John Monteith (minister)
(1788-1868)
American Presbyterian minister, educator and abolitionist
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Reverend John Monteith (August 5, 1788 – April 5, 1868) was a Presbyterian minister, educator, abolitionist and a founding father of the University of Michigan, formerly known as University of Michigania or the Catholepistemiad. Monteith served as president of the university from 1817 through 1821. During his five years in Detroit, he also served as the city's first librarian, and founded the first Protestant church in Detroit and the first Presbyterian church in what is now the State of Michigan.
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5 August 1788 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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5 April 1868 (aged 79) Elyria, Ohio
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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