John Collins Bryant

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.

Along with his brother, Henry Beadman Bryant, and his brother-in-law, Henry Dwight Stratton, Bryant graduated from Folsom Business College in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

After Henry Bryant's death, John sold all of his interest in the schools, but the one in Buffalo.