Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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ALEB MILLS was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in 1806. He was graduated from Dartmouth and attended the Andover Theological Seminary. As a Sunday School mission- ary agent, he made extensive journeys through the Far West , visiting the Wabash Country. In 1833 he read an article written by the Reverend james Thomson of Crawfordsville, mentioning the classical school to be started at Crawfordsville, where a competent number of teachers may be trained to spread over the country to teach the children of this rapidly populating district. This directed the attention of Mr. Mills to the West, and he began correspond- ence with the author, which resulted in his appointment to the English Department at Wabash. In 1833 he married Miss Sarah Marshall and started for Indiana with his bride and four teachers. He organized the first classes in the school and later accepted the principalship. In 1846 he addressed a message to the legislature and signed it One of the People . In this message and in the five that followed, he presented a remarkable array of facts, suggested plans, answered ob- jections, and presented arguments, all bearing down upon the one point-the free common schools for all children of Indiana. After the second message a vote of the people was taken, and free public schools were endorsed by a good majority. When the identity of One of the Peop1e became known, Caleb Mills was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction. Caleb Mills died October 17, 1879, in his seventy-third year. Indiana shall remember him as long as she maintains a system of free public schools. It is with a great deal of respect that we dedicate this book to the man who helped lay the founda- tions of our present school system.

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HE Condit Home witnessed the founding of the Indiana State Normal School and has watched the growth and develop- ment of the institution, which is now known as Indiana State Teachers College, up to the present time. This house saw the tearing down of Vigo County Seminary for the purpose of giving a site for the administration building. It has watched thirty-eight residences come down to make way for the growing institution. lt saw the fire which destroyed the whole school plant, and witnessed the marvelous rebuilding and the succeeding growth of the school. Today it is seeing a new program of building being carried out. The house was built in 1860 and in 1863 was bought by the Reverend Blackford Condit. The Condit family had come from New Iersey. The old Condit home in Terre Haute stood on the site which is now occupied by the Physical Education Building. When Reverend Condit married, he bought the house desig- nated by the directories at the time as The fifth house east of Sixth Street . The Condit family has always been connected with the school because of the fact that the wife of Reverend Condit, Sarah Louisa Mills Condit, was the daughter of Caleb Mills. The Condit home was a frequent visiting place of the noted educator. Miss Helen Condit, the daughter of the Reverend Blackford Condit and the granddaughter of Caleb Mills, now lives in the home. She has been interested in maintaining the original furnishings of the house along with many articles belonging to her famous grandfather. THE MQRNING ROOM THE DRAWING Room THE MILLS BEDROOM .-1 1 r J ,, , .. . .gf -n wi li' 1 at ljr 'Q ui 55, 6