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Gideon Blackburn (August 27, 1772 – August 23, 1838) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, evangelist, educator and missionary to Cherokee and Creek nations, and college president. He raised funds for new colleges and founded numerous congregations and churches in areas of new western settlement in Tennessee and Kentucky .
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Clarksville was incorporated in 1784 and by the early eighteenth century was a village of forty families. Dr. Gideon Blackburn, an itinerant Presbyterian minister, preached outdoors in a place south of Clarksville called Tompkins Grove. He organized First Presbyterian Church on May 25, 1822.
John Gloucester arrived with Gideon Blackburn in Philadelphia in 1807. He began preaching at a house on Gaskill Street. His congregation grew and eventually moved to the corner of 7th and Shippen (now Bainbridge) Streets. The First African Presbyterian Church was founded in 1807 [3] and built on this spot in May 1811.
Blackburn is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, [ 1 ] its frequency was highest in Yorkshire , followed by Cumberland , Lancashire , Lincolnshire , Northumberland , County Durham and Norfolk .
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Blackburn College was established in 1837 and named for the Rev. Gideon Blackburn, a Presbyterian minister who helped raise funds for the school. [4] By 1855, instruction began at the college. Within two years (1857), the school was chartered as "Blackburn Theological Seminary", [4] and the first unit of University Hall was erected. [4]
The elder Ross insisted that John also receive a rigorous classical education. After being educated at home, Ross pursued higher studies with the Reverend Gideon Blackburn, who established two schools in southeast Tennessee for Cherokee children. Classes were in English and students were mostly of mixed race, like Ross.