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3 unusual facts about Claverack College


Claverack College

Stephen Crane, author (said his time at Claverack was among the happiest in his life)

The George Felpel House, currently on the western half of the property, uses some of the school buildings' stones.

In 1890 student, Stephen Crane, who later became a prominent author, published his first article in the February 1890 Claverack College Vidette about the explorer Henry M. Stanley's quest to find the English missionary David Livingstone in Africa.


John B. Van Petten

From 1885 to 1900, he was Professor of History, Latin and Elocution at Claverack College where his pupil Stephen Crane heard Van Petten's Civil War reminiscences which became the base for The Red Badge of Courage.


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