Jacob Lindley Explained

Jacob Lindley (June 13, 1774 – January 29, 1857) was the first president of Ohio University, between 1809 and 1822.

Life

Lindley was educated at Thaddeus Dod's log college (later Jefferson College)^[1] and College of New Jersey.^[2]

He was one of the founders of the Franklin Literary Society at Jefferson College.^[3]

Jacob and Hannah's eldest child was Daniel Lindley who was born in Pennsylvania on August 24, 1801. He was a missionary in South Africa. He and his wife Lucy founded the Inanda Seminary School in 1869. Lindley was pastor to the Voortrekkers in the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State.^[4]

Book: Coleman, Helen Turnbull Waite. Banners in the Wilderness: The Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1956. 11 . 2191890.
http://www.ohio.edu/athens/history/people/lindley.html Jacob Lindley, A.M., D.D., 1774-1857
Book: McClelland, W.C.. A History of Literary Societies at Washington & Jefferson College. https://books.google.com/books?id=t1QyAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 . George H. Buchanan and Company. The Centennial Celebration of the Chartering of Jefferson College in 1802. 1903 . Philadelphia. 111–132.
Web site: Daniel Lindley. Dictionary of African Christian Biography. 10 August 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130531004908/http://dacb.org/stories/southafrica/lindley_daniel.html. 31 May 2013.