Edward Austin Sheldon

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{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Drsheldon.JPG

| name = Edward Austin Sheldon

| caption =

| order = 1st President of

| office = State University of New York at Oswego

| term_start = 1861

| term_end = 1897

| predecessor =

| successor = I. B. Poucher

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1823|10|4|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Perry Center, New York

| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1897|8|26|1823|10|4}}

| death_place = Oswego, New York

| alma_mater = Hamilton College

| residence = Oswego, New York

| profession = Educator

| spouse = Frances Stiles Sheldon

| children = Mary Sheldon Barnes

| signature = Signature of Edward Austin Sheldon (1823–1897).png

}}

Edward Austin Sheldon (October 4, 1823 – August 26, 1897) was an American educator, and the founding president of the State University of New York at Oswego (then Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School). He also served as superintendent of schools for the cities of Syracuse, New York and Oswego, New York. Sheldon introduced the principles and teachings of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi into American education through the Oswego Movement.Oswego: Fountainhead of Teacher Education, Dorothy Rogers, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., New York, 1961 A statute of Sheldon instructing a child was dedicated at the New York State Capitol in January 1900 during a ceremony attended by Governor Theodore Roosevelt and United States Commissioner of Education William Torey Harris.{{cite news |last1=Groom |first1=Debra J. |title=SUNY Oswego founder Edward Austin Sheldon commemorated with statue; Oswego timeline |url=https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/08/suny_oswego_founder_edward_aus.html |access-date=17 June 2025 |work=The Post-Standard |date=28 August 2011 |language=en}} It remained there until 1922 and was later installed on Oswego's campus.{{cite magazine |last1=Reed |first1=Michelle |issue=78 |title=Sheldon Statue |url=https://magazine.oswego.edu/2011/08/23/no-78-sheldon-statue/ |access-date=17 June 2025 |work=Oswego Alumni Magazine |date=23 August 2011}} His daughter was educator Mary Sheldon Barnes.