The Ogden Military Academy was a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

 boarding school

Boarding school

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 and military academy

Military academy

A military academy or service academy is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the army, the navy, air force or coast guard, which normally provides education in a service environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.Three...

 that operated in Ogden, Utah

Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a...

 from 1889 to 1896.

History

The academy was opened on October 1, 1889 with 70 resident students and 50 cadets. The annual fee of $750 covered tuition

Tuition

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, room and board

Room and board

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. Some of the academic courses at the school were instructed by United States Army

United States Army

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 officers.

In 1896, the Utah State Industrial School

Utah State Industrial School

Utah State Industrial School was a juvenile reform school that operated in Ogden, Utah from October 31, 1889 to 1983.-History:In 1888, the Utah Territorial Assembly passed the Reform School bill, at the initiative of Salt Lake City attorney James Moyle, to help juvenile delinquents by teaching new...

 (later renamed Youth Development Center) took over the site until 1984, when Ogden–Weber Applied Technology College moved its campus to this location. The collected records of the academy from September 1890 to 1893 were transferred from the archives of Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 to the Stewart Library at Weber State University

Weber State University

Weber State University is a public university located in the city of Ogden in Weber County, Utah, USA. It was founded in 1889 and is a coeducational, publicly supported university offering professional, liberal arts and technical certificates, as well as associate, bachelor's and master's degrees...

.

Notable cadets

• Frederick C. Loofbourow
  Frederick C. Loofbourow
  Frederick Charles Loofbourow was a U.S. Representative from Utah.Born in Atlantic, Iowa, Loofbourow was educated in the common schools of Iowa.He moved with his parents to Utah in 1889....
  
   - U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
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   from Utah
  Utah
  Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
  
  

External links

• Map of Ogden Military Academy at J. Willard Marriott Library
  J. Willard Marriott Library
  J. Willard Marriott Library is the library of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was named for J. Willard Marriott, the founder of Marriott International. The library building is over and houses over 3 million volumes. The University of Utah Press is a division of the Marriott...
  
  , University of Utah
  University of Utah
  The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
  
  
• Picture of Ogden Military Academy Circa 1896