Chapter I 2 school records
The Inheritance
1894–1929
Pomfret School Founded
Pomfret School (pomfret.org)Already published on site William E. Peck and his wife Harriet founded Pomfret School as an independent, Episcopal-affiliated, all-boys college preparatory boarding school. The school opened with 42 male students and six faculty members in the Charles Grosvenor Inn. Harriet and three daughters — Esther, Rachel, and Margaret — were the only females on campus at that time.
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Pomfret School records, 1894-10-03. Pomfret School Archives. Not publicly digitized; verified against internal institutional history.
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Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court upheld state-mandated segregation under "separate but equal."
External source: National Archives
Pomfret School Incorporates
Pomfret School Archives, via Wikimedia CommonsPD — published pre-1931 Four years after its founding, Pomfret formally incorporated, transitioning from a privately-operated school under Founder William E. Peck to a non-profit institution governed by a Board of Trustees. Louis C. Clark served as the inaugural Trustee President. Peck himself had recommended the move in his final months — "to incorporate the school so that he might be relieved of its financial responsibility" — clearing the institutional path for his successor William Beach Olmsted to focus on educational rather than fiscal leadership.
Source
Pomfret School Board minutes, 1898-06-01. Pomfret School Archives. Not publicly digitized; verified against internal institutional history.
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19th Amendment Certified. The 19th Amendment barred denial of the vote on the basis of sex (ratified August 18; certified August 26).
External source: National Archives
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