HEALD' S BUSINESS COLLEGE.

 

 

 

HEALD’S BUSINESS COLLEGE.  -- Among the many institutions that have kept pace with the wonderful progress of San Francisco is that of Heald's Business College.  Its development has been such that it is now recognized not only as the leading business training-school of the Pacific, but as one of the foremost in the United States.

 

Its history is interesting as showing the magnitude of natural growth under good direction.  The college was started on a small-scale by Mr. Edward P. Heald in Platt’s Hall, Montgomery street, in 1863.  The pioneer experiment immediately prospered, and from the date of its foundation to the present its record has been one of uninterrupted expansion and growth.  Its first removal was to Market street, where it remained for about six years.  The quarters soon proving too small, a portion of the upper floor of the building it now occupies was secured, and it opened there with some seventy pupils and four teachers.  At the present time in employees twenty teachers, and attendance ranges from 400 to 500 students, more than half of them come from places outside of the State, often from Oregon, Nevada, Washington and the Territories, and not infrequently from the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico and Central America.

 

It was one of the four business colleges in the United States that the Japanese Government instructed its commissioners of education to report upon.  Its list of graduates comprise a large number of the leading men of the coast, and it is not at all a rare occurrence for men graduated from it a quarter of a century ago to bring in their sons and daughters as students.  As an evidence of the esteem in which the college is held, it may be mentioned that Senator Stanford sent his son to it for a business education and that he was on its role shortly before the date of his untimely death.

 

Mr. Heald has visited every technological institution of repute in both Europe and America for the purpose of making himself conversant with the best method of practical education.  He is still at the head of the institution he founded, and takes an active part in its management.  Associated with him in this duty is Dr. Charles S. Haley.  This gentleman retired from the medical profession many years ago and since devoted his abilities to education, in which he has engaged before graduating as an Esculapian.  In 1889 he made a journey around the world, in part for pleasure but chiefly to enlarge his practical knowledge for educational purposes.

 

A monthly paper has been published by the college for nineteen years, and is the oldest educational journal west of Chicago.  It has a circulation of over 6,000 monthly, and is recognized as a leading exponent of practical education.

 

Source: "The Bay of San Francisco" (and Its Cities And Their Suburbs) Vol 1. Lewis Publishing Company 1892. Page 473.

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton.