John Miller Dickey
(1806-1878)
American minister, educator, and president of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania
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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.
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15 December 1806 Oxford, Pennsylvania
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2 March 1878 (aged 71)
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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