This collection consists of two series of photo prints. Series 1 are photographs of various rural views in the North Country taken by Leroy Wilson Coons (SLU Div. ’95). Series 2 are photographs of the St. Lawrence University campus around the time of Rev. Coons years at SLU. Also included in Series 2 are photos of High Falls, near Canton, a pulp mill at High Falls, the mill after an explosion and several portrait photos, including I.M. Atwood, President of the Theological School when Coons was a student.
Fisher Hall, St. Lawrence University.
Collection Overview
Leroy Wilson Coons (1872-1948) received his Bachelors of Divinity from St. Lawrence University in 1895, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by SLU in 1915. He was ordained in Universalist Church in Winthrop, NY in 1895 and led a number of Universalist churches in Maine and Massachusetts over the course of his career in ministry. In 1922, Rev. Coons was appointed Superintendent of the Universalist Church in Massachusetts, a position he held until his retirement in 1942. Rev. Coons married Elsie Loraine Thomas, (SLU n 1900) in the Canton Universalist Church in 1897.