Towns bearing this name also exist in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Fordham Essex is arguably the most important of these towns, but all were held by Norman nobles in the 11th century. The surname Fordham was first found in Essex where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor of Fordham.
London: Penguin, The one which was most influential and gave rise to the name Fordham was that of Fordham in Essex which was held by William de Warrene and others. In the survey of the village consisted of a Mill, 6 Beehives, and 25 goats. It was the Norman custom that the senior son should continue the main line name, but that the second son should adopt the name of the manor.
Institute of Historical Research, , Print. Dictionary of National Biography. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Fordham research. Another 78 words 6 lines of text covering the years and are included under the topic Early Fordham History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Endless spelling variations are a prevailing characteristic of Norman surnames.
Named for James Finlay, S. Named for Patrick F. Dealy, S. Named after General Clarence R. Edwards , a professor of military science in the late s. Named for Cornelius Murphy, a football player who died from injuries suffered during the Fordham-Bucknell game. Named after Blessed Peter Faber. Named after Robert Moses , who helped Fordham acquire and develop the land for the present LC campus.
Named for George McMahon, S. Named for William J. Loschert , a Business School Alumnus and Fordham benefactor. It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. John's College are indicative of the poverty of the New York Catholic community in It took a brave man to start a college under such circumstances, but Hughes, an Irish immigrant himself, saw education as the indispensable means for his immigrant flock to break out of the cycle of poverty and better themselves economically and socially in their adopted homeland.
John's College and Hughes's first biographer. John's College opened its doors in as a diocesan institution with a grand total of six students.
If money was a problem, an even bigger problem was finding capable teachers and administrators among the diocesan clergy. During its first five years as a diocesan institution, Fordham had no fewer than four presidents. Two went on to fame and glory. The first president was John McCloskey, who succeeded Hughes as the second archbishop of New York in and became the first American cardinal in; James Roosevelt Bayley, the last diocesan priest to head the institution, was a convert from a distinguished New York Episcopalian family who became the first bishop of Newark and later the archbishop of Baltimore.
However, diocesan clergy of such caliber were the exception rather than the rule in New York. For both financial and personnel reasons, in Bishop Hughes was happy to sell St. John's College to a religious order with an international reputation as professional educators.
The presence of the Society of Jesus in the United States dates from the establishment of the Maryland colony in However, the Jesuits who arrived at Rose Hill in were not Maryland Jesuits, but exiled French Jesuits who were conducting a faltering college in the wilderness of Kentucky.
They were delighted to move from frontier America where it was necessary to place spittoons even in the college chapel to a site only seven miles from the largest city in the United States, and Hughes was pleased to obtain their services.
It seemed to be mutually advantageous for both sides, although there were to be a number of difficult moments for the Jesuits as long as John Hughes was alive. Throughout the later nineteenth century St. John's College remained a small liberal arts college, which was overshadowed by its upstart rival, the Jesuit College of St. At St. As late as Archbishop John Hughes would have recognized it immediately as the diocesan college that he had founded in In fact, there was at least one alumnus still alive who had graduated before John Hughes sold the school to the Jesuits in In , the year that Francis J.
John's College was still a small school with only students. They were roused from sleep at 6 a. In Spellman's graduation class of , there were twenty-eight students, equally divided into fourteen boarders and fourteen commuters. The entire teaching staff consisted of twelve Jesuits, ten priests and two scholastics.
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