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The Bachelor Brothers Who Built a University
In 1881, two bachelor brothers named Charles and Augustus Storrs donated 170 acres of family farmland and $5,000 to start an agricultural school in their struggling hometown of Mansfield, Connecticut. Their hometown had been devastated by the collapse of the local silk industry, and the brothers — successful New York merchants with no heirs — decided to bet on education. This episode traces the full arc: the Storrs family roots, the mercantile career in New York, the Morrill Act context, the school's brutal early years with a dozen students and an $8,000 annual budget, and the slow evolution…
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