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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, CHESTER COUNTY, PENN. FOUNDED 1856
Oldest institution for the higher education of Negro youth in the country, Founded by Rev. John M. Dickey, D.D., Presbyterian, with the thought of sending Negroes as
missionaries to Africa. President, Rev. John B. Rendall, D.D. In 1908, students, 197; teachers, 14; theological students, 53. The property includes 132 acres of land,
8 school buildings, and 10 residences for professors. Approximate amount of annual expenses, $50,000, secured from the Presbyterian churches and other friends.
Lincoln University. Chester
County. Pa.
Rev. John B. Rendall. D.D.. President
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, located in Chester County. Pa., fortyfive
miles from Philadelphia, is the oldest institution in the
United State for the higher education of the Negro.
In 1849, while James L. Mackey was
being ordained at New London, Conn., •
as a missionary to Mrica, Rev. Dr. John
Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian leader
of Philadelphia, who offered the ordaining
prayer, had a vision "of a
school of the prophets where mi ionarie
should be trained and where
Mrica's sons should be educated to
carry the gospel to the benighted and
needy."
Three years later Dr. Dickey began
J. B. Rendall to teach James R. Amo , who felt
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the call to go to Mrica. In 1853 the General Assembly of
the Pre byterian Church approved the request of the Jew
Castle, Pa., presbytery for the e tablishment of a chool for
the Christian training of youth of the colored race. In 1854 the
legislature of Pennsylvania granted a charter to Ashman Institute,
named after Jehendi Ashman, "reorganizer and savior of
the Colony of Liberia." A broan In titute entered upon it
formal work January 1, 1857, with 4 students, in a mall threestory
building. In 1866 the title was changed to "Lincoln
University," and in 1871 wa taken under the care of the
General As embly of the Pre:byterian Church and enrolled
among it theological seminaries. The collegiate department
i not under denominational control.
The property of Lincoln University con ists of one hundred
and thirty-two acre of land, on which are located ten fine
school buildings and ten residences for teachers.
The endowment is about $500,000 and the annual expenses
are $50,000, secured from endowment, students, the Presb\'te-
•
rian Board of Education, and the church.
It is a College and a Theological Seminary. Its charter provided
for the" scientific. classical and theologieal education of
