History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881. p.1137

Prof. George S. Albee, distinguished as the President of the State Normal School at Oshkosh, is a native of New York, having been born in the town of Hunn in that state. He received the rudiments of an education in his native town, and having completed his preparatory course, matriculated at the State University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he subsequently graduated. Soon after, he was appointed a member of the Faculty of Rushford Academy, a well-known institute in Western New York, where he remained several years. Eleven years ago he founded and put in operation the school with which he has since been, and now is so prominently identified. Under his administration the institution has grown in popularity and influence; having for the past five years held one half the counties in Wisconsin tributary to it, as a source of education to students, and attracted a reputation which has been synonymous with the cause of learning in the Northwest.