John Collins Bryant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physician (1821-1901)
Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1821
Place of Birth: Stroud, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 06-Nov-1901
Profession: physician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Collins Bryant
- John Collins Bryant (1821–1901) was an American physician, author, and the co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island. Bryant was born on December 21, 1821 in Ebley in Gloucestershire, England to John Bryant, a farmer, and Pormela (Collins) Bryant.
- Bryant immigrated to Ohio from England with his family in 1829, and his father acquired a farm in Ohio.
- During the winters Bryant attended the local public schools in Ohio and then Norwalk Seminary, a Methodist school, and then he graduated from Cleveland Medical College in 1846 before practicing medicine in Amherst, Ohio.
- Bryant married Hannah M.
- Clarke on May 21, 1851 and they had three children.
- Along with his brother, Henry Beadman Bryant, and his brother-in-law, Henry Dwight Stratton, Bryant graduated from Folsom Business College in Cleveland, Ohio.
- The trio later purchased the school from the owner, Ezekiel G.
- Folsom, who founded his school in 1848.
- Bryant & Stratton College was officially organized in 1854 to provide practical workplace education, and was formerly known as Bryant and Stratton Business Institute.
- In addition to purchasing the Cleveland school, Bryant and Stratton established a number of business schools that operated under the name of Bryant & Stratton & Co's chain of International Commercial Colleges in most major US cities.
- By 1864 as many as 50 schools existed.
- John C.
- Bryant served as president of the Buffalo Bryant and Stratton Business College from 1860 until he died in 1901.
- After Henry Bryant's death, John sold all of his interest in the schools, but the one in Buffalo.
- He died on November 6, 1901 in Buffalo, New York.
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