Anton SANDER at Yale

After graduating from Luther College in the spring of 1874, Anton enrolled at Yale in New Haven, CT. Ancestry.com has several records from some of Yale's old catalogs and yearbooks that contain Anton's name. This page has him listed as a student of Philosophy and the Arts.


Yale College in 1874. (New Haven, CT, 1874), p. 14. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Educational Institutions. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Shown below are pages from two different yearbooks for 1875. Anton is listed as a graduate student in Philosophy and the Arts from Decorah, Iowa. He was living at 38 High Street.


Right image: Yale Pot Pourri (New Haven, CT, 1875), p. 17. Left image: Catalog of Officers and Students of Yale College 1874 (New Haven, CT, 1875), p. 21. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.

In 1876, Anton was still living at 38 High St. Now, however, in addition to being a student in Philosophy and the Arts, he also is listed as a member of the Theology Department. At some point during the year he moved into 107 West Divinity Hall.


Right image: The Yale Banner (New Haven, CT, 1876), p. 11. Center image: Yale Pot Pourri (New Haven, CT, 1876), p. 18. Left image: The Yale Banner (New Haven, CT, 1876), p. 38. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Various school yearbooks from across the United States.

The stars in the following image from Google Maps show the locations of 77 Ashmun St., 38 High St., 107 West Divinity Hall, and their relationship to the Yale campus. Today 77 Ashmun St. would be across the street from the Paolillo Service Station and presumably part of the Grove Street Cemetery.


Environs of Yale University campus, New Haven, CT. Image courtesy of Google Maps.

It is interesting that there still is a residence at 38 High St. as the image below from Google's street view shows. Whether it dates to the 1870s, however, is unknown.


38 High St., New Haven, CT. Image courtesy of Google Maps Street View.

According to Wikipedia:

When the [Theological] department was organized as a school in 1869, it was moved to a campus across from the northwest corner of the New Haven Green composed of East Divinity Hall (1869), Marquand Chapel (1871), West Divinity Hall (1871), and the Trowbridge Library (1881). The buildings, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, were demolished under the residential college plan and replaced by Calhoun College.

The star on the map above representing Calhoun College is where West Divinity Hall (shown below) was located.


Old Divinity School building of the Yale Divinity School, the school's second home. East Divinity Hall (right, 1870), Marquand Chapel (center, 1872), and West Divinity Hall (left, 1874). Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division and Wikimedia Commons.

Ancestry did not have any records for 1877 which is when he earned his doctoral degree. But there are two pages for 1878 that suggest he may have stayed for another academic year as an instructor. By the fall of 1878, Anton had returned to Decorah to teach at Luther.


Right image: Yale Pot Pourri (New Haven, CT, 1878), p. 12. Left image: Yale Pot Pourri (New Haven, CT, 1878), p. 22. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Educational Institutions. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.