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Overview
Levi Silliman Ives was an early Hamilton College student who went on to become the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina (1831–1853). He later converted to Roman Catholicism in 1852, a highly publicized event, and subsequently worked in Catholic charitable education in New York. He is one of the more prominent religious figures among Hamilton’s early alumni.
Relevance to Research
The 1818–19 Hamilton College catalog lists Ives as a “Junior Sophister” (i.e., a junior-year student) from Martinsburg, New York. This places him at Hamilton in the 1818–19 academic year.
Notes
The corpus entry is a bare enrollment listing. His hometown is given as Martinsburg (now in Lewis County, New York). The catalog designation “Junior Sophister” was an early 19th-century term for a third-year student.
Related Sources
- yhm-arc-pub-cat-1818-19_djvu.txt