Ashmun Institute opens in Chester County, Pennsylvania

The Ashmun Institute opens in rural Pennsylvania, the first institution of higher learning for African-Americans in the country. It is named for American Colonization Society pioneer Jehudi Ashmun and John Pym Carter serves as its first president. (By John Osborne)
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Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 184.
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    On April 4, 1866, the Ashmun Institute is renamed as Lincoln University.
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