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Jehudi Ashmun (April 21, 1794 – August 25, 1828) was an American religious leader and social reformer from New England who helped lead efforts by the American Colonization Society to "repatriate" African Americans to a colony in West Africa.
Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828) Acting Colonial Agent: 8 August 1822 2 April 1823 237 days White (3) Elijah Johnson (1789–1849) Acting Colonial Agent: 2 April 1823 14 August 1823 134 days Black (4) Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828) Acting Colonial Agent: 14 August 1823 15 August 1824 1 year, 1 day White Colony of Liberia (4) Jehudi Ashmun (1794–1828 ...
In early 1828, the Millsburg settlement was established in an agreement between Colonial Agent Jehudi Ashmun and Dei chiefs. In February 1828, Millsburg was settled by a small trading company of Americo-Liberian emigrants. [3] [4] It was established on the north bank of the St. Paul River. [5]
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. They named the school after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education and religious training of ...
Gurley also wrote a biography, Life of Jehudi Ashmun (1835), about the secretary of the Society who served as an early governor of the colony. He reported his Mission to England for the American Colonization Society (1841), and wrote an encomium, the Life and Eloquence of Reverend Sylvester Larned (1844). In his biography of Ashmun (1835 ...
Son of Eli P. Ashmun; George Parish Ashmun, doctor and state senator in Ohio who served in the Union Army and served as mayor of Hudson, Ohio; Jehudi Ashmun (April 21, 1794 – August 25, 1828), religious leader and social reformer in New England; Margaret Ashmun (July 10, 1875 – March 15, 1940), writer from Wisconsin
In 1854, John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute, later named Lincoln University, in Hinsonville, Pennsylvania. 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 ...
Margaret Ashmun was born in Rural, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, the daughter of Claude “Sam” Ashmun and Rachel Jane Smith. Jehudi Ashmun was Margaret's great uncle. . Margaret was a graduate of Stevens Point College and received her bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1904, and her M.A.