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About Rev. Philip Lindsley, DD
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Philip Lindsley (1786 – 1855) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and classicist. He served as the acting president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from 1822 to 1824, and as the first president of the now-defunct University of Nashville from 1824 to 1850.
Early life
Philip Lindsley was born in 1786 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. He was educated in private academies and graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.
Career
He started teaching Latin and Greek at Princeton University in 1808. By 1813, he became Professor of Languages, Librarian, Inspector (Dean), and secretary of the Board of Trustees. He then served as its Vice President from 1817 to 1822, and as its Acting President from 1822 to 1824. However, he declined its presidency, as well as the presidencies of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
In December 1824, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to take up the presidency of Cumberland College. Among his first acts as president was to request that its name be changed to the University of Nashville, a change that took effect about a year after his arrival. He hired respected scholars as faculty in fields including classics, foreign languages, mathematics, and geology. At the same time, he actively recruited students. He also suggested starting a medical school.
He resigned his position in 1850, when the university suspended operations as a result of the cholera epidemic which led to low enrollment and to financial difficulties. His son, John Berrien Lindsley, became the university's president when it reopened in 1855.
After leaving the University of Nashville, he taught Ecclesiastical Polity and Biblical Archaeology at New Albany Theological Seminary in New Albany, Indiana (now the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago).
His ideas and ambitions regarding education had a lasting impact. He promoted the Nashville city slogan "Athens of the South", a sobriquet coined by Leroy J. Halsey (1812-1896) that reflected his goal of making the University of Nashville into a nationally recognized institution. He was an advocate for better education at all levels, becoming one of the first academics to urge the formal training of school teachers in normal schools. He saw education as, "a great equalizer, a special right for the poor." Additionally, in an essay entitled Thoughts on Slavery, he wrote, "Our slaves must be emancipated." In the 1830s he published a pamphlet that argued that all children should be offered a broad academic education, including Greek, Latin, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geography, and English.
Personal life
He married Margaret Lawrence Lindsley, the daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, who was New York Attorney General from 1792 to 1795. The couple had three sons:
Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley (1814–1885), who served as a member of the Tennessee Senate.
Nathaniel Lawrence Lindsley (1816–1868).
John Berrien Lindsley (1822–1897). He married Sarah McGavock Lindsley (1830–1903).
Margaret Lindsley died in 1845. In 1849, Lindsley married Mary Ann Myers, widow of Elias Myers, the founder of New Albany Theological Seminary.
Death
He died in 1855.
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Philip Lindsley, educator, was born near Morristown. N.J., Dec. 21, 1786; son of Isaac and Phoebe (Condit), grandson of Philip, great grandson of John, great2 grandson of John, great3 grandson of Francis, and great4 grandson of John Lindslay (or Linle), who came from England and settled in Branford, Conn., about 1640, his son Francis removing to Newark, N.J., in 1666. Philip Lindslay was prepared for college by the Rev. Robert Finley, of Basking Ridge, N.J., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B.,1804, A.M., 1807.
He taught at Morristown and Basking Ridge, N.J., 1804-07; and studied theology under Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, and was tutor in Latin and Greek at the College of New Jersey, 1807-09. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick, April 24, 1810, and preached in Long Island, Virginia and New England, 1810-12. He was senior tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1812-13; professor of languages, 1813-24, and librarian, inspector and secretary of the board of trustees, 1812-24. He was ordained by the presbytery of New Brunswick in 1817, and was elected vice-president of the College of New Jersey in the same year. In 1822, after the resignation of President Ashbel Green, he served as acting president for one year, and was elected president in 1823, but declined to serve. He three times refused the presidency of Transylvania university, Ky., between 1817 and 1839; the presidency of Washington college, Lexington, Va..in 1829; Dickinson college in 1829; the University of Alabama twice in 1830, and South Alabama college, Marion, Ala., 1837. In 1822 and 1823 he refused the presidency of Cumberland college, Nashville, Tenn., but accepted in 1824.
He was inaugurated Jan. 12, 1825, and on Nov. 27, 1826, the name was changed to the University of Nashville. He added to the library of 100 volumes, 1500 volumes, which he brought from New Jersey, and $6000 worth of apparatus for the laboratory obtained in Europe. He taught the classes in belles-lettres, political, moral and mental philosophy, and with his assistant, George W. McGeehe, and two tutors, conducted the university for several years, the faculty being afterward increased to four professors and three tutors. During his entire administration, he gave diplomas to only 410 graduates. He resigned in May, 1850, and was professor of ecclesiastical polity and biblical archaeology in the New Albany Theological seminary, Ind., 1850-53, when he resigned.
He was moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly held in Philadelphia in 1834, and a commissioner to that held in Nashville, Tenn., in May, 1855. He received the degree of D.D. from Dickinson college in 1823.
He was married, Oct. 14, 1813, to Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Lawrence, attorney-general of the state of New York; of their sons, John Berrien was chancellor of the University of Nashville, and Nathaniel Lawrence (born 1816, died 1868) was professor in Cumberland university, Tenn., 1844-50, and received the degree of LL.D. from there in 1859.
His first wife died in 1845, and he was married secondly in 1849 to Mary Ann (Silliman) Ayers, widow of Elias Ayers, who founded the New Albany Theological seminary, and daughter of Major William Silliman, of Fairfield, Conn. He was elected a member of the Northern Society of Antiquarians, Copenhagen, Denmark in 1837. He is the author of baccalaureate addresses and sermons, which were collected by Dr. Leroy J. Halsey and published in Dr. Lindsley's Complete Works and a Biography (3 vols., 1868). He died in Nashville, Tenn., May 23, 1855.
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Married Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence, 1813. Vice-president of the College of New Jersey, 1817. Acting president of Princeton, 1822. President of Cumberland College & changed name of school to University of Nashville, 1824.
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Dr. Lindsley came to Nashville in 1824 from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) to become president of Cumberland College. Two years later, under his leadership, the charter of the college was changed and the school became known as the University of Nashville. Dr. Lindsley remained the administrative head of the university for 25 years.
A cholera epidemic raged in the city in 1850 and the enrollment at the university fallen off considerably. Dr. Lindsley resigned that same year. Following his resignation, the school suspended operations. He died in 1855 and was buried in the City Cemetery. His remains were later moved to Mount Olivet.
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Rev. Philip Lindsley, DD's Timeline
| 1786 |
December 21, 1786
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Morristown, Morris, NJ
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| 1787 |
November 25, 1787
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First Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey
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| 1814 |
September 8, 1814
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Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
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September 11, 1816
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Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
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August 20, 1818
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| 1819 |
August 28, 1819
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Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
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| 1822 |
October 24, 1822
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Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
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| 1825 |
March 23, 1825
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Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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1825
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Davidson, Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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