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Blackstone School of Law of Chicago (Blackstone College of Law) was an outgrowth of the Sprague University of Correspondence Instruction, founded in 18?? by William Cyrus Sprague (1850–1922), author and founder of The Spraque Publishing Co. of Detroit, publisher of The American Boy.^[a] The school was named after William Blackstone (1723–1780), an English judge. Sprague was the son of William Peter Sprague (1827–1899), a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.^[1]

The Blackstone College if Law, Inc., an Illinois entity, was in 1954 ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to stop representing itself as a degree-granting institution.

History

The impetus for the name was drawn from Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England, published in four volumes, with the first ...... Detroit, The Sprague Publishing Co. [1897]. 37 p ...

Sprague Publishing Co. selected personnel

Griffith Ogden Ellis

Officers and faculty

Blackstone Institute, Inc.

Eugene Allen Gilmore (1871–1953)
William Charles Wermuth

Provenance

1925: Industrial Extension Institute, Inc., a New York corporation, was in receivership. One of the receivers was William F. Scott. Scott and the other receiver sold the assets of the institute to Ava E. Stern on July 9, 1925, for $6,000. Shortly thereafter, on September 26, 1925, Stern sold it to William F. Scott for $1. Scott then sold the assets to Harold R. Lister for $39,795.36.^[2]

Industrial Extension Institute, Inc.

1919

Nicholas Thiel Ficker, President
Jervis R. Harbeck, Vice President
Charles A. Brockway, Treasurer

Directors: Nicholas Thiel Ficker, Jervis R. Harbeck, Charles R. Brockway, Charles E. Funk, Alwin (Alvin) von Auw (born June 1863),

Nicholas Thiel Ficker

Nicholas Thiel Ficker (1885–1943) was an industrial engineer.

1913: President, Factory Methods Company
1912–1913: Head, Nicholas T. Ficker & Co., accountants and engineers
1918–1919: President, Ficker Recording Machine Company
1923: President, Industrial Extension Institute, Inc.

Harold Reid Lister, B.A., L.L.D. (1892–1962)

President, Treasurer, and General Manager of Blackstone Institute, Inc., which offers correspondence instructional materials on law.
Chairman of the Board, Transportation Law Institute, which publishes a reference book for commercial attorneys and industrial traffic managers
Member of the Ethics Committee of the National Home Study Council whose function is to ensure that the code of business ethics if observed by all member schools

History

Notes and references

Notes

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Blackstone Law School was founded in Chicago by William C. Sprague of Spraque Publishing Co. in Detroit. Blackstone graduates:
1. LLB 1970: John Calhoun, Director of Media Relations under President Ford, member of Ford's White House Staff

References

^ Federal Trade Commission Decisions, Syllabus 50 P. T. G., "In the Matter of Blackstone College of Law, Inc., et al.," Decision and Opinion in Regard to the Alleged Violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, Docket 5906, Complaint July 18, 1951—Decision June 29, 1954, p. 1070
^ William F. Scott (plaintiff, respondent) vs. Harold R. Lister (defendant, appellant), Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, Vol. 6537

[Blackstone-info-1] Blackstone Law School was founded in Chicago by William C. Sprague of Spraque Publishing Co. in Detroit. Blackstone graduates:
LLB 1970: John Calhoun, Director of Media Relations under President Ford, member of Ford's White House Staff

[2] LLB 1970: John Calhoun, Director of Media Relations under President Ford, member of Ford's White House Staff

[3] LLB 1970: John Calhoun, Director of Media Relations under President Ford, member of Ford's White House Staff

[FTC_1954_5906-2] Federal Trade Commission Decisions, Syllabus 50 P. T. G., "In the Matter of Blackstone College of Law, Inc., et al.," Decision and Opinion in Regard to the Alleged Violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act, Docket 5906, Complaint July 18, 1951—Decision June 29, 1954, p. 1070

[Scott-v-Lister_1931-3] William F. Scott (plaintiff, respondent) vs. Harold R. Lister (defendant, appellant), Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court, First Judicial Department, Vol. 6537

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