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Stephen Olin
American clergyman and academic

Stephen Olin

Stephen Olin
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Intro American clergyman and academic
Was Academic Cleric
From United States of America
Field Education Religion
Gender male
Birth 2 March 1797, Leicester
Death 15 August 1851, Middletown (aged 54 years)
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Biography

Stephen Olin (March 2, 1797 – August 15, 1851) was an American educator and minister. He graduated Middlebury College in 1820 and was ordained into the Methodist Episcopal Church while teaching at the Tabernacle Academy in South Carolina and served a pastorate in Charleston. He became professor of belle-lettres at the University of Georgia in 1827. He was the first President of Randolph Macon College (1834–1837) and later was president of Wesleyan University (1839–1851).
In 1844, at the general conference of the Methodists, Olin called on his friend, Bishop James Andrew, to resign his office, on the grounds the latter owned slaves. Olin himself was criticized because his first wife (Mary E. Bostwick, whom he married in 1827) had owned slaves.

Publications

Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land 1844 Harper, New York.
Early piety, the basis of elevated character: a discourse to the graduating class of Wesleyan University 1851 Lane & Scott.
The Works of Stephen Olin (1852) and Greece and the Golden Horn (1854) were edited by his second wife, Julia Matilda Olin, and published posthumously.
College Life: Its Theory and Practice 1867, Harper, New York.

The Bronx, New York neighborhood of Olinville, began as two towns named for him (founded in 1852).

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