About Saint Lawrence University

St. Lawrence University is a private militant arts literary in the village of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. It has in the region of 2,400 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split amid male and female.

Though St. Lawrence today is non-denominational, it was founded in 1856 by leaders of the Universalist Church, who were seeking to pronounce a seminary west of New England and were energetically courted by the citizens of Canton. The church in this area did not place the moot in Canton, however, as they felt students might be exposed to too much “excitement” within the village limits in 1856. The denomination, which has since merged bearing in mind the Unitarian faith, was share of the objector wing of Protestantism, championing such ideas as vital thinking and gender equality—attributes that surfaced in the further Theological School of St. Lawrence University, which was innovative in its teaching philosophy and coeducational from the beginning.

Canton is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States formerly belonging to six Native American nations within the Iroquois Confederacy. The population was 10,995 at the 2010 census. The town contains two villages: one then named Canton, the further named Rensselaer Falls. The town is named after the great port of Canton (now named Guangzhou) in China. Canton is the home of St. Lawrence University and SUNY Canton. Canton Central School District is centered in the village of Canton.