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Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university (HBCU) near Oxford, Pennsylvania.Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972 and is the second HBCU in the state, after Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. [5]
Nearly a century after his death, a British history of Liberia called Ashmun "one of the most remarkable men who have ever given their lives in the service of Africa and the African." [5] Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania, was originally chartered in 1854 as Ashmun Institute in his honor.
John Miller Dickey (December 15, 1806 – March 2, 1878) [1] was an American Presbyterian minister. He and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute on May 24, 1854, which was renamed Lincoln University in 1866 following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
John Pym Carter (1811 – January 6, 1892) [1] was an American Presbyterian minister and educator who served as the second president of the Ashmun Institute, which became Lincoln University, a historically black university in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He served from October 8, 1856, to 1861.
Lincoln University: Chester County: Pennsylvania: 1854 Public The first degree-granting HBCU. Founded as "Ashmun Institute" Yes Lincoln University of Missouri: Jefferson City: Missouri: 1866 Public Founded as "Lincoln Institute" [13] Yes Livingstone College: Salisbury: North Carolina: 1879 Private [i] Founded as "Zion Wesley Institute" Yes
Just 30 miles (50 kilometers) from Lincoln University, anti-racism protests erupted at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus in 2015, forcing that school’s president to resign.
Rendall became president of the Ashmun Institute, later renamed Lincoln University after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. [4] [2] He lived on campus at the University. [1] Upon retirement in 1906, he was the longest serving university president in the world, having served for forty-one years.
Ashmun is a surname that may refer to: Eli P. Ashmun (1770–1819), Massachusetts State Representative 1803–04, Massachusetts State Senator 1808–10, Massachusetts Governor's Councilman 1816, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1816–18.