Leavenworth Normal School located in Leavenworth, Kansas was a state-funded normal school operated by the Kansas state government from 1870 until 1876.
Leavenworth Normal began on May 3, 1870, and John Wherrell was named president of the college. by 1874, about 100 students were enrolledTransactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Volume 6 By Kansas State Historical Society, page 116 including C. M. Arbuthnot. The school also maintained student housing.State of Kansas Public Documents Collection of 1870, page 190
Depending upon state aid, the school closed a little after Concordia Normal School which met the same fate. A history of the State normal school of Kansas: for the first twenty-five years By Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia Following the "Miscellaneous appropriations bill of 1876"Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, Volume 6 By Kansas State Historical Society] state normal schools were then consolidated to what is now Emporia State UniversityA Standard History of Kansas and Kansans "State Normal School, Concordia" by William E. Connelley, transcribed by Carolyn Ward, 2000
Notable alumni James H. Brady, eighth Governor of Idaho
References