Theodore Stowell

[1] Theodore Barrows Stowell was born in Mansfield Center, Connecticut in 1847 to an old New England family of farmers and land owners, and he attended Woodstock Academy and the Connecticut State Normal School (now the Central Connecticut State University).

[2] He then worked as a teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut and then by 1870 at Portsmouth, Rhode Island at the Bristol Ferry School.

[4] Stowell served as president until his death 1916 at which point Bryant College completed its merger with Henry Jacobs' Rhode Island Commercial School.

In 1915 Stowell received an honorary degree from Brown University, and Stowell Hall on Bryant's Providence campus was named in his honor, but was sold to Brown University in 1969.

[6] In 2005 Stowell was inducted posthumously into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame .