Noah Linsly
A Connecticut Yankee who traveled to Virginia (what is now West Virginia) to practice law, Noah Linsly died in 1814 but his name still lives, thanks to the school which his money made possible.
Perhaps the epitaph on his tombstone in Mt. Wood Cemetery describes him best -- "A Friend of Youth and a Benefactor of Mankind."
The son of Josiah and Rachel Linsly, Noah Linsly was born at Branford, Conn., on Jan. 26, 1774. He was a graduate of Litchfield Law School and received his B. A. from Yale in 1791.
In 1803, he was invited to the office of tutor at Williams College, then recently incorporated. That appointment was undoubtedly due to the impression he had made upon Williams President Ebenezer Fitch, who had been on the faculty at Yale but left in 1791 for the academy which grew into Williams College.
After a year at Williams, Linsly became an instructor at Yale. His success and his scholarship were recognized in 1795 when both Williams and Yale conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1797, Linsly moved to Morgantown, W. Va., and entered into the practice of law. Two years later, in 1799, he came as a stranger to Wheeling -- just four years after the community received its charter from the state of Virginia -- but in the brief span he spent in the community, he established himself as one of its leading citizens. He served as a member of council, prosecuting attorney, and mayor. When he succumbed on March 25, 1814, at the age of 41, his will provided that all of his property, with the exception of a gift of $3,000 to the Yale University Library, be used "for the use, benefit and advantage of a Lancastrian School" in Wheeling.
In his will, Noah Linsly made a bequest of two farms he owned in Ohio County to Noah Zane and Samuel Sprigg as trustees to found a school for boys on the Lancastrian principle, whereby older boys are trained and in turn serve as tutors to younger boys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsly_School
http://www.linsly.org
A Connecticut Yankee who traveled to Virginia (what is now West Virginia) to practice law, Noah Linsly died in 1814 but his name still lives, thanks to the school which his money made possible.
Perhaps the epitaph on his tombstone in Mt. Wood Cemetery describes him best -- "A Friend of Youth and a Benefactor of Mankind."
The son of Josiah and Rachel Linsly, Noah Linsly was born at Branford, Conn., on Jan. 26, 1774. He was a graduate of Litchfield Law School and received his B. A. from Yale in 1791.
In 1803, he was invited to the office of tutor at Williams College, then recently incorporated. That appointment was undoubtedly due to the impression he had made upon Williams President Ebenezer Fitch, who had been on the faculty at Yale but left in 1791 for the academy which grew into Williams College.
After a year at Williams, Linsly became an instructor at Yale. His success and his scholarship were recognized in 1795 when both Williams and Yale conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1797, Linsly moved to Morgantown, W. Va., and entered into the practice of law. Two years later, in 1799, he came as a stranger to Wheeling -- just four years after the community received its charter from the state of Virginia -- but in the brief span he spent in the community, he established himself as one of its leading citizens. He served as a member of council, prosecuting attorney, and mayor. When he succumbed on March 25, 1814, at the age of 41, his will provided that all of his property, with the exception of a gift of $3,000 to the Yale University Library, be used "for the use, benefit and advantage of a Lancastrian School" in Wheeling.
In his will, Noah Linsly made a bequest of two farms he owned in Ohio County to Noah Zane and Samuel Sprigg as trustees to found a school for boys on the Lancastrian principle, whereby older boys are trained and in turn serve as tutors to younger boys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsly_School
http://www.linsly.org
Noah Linsly
A Connecticut Yankee who traveled to Virginia (what is now West Virginia) to practice law, Noah Linsly died in 1814 but his name still lives, thanks to the school which his money made possible.
Perhaps the epitaph on his tombstone in Mt. Wood Cemetery describes him best -- "A Friend of Youth and a Benefactor of Mankind."
The son of Josiah and Rachel Linsly, Noah Linsly was born at Branford, Conn., on Jan. 26, 1774. He was a graduate of Litchfield Law School and received his B. A. from Yale in 1791.
In 1803, he was invited to the office of tutor at Williams College, then recently incorporated. That appointment was undoubtedly due to the impression he had made upon Williams President Ebenezer Fitch, who had been on the faculty at Yale but left in 1791 for the academy which grew into Williams College.
After a year at Williams, Linsly became an instructor at Yale. His success and his scholarship were recognized in 1795 when both Williams and Yale conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1797, Linsly moved to Morgantown, W. Va., and entered into the practice of law. Two years later, in 1799, he came as a stranger to Wheeling -- just four years after the community received its charter from the state of Virginia -- but in the brief span he spent in the community, he established himself as one of its leading citizens. He served as a member of council, prosecuting attorney, and mayor. When he succumbed on March 25, 1814, at the age of 41, his will provided that all of his property, with the exception of a gift of $3,000 to the Yale University Library, be used "for the use, benefit and advantage of a Lancastrian School" in Wheeling.
In his will, Noah Linsly made a bequest of two farms he owned in Ohio County to Noah Zane and Samuel Sprigg as trustees to found a school for boys on the Lancastrian principle, whereby older boys are trained and in turn serve as tutors to younger boys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsly_School
http://www.linsly.org
A Connecticut Yankee who traveled to Virginia (what is now West Virginia) to practice law, Noah Linsly died in 1814 but his name still lives, thanks to the school which his money made possible.
Perhaps the epitaph on his tombstone in Mt. Wood Cemetery describes him best -- "A Friend of Youth and a Benefactor of Mankind."
The son of Josiah and Rachel Linsly, Noah Linsly was born at Branford, Conn., on Jan. 26, 1774. He was a graduate of Litchfield Law School and received his B. A. from Yale in 1791.
In 1803, he was invited to the office of tutor at Williams College, then recently incorporated. That appointment was undoubtedly due to the impression he had made upon Williams President Ebenezer Fitch, who had been on the faculty at Yale but left in 1791 for the academy which grew into Williams College.
After a year at Williams, Linsly became an instructor at Yale. His success and his scholarship were recognized in 1795 when both Williams and Yale conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1797, Linsly moved to Morgantown, W. Va., and entered into the practice of law. Two years later, in 1799, he came as a stranger to Wheeling -- just four years after the community received its charter from the state of Virginia -- but in the brief span he spent in the community, he established himself as one of its leading citizens. He served as a member of council, prosecuting attorney, and mayor. When he succumbed on March 25, 1814, at the age of 41, his will provided that all of his property, with the exception of a gift of $3,000 to the Yale University Library, be used "for the use, benefit and advantage of a Lancastrian School" in Wheeling.
In his will, Noah Linsly made a bequest of two farms he owned in Ohio County to Noah Zane and Samuel Sprigg as trustees to found a school for boys on the Lancastrian principle, whereby older boys are trained and in turn serve as tutors to younger boys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linsly_School
http://www.linsly.org
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