Benjamin Franklin Koons - Storrs, CT
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A plaque in memory of Benjamin Franklin Koons, the first president of the Storrs Agricultural College, later to become the University of Connecticut, is located on North Eagleville Street, the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT.
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Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2022
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The present University of Connecticut was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School. In 1893, the school became a public land grant college. It became the University of Connecticut in 1939.
A plaque on a rock outcrop is inscribed:
IN MEMORY OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KOONS,
B.A. PH.D.
1844 — 1903
INSTRUCTOR AT STORRS
1881 — 1903
FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
ERECTED JUNE 11, 1905 BY THE GRADUATES
Benjamin Franklin Koons was born in in Sulphur Springs, Ohio on September 8, 1844. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1874 and entered the teaching profession. He received a Master's Degree from Oberlin in 1878 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1881. That year he was one of three founding faculty at Storrs Agricultural School which is now the University of Connecticut.