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The college began looking for a new home at the same time Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince [[Ezra Cornell]] and [[Andrew Dickson White]] to locate [[Cornell University]] there rather than in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]].<ref name="PioneerYears" /><ref name="Greene" /> Syracuse resident White pressed that the new university should locate on the hill in [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]] (the current location of Syracuse University) due to the city's attractive transportation hub, which would ease the recruitment of faculty, students, and other persons of note. However, as a young carpenter working in Syracuse, Cornell had been twice robbed of his wages,<ref name="reminiscences" /><ref name="cornell_syr" /> and thereafter considered Syracuse a [[Sodom and Gomorrah]], insisting the university be in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]] on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and [[Cayuga Lake]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} | The college began looking for a new home at the same time Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince [[Ezra Cornell]] and [[Andrew Dickson White]] to locate [[Cornell University]] there rather than in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]].<ref name="PioneerYears" /><ref name="Greene" /> Syracuse resident White pressed that the new university should locate on the hill in [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]] (the current location of Syracuse University) due to the city's attractive transportation hub, which would ease the recruitment of faculty, students, and other persons of note. However, as a young carpenter working in Syracuse, Cornell had been twice robbed of his wages,<ref name="reminiscences" /><ref name="cornell_syr" /> and thereafter considered Syracuse a [[Sodom and Gomorrah]], insisting the university be in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]] on his large farm on East Hill, overlooking the town and [[Cayuga Lake]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} | ||
Meanwhile, there were several years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse.<ref name="Syracuse v Genesee"/> At the time, the ministers wanted a share of the funds from the [[Morrill Land Grant Act]] for Genesee College. They agreed to a ''[[quid pro quo]]'' donation of $25,000 from Senator Cornell in exchange for their (Methodist) support for his bill. Cornell insisted the bargain be written into the bill and Cornell became New York State's Land Grant University in 1865.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got a court injunction to block the move, and Genesee stayed in Lima until it was dissolved in 1875.<ref name="found" /> By that time, however, the court injunction had been made moot by the founding of a new university on March 24, 1870.<ref name="Syracuse v Genesee"/><ref name="New University in Syracuse"/><ref name="Methodist resolves october 1870"/> On that date the State of New York granted the new Syracuse University its own charter, independent of Genesee College.<ref name="found" /> An endowment of $400,000 was subscribed by the Methodist church and the City of Syracuse offered $100,000 to establish the school.<ref name=" | Meanwhile, there were several years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse.<ref name="Syracuse v Genesee"/> At the time, the ministers wanted a share of the funds from the [[Morrill Land Grant Act]] for Genesee College. They agreed to a ''[[quid pro quo]]'' donation of $25,000 from Senator Cornell in exchange for their (Methodist) support for his bill. Cornell insisted the bargain be written into the bill and Cornell became New York State's Land Grant University in 1865.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}} In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got a court injunction to block the move, and Genesee stayed in Lima until it was dissolved in 1875.<ref name="found" /> By that time, however, the court injunction had been made moot by the founding of a new university on March 24, 1870.<ref name="Syracuse v Genesee"/><ref name="New University in Syracuse"/><ref name="Methodist resolves october 1870"/> On that date the State of New York granted the new Syracuse University its own charter, independent of Genesee College.<ref name="found" /> An endowment of $400,000 was subscribed by the Methodist church and the City of Syracuse offered $100,000 to establish the school.<ref name="found" /><ref name="founding_endowment" /> [[Jesse T. Peck|Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck]] had donated $25,000 to the proposed school<ref name="dickinson" /> and was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees.<ref name="Greene" /><ref name="Peck" /> | ||
Rev. Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its chancellor was appointed.<ref name="The Hill: an illustrated biography of Syracuse University, 1870–present" /> The university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown.<ref name="found" /><ref name="first years"/><ref name="A&S-150" /> Judge [[George F. Comstock]], a member of the new university's board of trustees, had offered the school {{convert|50|acre|m2}} of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center.<ref name="comstock land" /> Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole; a contemporary account described the latter as "a beautiful town ... springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership ... established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution."<ref name="architectural" /> | Rev. Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its chancellor was appointed.<ref name="The Hill: an illustrated biography of Syracuse University, 1870–present" /> The university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown.<ref name="found" /><ref name="first years"/><ref name="A&S-150" /> Judge [[George F. Comstock]], a member of the new university's board of trustees, had offered the school {{convert|50|acre|m2}} of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center.<ref name="comstock land" /> Comstock intended Syracuse University and the hill to develop as an integrated whole; a contemporary account described the latter as "a beautiful town ... springing up on the hillside and a community of refined and cultivated membership ... established near the spot which will soon be the center of a great and beneficent educational institution."<ref name="architectural" /> | ||