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John Jay Shipherd (March 28, 1802 – September 16, 1844) was an American clergyman who co-founded Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1833 with Philo Penfield Stewart. In 1844, Shipherd also founded Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan .
John J. Shipherd and 8 immigrant families [2] 1833 1843 Community based on Communal ownership of property [2] Brook Farm: Massachusetts George Ripley Sophia Ripley: 1841 1846 A Transcendent community. Transcendentalism is a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. North American Phalanx: New Jersey Charles Sears 1841 1856
John J. Shipherd House: John J. Shipherd House: August 13, 1979 : Northwestern corner of East Ave. and 8th St. Elyria: 104: Charles William and Anna Smith House: Charles William and Anna Smith House: January 25, 1997
The other rock, known as the "Founders Boulder", was found in Erie County and has a plaque that reads "In Memory of John J. Shipherd, Philo P. Stewart, Dedicated June 17, 1933." [5] However, both plaques have been covered by hundreds of layers of paint by students and town residents and are currently invisible. The rocks first started their ...
On February 24, 1844, the Reverend John J. "Father" Shipherd and thirty-nine followers arrived by ox-cart on this wilderness hilltop, driving their herds before them. They felt God had directed them to this oak grove for the purpose of founding a coeducational Christian college open to students of all races.
[14]: 12 Oberlin founder John Jay Shipherd was an admirer of Finney, and visited him in Rochester, New York, when en route to Ohio for the first time. Finney invited Shipherd to stay with him as an assistant, but Shipherd "felt that he had his own important part to play in bringing on the millennium, God's triumphant reign on Earth.
This was the point at which the former Lane students came into contact with John J. Shipherd, founder of the new Oberlin Collegiate Institute, "a college in name only" that had been founded the previous year (1833). "The former Lane students literally took possession of the embryo institution."
Two participants in the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue—Lewis Sheridan Leary and John A. Copeland, along with Oberlin resident Shields Green—went on to join John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Leary was killed during the attack. Copeland and Green were captured and tried along with John Brown. They were convicted of treason and ...