Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 11/13/2025, 10:52:52 PM
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The photographic reproductions (JPEG/TIFF) capture the original hand‑written text, including the table of votes and the formal language of the minutes.
**File‑to‑document links**
@file_pinax -> documents -> @faculty_meeting_minutes_feb_25_1859:document {date: @date_1859_02_25, creator: @edwin_russell, description: "Minutes of a faculty meeting held on February 25 1859, detailing the voting for degree candidates, the authorization to confer the M.P. degree, and planning of a public commencement."}
@file_a092_001_121_jpg -> documents -> @faculty_meeting_minutes_feb_25_1859:document
@file_a092_001_122_jpg -> documents -> @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event
@file_a092_001_123_jpg -> documents -> @annual_anniversary_meeting_april_2_1859:event
**Events & places**
@faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {when: @date_1859_02_25, where: @faculty_meeting_location}
@faculty_meeting_location:place {description: "Location of the faculty meeting (unspecified in the record)"}
@public_commencement_march_5_1859:event {when: @date_1859_03_05, where: @concert_hall}
@concert_hall:place {description: "Concert Hall where the eighth annual commencement was held"}
@reunion_farewell_evening:event {when: @date_1859_03_05, where: @preston_house}
@preston_house:place {owner: @prof_preston, description: "Residence of Prof. Preston, site of the evening reunion and farewell"}
@annual_anniversary_meeting_april_2_1859:event {when: @date_1859_04_02, where: @faculty_meeting_location, participants: [@prof_cleveland, @prof_birdsell, @rockey, @thorell]}
**People (persons)**
@edwin_russell:person {full_name: "Edwin Russell", role: "Dean"}
@prof_birdsell:person {full_name: "Edwin Birdsell", role: "Professor and President of the College"}
@dr_gorminger:person {full_name: "Dr. Gorminger", role: "Faculty member"}
@prof_cleveland:person {full_name: "Prof. Cleveland", role: "Professor"}
@dr_russell:person {full_name: "Dr. Russell", role: "Dean (same as Edwin Russell)"}
@dr_temple:person {full_name: "Dr. Temple", role: "Committee member"}
@prof_preston:person {full_name: "Prof. Preston", role: "Faculty member"}
@dr_fessell:person {full_name: "Dr. Fessell", role: "Committee member"}
@rockey:person {full_name: "Rockey", role: "Faculty member"}
@thorell:person {full_name: "Thorell", role: "Faculty member"}
@sutnamine_underwood:person {full_name: "Sutnamine S. Underwood"}
@mary_malin_bailey:person {full_name: "Mary Malin Bailey"}
@st_winona_stratton:person {full_name: "St. Winona Stratton"}
@harriet_adams:person {full_name: "Harriet Adams"}
@maria_w_porter:person {full_name: "Maria W. Porter"}
@lizzie_s_mellen:person {full_name: "Lizzie S. Mellen"}
**Concepts & documents**
@mp_degree:concept {name: "M.P.", description: "Master of Pharmacy degree"}
@valedictory_address:document {title: "Valedictory Address", delivered_by: @prof_birdsell, event: @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event}
@commencement_committee:organization {purpose: "Obtain a hall and arrange all needful details for the public commencement"}
@banqueting_committee:organization {purpose: "Plan banqueting for the ensuing year"}
@publication_committee:organization {purpose: "Publish the essay of the 10th Annual Anniversary"}
**Voting results (relationships with properties)**
@sutnamine_underwood -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 66, black: 4, elected: true}
@mary_malin_bailey -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 60, black: 10, elected: true}
@st_winona_stratton -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 58, black: 12, elected: true}
@harriet_adams -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 56, black: 14, elected: true}
@maria_w_porter -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 55, black: 15, elected: true}
@lizzie_s_mellen -> received votes -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {white: 53, black: 17, elected: false}
**Degree conferral & authorization**
@edwin_russell -> authorized -> @mp_degree {recipients: [@sutnamine_underwood, @mary_malin_bailey, @st_winona_stratton, @harriet_adams, @maria_w_porter], at: @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event}
@prof_cleveland -> conferred -> @mp_degree {to: [@sutnamine_underwood, @mary_malin_bailey, @st_winona_stratton, @harriet_adams, @maria_w_porter], at: @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event}
@prof_birdsell -> delivered -> @valedictory_address
**Committee appointments**
@dr_russell -> appointed -> @commencement_committee
@dr_temple -> appointed -> @commencement_committee
@dr_fessell -> appointed -> @banqueting_committee
@rockey -> appointed -> @banqueting_committee
@prof_cleveland -> appointed -> @banqueting_committee
@dr_temple -> appointed to deliver -> @introductory_address:document {event: @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event, note: "next general introductory"}
@prof_cleveland -> appointed to deliver -> @next_valedictory_address:document {event: @public_commencement_march_5_1859:event, note: "next valedictory address"}
**Other resolutions & recommendations**
@edwin_russell -> recommended -> @ny_woman_infirmary:place {purpose: "Spending some time in the N.Y. Woman's Infirmary for graduates"}
@faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event -> resolved -> @ny_woman_infirmary:place {action: "recommendation to graduates"}
@faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event -> changed voting rule -> @faculty_meeting_feb_25_1859:event {new_rule: "Require 55 white votes out of 70 and at least 5 white votes in every tribe; voting to be by open ballot"}
**Publication of anniversary essay**
@annual_anniversary_meeting_april_2_1859:event -> produced -> @publication_committee
@publication_committee -> prepared -> @essay_of_10th_anniversary:document {type: "Essay", status: "Agreed for joint publication with corporation"}Feb 25th, 1859 Present—all the members of the Faculty On motion of Prof Birdsell Dr Gorminger was invited to vote on the various candidates for degree as tho a member of the Faculty. The voting for candidates was then proceeded with, and resulted as follows: <table> <tr> <th></th> <th>White votes</th> <th>Black votes</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Sutnamine S. Underwood</td> <td>66</td> <td>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mary Malin Bailey</td> <td>60</td> <td>10</td> </tr> <tr> <td>St. Winona Stratton</td> <td>58</td> <td>12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Harriet Adams</td> <td>56</td> <td>14</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Maria W. Porter</td> <td>55</td> <td>15</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lizzie S. Mellen</td> <td>53</td> <td>17</td> </tr> </table> All having received over fifty white votes were therefore declared duly elected, and the Dean was authorized to recommend that the degree of M.P. be conferred upon them at a public commencement to be held at such time & place as may be agreed upon. Resolved that the respective candidates be informed of the vote in her own case and that the Faculty recommend to the graduates the propriety of spending some time in the N.York Woman's Infirmary.
to some other place where they may obtain a fuller practical knowledge of pharmacy and disease. Moreover, that Dr. Russell & Temple be a committee to act with a similar one appointed by the corporators, to obtain a hall and make all other needful arrangements for holding the public commencement. Adjourned Edwin Russell Dean The Eight Annual Commencement was held in Concert Hall on the fifth of March 1859. Prof Cleveland conferred the degree and Prof Birdsell delivered the valedictory. The hall was crowded by an attentive audience. On the evening of the same day a pleasant meeting of reunion and farewell was held at the house of Prof Preston and attended by the students, faculty, corporators, & friends of the College.
April 2nd, 1859 Present: Cleveland, Birdsell, Rockey and Thorell. An essay of the 10th Annual Anniversary was presented and agreed to and the committee continued as part of a joint committee with the corporation for its publication. Voted that Dr. Fessell, Rockey and Cleveland be the committee on banqueting for the ensuing year. On motion Dr Temple was appointed to deliver the next general introductory and Dr Cleveland the next valedictory address. It was voted unanimously to change the rules of voting for candidates so as to require fifty-five white votes out of seventy, and not less than five white votes in every tribe to elect and that in order to know this, that the voting be by open ballot. Adjourned Edwin Birdsell pres.
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