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John Pym Carter

American minister, educator, and president of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania


John Pym Carter
John Pym Carter

John Pym Carter was an American Presbyterian minister and educator who served as the second president of the Ashmun Institute, which became Lincoln University, a historically black university in Oxford, Pennsylvania. He served from October 8, 1856, to 1861. He concurrently served as the sole faculty member and instructor, providing a general college education as well as seminary training to prepare his students for Presbyterian ordination and missionary work.

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