page_title: Chaddock College
section_title: John Wood Mansion
hierarchical_section_title: Chaddock College / John Wood Mansion
caption_attribution_description: English: Edwin Walter Hall Born 1838, Watertown, N. Y. Died February 27, 1889, Greenville, Ky. B.A., Genesee College (now Syracuse University), 1863; M.A., Syracuse, 1866. Principal of High School, Watertown, N. Y., 1863-64. President, Greenville Female College, Ky., 1864-69; Chaddock College, Ill., 1869-78. Principal of Cazenovia Seminary, N. Y., 1878-80.
context_page_description: Chaddock College was located in Quincy, Illinois. Initially known as the German and English Methodist Academy, the school was renamed Johnson College for a short time before it was organized and chartered as Chaddock College in 1878. In 1899, it was reorganized again as Chaddock Boys’ School.
context_section_description: In December 1875, when the John Wood Mansion, at the corner of Eleventh and State streets, was sold in the courts, it was purchased by the college. It had belonged to former Governor John Woods, and originally cost some US$200,000. The trustees disposed of their former college building to the city for a public school. The former location of the school was where the Jefferson public school later stood.
  In December 1876, the school having become involved in debt, a donation of US$30,000 was made to the college by Charles Chaddock, of Astoria, Illinois. It was organized and chartered in 1878 as Chaddock College. It was under the care of Rev. Edwin Walter Hall, A.M., assisted by a corps of teachers, and had a regular and thorough course of study. In 1888, the Quincy College of Medicine was reorganized and became the medical department of Chaddock College.
caption: Edwin Walter Hall, president
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