- Santiam Academy
Santiam Academy was an early primary and secondary school in Lebanon,
Oregon ,United States , run by theMethodist Episcopal Church .History
The predecessor of the school was founded by pioneers in 1852 in a
log cabin . Santiam Academy was created onJanuary 18 1854 , by an act of theOregon Territorial Legislature , and a larger building was constructed between 1854 and 1856.cite web|url=http://www.lebanon.k12.or.us/images/history/history_acd.htm|title=Santiam Academy History|accessdate=2008-05-14|publisher=Lebanon Community School District ] Among the members of the first board of trustees wereDelazon Smith andDavid W. Ballard .cite web|last=Pratt|first=Anna D.S| url=http://www.linncountyroots.com/Churches/history_of_the_first_methodist_c.htm|title=History of the First Methodist Church of Lebanon, and of Its Associate, Santiam Academy|accessdate=2008-05-14|publisher=LinnCountyRoots.com] cite web|url=http://www.mvonline.com/founders/founders-02.html|title=Founder's Day|accessdate=2008-05-14|publisher="Lebanon Express"]Attendance at the school dropped after the establishment of a public
school district in 1870, and the academy shut down during the 1903-1904 school year. The church then turned the property over to the Lebanon School District. The building was torn down in the 1930s and in 1945, Santiam School was built on the site, across from Lebanon High School. Santiam School closed in 1982 and was torn down in 2002. The site is now a Lebanon city park.Notable alumni
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Owen Nickerson Denny , judge, United States consul general to China, introduced the ring-necked pheasant to the U.S.cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=8444|title=The first ring-necked pheasants introduced into the United States arrive at Port Townsend on March 13, 1881|publisher=HistoryLink.org|accessdate=2008-05-14]
*Melvin Clark George , U.S. RepresentativeNotable administrators and faculty
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William Holman Odell , Surveyor General of Oregon, editor of the "Statesman Journal ", namesake of Odell Lake cite book|last=Hodgkin|first=Frank E|coauthors=J. J. Galvin|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mOHT9nx7ogIC&pg=PA185|title=Pen Pictures of Representative Men of Oregon|year=1882|page=p. 185]ee also
*Bethel College
*Tualatin Academy
*McMinnville College
*Oregon Institute References
External links
* [http://photos.salemhistory.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/max&CISOPTR=1352&REC=1 Santiam Academy in Lebanon, Oregon, 1936] , Oregon Historic Photograph Collections, Salem Public Library
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