Mary Sheldon Barnes.

External links

• New Studies in Education: The Oswego Movement in American Education, by Ned H. Dearborn, 1925
• Oswego: Fountainhead of Teacher Education; A Century in the Sheldon Tradition, Dorothy Rogers, 1961
• The Autobiography of Edward Austin Sheldon, ed. Mary Sheldon Barnes, 1911