John Miller Dickey
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Rev. John Miller Dickey, (December 15, 1806 — March 2, 1878) a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute in 1854, later named Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
. They named it after Jehudi Ashmun
, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education of African Americans, who had few opportunities.
Dr. John Miller Dickey was the first president of the college (1854–1856). He encouraged some of his first students: James Ralston Amos (1826–1864), his brother Thomas Henry Amos (1825–1869), and Armistead Hutchinson Miller (1829/30-1865), to support the establishment of Liberia as a colony for African Americans. Each of the men became ordained ministers.
John Miller Dickey was born in Oxford, Pennsylvania and educated from Dickinson College
(Carlisle College)- class of 1824.
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
Lincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. It is located near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies in the City of Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides...
after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
. They named it after Jehudi Ashmun
Jehudi Ashmun
Jehudi Ashmun was a religious leader and social reformer who became involved in the American Colonization Society...
, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education of African Americans, who had few opportunities.
Dr. John Miller Dickey was the first president of the college (1854–1856). He encouraged some of his first students: James Ralston Amos (1826–1864), his brother Thomas Henry Amos (1825–1869), and Armistead Hutchinson Miller (1829/30-1865), to support the establishment of Liberia as a colony for African Americans. Each of the men became ordained ministers.
John Miller Dickey was born in Oxford, Pennsylvania and educated from Dickinson College
Dickinson College
Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...
(Carlisle College)- class of 1824.