National Normal University
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- For the Taiwanese school, see National Taiwan Normal University.
National Normal University was a teacher's college in Lebanon, Ohio. It opened in 1855 as Southwestern State Normal College and took the name National Normal University in 1870. Alfred Holbrook was the first president and the school's guiding force for most of its existence. The school went bankrupt in 1895 and finally closed in 1917. Its records went to Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. Among its alumni were Cordell Hull and Lowell Thomas's father.
[edit] Notable Alummi
- Horatio C. Claypool
- Clement L. Brumbaugh
- Francis B. De Witt
- Lucien J. Fenton
- William T. Fitzgerald
- John W. Harreld
- Monroe Henry Kulp
- John J. Lentz
- John A. McDowell
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
- Stephen Morgan
- Will E. Neal
- Miner G. Norton
- James D. Post
- John M. Robsion
- George M. Wertz
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