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College of New Jersey (Ewing, N.J.)
Portrait of Lillie A. Williams from collection TCNJ003
Williams, Lillie A.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025181657 · Person · 1853-1923

Lillie Arndt Williams was born on September 22, 1853, to Rebecca Lombaert and Griffith Williams, in Lambertville, New Jersey. She attended Lambertville Schools, then enrolled in the New Jersey State Normal School at the age of 16 in 1869. She graduated in 1871, but continued her education through the years with coursework and summer sessions at several schools including Yale, White Mountain Summer School, Clark University, and Chautauqua Institute. She began teaching at the Model School immediately after graduation in 1871 until 1887, when she began teaching at the New Jersey State Normal School, first as a teacher of History and English, then in 1891, she became a teacher of Psychology. She retired on June 30, 1916. Throughout her career and after, she was invited to present papers and lectures at a wide variety of events and education conferences, including at the International Congress of Education at the World’s Fair in Chicago, and she frequently published on topics of education and psychology. She held positions in various organizations such as: Vice President of the Society for Study of Children, President of the Trenton Child Study Association, Director of the New Jersey Council of Mothers, and Director of New Jersey Council of Charities and Corrections. She continued to live in the family home in Lambertville which also was shared with the family of her sister Isadora Williams Scobey (1857-1945), who graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in the class of January 1877, and was a Model School teacher before having children; and her brother-in-law and fellow Normal School teacher Frank H. Scobey (1858-1940) who graduated from the New Jersey State Normal School in the class of 1881. Lillie and the Scobeys moved to Montclair, New Jersey in early 1923. She died soon after, on July 13, 1923, at her summer home in Center Harbor, New Hampshire.
Heussler, Robert
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80024546 · Person · 1924-1984

President of Trenton State College from 1968 to 1970.
Larison, Mary Jane Sergeant, 1837-1917
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84148640 · Person · 1837-1917

Mary Jane Sergeant was born August 24, 1837, to Gershom Craven Sergeant and Charity Ann Howell Sergeant in Raritan Township, near Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. She was in the first class of the New Jersey State Normal School, beginning October 1855, when classes were held in Trenton City Hall before the new school building opened in the next term in 1856. Her first teaching experience was in Lambertville School in 1857-1858, before graduating from the Normal School in February 1859. Afterward, she taught in Copper Hill School in Raritan Township. On March 26, 1863, she married Dr. Cornelius Wilson Larison, also an educator, as well as a physician and proponent of phonetic spelling. He founded the Seminary at Ringoes and the Academy of Science and Arts at Ringoes where Mary taught mathematics and other subjects from the 1870s to early 1900s. They had two children: Mary “Polly” L. (Blackwell), and Benjamin. Mary Jane died on April 17, 1917. Her daughter, Mary Blackwell, donated her diary to then Trenton State College during the Centennial celebrations of 1955, where it was transcribed and portions were published in The Signal newspaper.
Gitenstein, R. Barbara, 1948-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85079400 · Person · 1948-

President of The College of New Jersey from 1999 to 2018.
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
New Jersey State Normal School (Trenton, N.J.)
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85314683 · Corporate body · 1855-1929

Founded in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, The College of New Jersey is the oldest teacher training college in the state and the ninth oldest in the nation. Originally located in downtown Trenton, the college expanded academically and physically, and later moved to suburban Ewing Township in the 1930s.

Over the years, the name of the college has changed to reflect its expanding mission.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    New New Jersey State Normal School,  1855-1908

New Jersey Normal School in Trenton, 1908-1929

New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton, 1929-1937

New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton, 1937-1958

Trenton State College, 1958-1996

The College of New Jersey, 1996-present
Hart, John S. (John Seely), 1810-1877
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86103686 · Person · 1810-1877

John Seely Hart was born on January 28, 1810, to Abigail Stone and Isaac Hart, in Old Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Shortly after, the family moved to Pennsylvania. He graduated from Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey) in 1830, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1834. He taught at Princeton and in other New Jersey and Pennsylvania schools, and was the principal of Central High School in Philadelphia. In 1836, he married Amelia Caroline Morford (1814-1889), and had a son, James Morgan Hart (1839-1916). In 1848, he received a LLD degree from Miami University of Ohio. Along with teaching and school administration, he was the editor of the American Sunday-School Union, publisher of the Sunday School Times, and a prolific writer of school books and essays. In 1862, he moved to Trenton to become Head of the Model School, then Principal of New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton until 1871. He died on March 26, 1877, in Philadelphia.
Portrait of Effie Kuhn from 1934 The Seal yearbook
Kuhn, Effie Georgine, 1891-1978
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88600453 · Person · 1891-1978

Dr. Kuhn taught at New Jersey State Teachers College from 1919 to 1952 and was Head of the Speech Department, Supervisor of Drama, and member of the Faculty Committee on Assembly Programs.
Phelps, William F. (William Franklin), 1822-1907
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88650776 · Person · 1822-1907

William Franklin Phelps was born on February 15, 1822, to Lucinda Hitchcock and Halsey Phelps, in Auburn, New York. He attended Auburn schools, then graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1846. He stayed at the Normal School to teach in their model school, while also earning a master's degree from Union College in 1852. That same year, he married Caroline Chapman Livingstone (1820-1903), who came with children from a previous marriage, and together, they had daughter Alice Livingstone Phelps (Smith, MacGregor) (1854-1936) who later attended the Model School at Trenton for a brief time. He was the first Principal of the New Jersey State Normal School from 1855 to 1864, and organized the Farnum Preparatory School in Beverly, New Jersey at the same time. He left for Minnesota to become the second principal of Winona Normal School from 1864 to 1876. He was president of the Whitewater Normal School from 1876 to 1878, City Superintendent of Schools in Winona from 1878 from 1881, and Resident Director and board member of the State Normal Schools of Minnesota at Duluth. In addition to his roles heading schools, he served as president of the National Education Association and president of the American Normal School Association, and was widely published in educational publications. He died on August 15, 1907, in Minnesota. He was posthumously honored at Trenton State College with the dedication of a new dining hall, Phelps Hall, in 1956. Phelps Hall was razed and rebuilt as a much larger dormitory and rededicated in 1990.
Portrait of Roscoe West from 1931 The Seal yearbook
West, Roscoe L. (Roscoe Lambert), 1892-1979
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99022854 · Person · 1892 - 1979

Principal of New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton, and later President of New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton, from 1930 to 1957.
Turk, Jessie Rose, 1920-2009
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010140599 · Person · 1920-2009

Jessie R. Turk (1920-2009) graduated from Montclair State Teachers College in 1942, then obtained a master's degree from Oberlin College and doctorate from Columbia. She was a Professor of Geography at Trenton State from 1947 to 1982. An oral history interview with her in 1991 is available to view at https://www.njvid.net/show.php?pid=njcore:17492