A history of the New York state teachers' association

CHAPTER I. — Early Associations and Measures....... 9

Rise of Voluntary Associations — First Teachers' Associations — New York State Convention of 1831 — The Common School Assistant — Conventions of 1836 and 1837 — The District School Journal — Leaders and Causes — Gideon Hawley — The Free School Law — County and Town Supervision — Teachers' Qualifications — Institutes and Normal Schools — David P. Page — Teachers' Classes — State Certificates and Examinations — The Regents' Examinations — Compulsory Education — Religion and Health.

CHAPTER II. — Organization and First Decade of the Association 16

First Meeting at Syracuse, 1845 — Chester Dewey. Second Meeting at Utica, 1846 — Joseph McKeen. Third Meeting at Rochester, 1847 — Samuel B. Woolworth. Fourth Meeting at Auburn, 1848 — Charles R. Coburn. The Cholera Season. Fifth Meeting at New York City, 1850— John W. Bulkley. Sixth Meeting at Buffalo, 1851 — N. P. Stanton. Seventh Meeting at Elmira, 1S52 — Charles Davies. Eighth Meeting at Rochester, 1853 — Victor M. Rice. Ninth Meeting at Oswego, 1854 — Reuben D. Jones. Review of the Work.

CHAPTER III. — Second Decade of the Association

Tenth Meeting at Utica, 1S55 — Leonard Hazeltine. Eleventh Meeting at Troy, 1856 — Organization of Commissioners and Superintendents — Thomas W. Valentine. Twelfth Meeting at Binghampton, 1857 — National Teachers' Association — George L. Farnham. Thirteenth Meeting at Lockport, 1858 — Oliver Arey. Fourteenth Meeting at Poughkeepsie, 1859 — James N. McElligott. Fifteenth Meeting at Syracuse, i860 — Edward A. Sheldon. Sixteenth Meeting at Watertown, 1861 — James Cruikshank. Seventeenth Meeting at Rochester, 1862 — Emerson C. Pomeroy. Eighteenth Meeting at Troy, 1863 — James B. Thomson. Nineteenth Meeting at Buffalo, 1864 — Edward North. The University Convocation. Review.

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CHAPTER IV. — Third Decade of the Association.... 50

New Brooms. Twentieth Meeting at Elmira, 1865 — James Atwater. Twenty-first Meeting at Geneva, 1866 — Samuel G. Williams. Twenty-second Meeting at Auburn, 1S67 — James W. Barker. Twenty-third Meeting at Owego, 1868 — William N. Reid. Twenty-fourth Meeting at Ithaca, 1S69 — Samuel D. Barr. Twenty-fifth Meetingat Syracuse, 1870 — J. Dorman Steele. Twenty-sixth Meeting at Lockport, 1871— James H. Hoose. Twenty-seventh Meeting at Saratoga, 1S72 — Edward Danforth. Twenty-eighth Meetingat Utica, 1S73 — Andrew McMillan. Twenty-ninth Meeting at Binghampton, 1874 — Henry R. Sanford. Review of Third Decade.