Troy University was a short-lived university established at Troy, New York in which year, on the site now is Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Folsom Library, a research library constructed in the Brutalist style located on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY?
Folsom Library The Richard G. Folsom Library ("Folsom Library") is a research library constructed in the Brutalist style located on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. It is named after Richard Gilman Folsom, the President of the Institute from 1958–1971. The Folsom Library offers a variety of services to students and patrons of the library. In addition to loans, these services include class reserves, general writing and presentation assistance through the Center for Communication Practices, cultural and educational events, inter-library loans through ConnectNY, individual and group room reservations, computer labs, and wireless internet.
Mortimer Lamson Earle Mortimer Lamson Earle, Ph. D. (1864 – 1905) was an American classical scholar. He was born in New York City on October 14, 1864, the only child of Mortimer Lent Earle and Mercy Josephine Allen. He received his early education from Ashland Public School in East Orange, New Jersey and through private tutors, and was educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, receiving his doctorate from Columbia University in 1889. He studied at the University of Bonn and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the period from 1887 to 1889. At the latter in 1887 he was placed in charge of the excavations of the site of ancient Sikyon by Professor Augustus C. Merriam of Columbia. In 1892 he married Ethel Deodata Woodward (1864 – 1940). They had no children.