Civil War veteran Charles Jefferson Wright founds…
September
1889 CE
Civil War veteran Charles Jefferson Wright founds New York Military Academy, with seventy-five students on thirty acres (one hundred and twenty thousand square meters) of land in Cornwall, New York, on September 17, 1889.
Wright, a former schoolteacher from New Hampshire Charles Jefferson Wright, had served as a former Commandant of Cadets of the nearby Peekskill Military Academy.