Jacob Lindley (June 13, 1774 – January 29, 1857) was the first president of

Ohio University Ohio University is a Public university, public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confeder ...

, between 1809 and 1822.

Life

Lindley was educated at Thaddeus Dod's log college (later Jefferson College) and College of New Jersey. He was one of the founders of the Franklin Literary Society at Jefferson College. Jacob and Hannah's eldest child was

Daniel Lindley Daniel Lindley (August 24, 1801 – September 3, 1880) was an American missionary in South Africa. He and his wife Lucy founded the Inanda Seminary School in 1869. Lindley was pastor to the first Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State. He ...

who was born in Pennsylvania on 24 August 1801. He was a missionary in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. He and his wife Lucy founded the

Inanda Seminary School Inanda Seminary School is one of the oldest schools for girls in South Africa. It was founded in 1869 at Inanda, a settlement just over north of Durban, by Daniel and Lucy Lindley, an American missionary couple. History On 20 November 1834 Dani ...

in 1869. Lindley was pastor to the Voortrekkers in the first

Dutch Reformed Church The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...

in the

Orange Free State The Orange Free State ( nl, Oranje Vrijstaat; af, Oranje-Vrystaat;) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeat ...

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* Ohio University Presidents of Ohio University Washington & Jefferson College alumni 1774 births 1857 deaths {{US-academic-administrator-1770s-stub