Photograph of George Minns, principal of Minns Evening Normal School 1857-1862 which later became the California State Normal School and was in turn the second principal of said school from 1865-66. Born in Boston in 1813, Minns graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1836 and received a law degree from the Howard Dane Law School of Harvard. He practiced law in Massachusetts for several years before moving to California. After the Gold Rush caused the collapse of his law practice and Minns lost all of his savings, he became a teacher at the Union Grammar School, the first California high school, and became principal of the Normal School the following year. Minn's Normal School was the first publicly funded institution of higher learning in the state of California. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/ Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
Normal School Presidents, Faculty & Staff School principals School superintendents Teachers San Jose State Normal School Minns, George Minns' Evening Normal School
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