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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio, United States.Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. [6]
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.
L. L. Nunn, founder of Telluride Association and Deep Springs College Daniel Orr (1954), professor, writer and chair of economics at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Mary Jane Patterson (1862), educator and first African-American woman to receive a B.A (A.B.) degree
Oberlin (/ oʊ b ər l ɪ n /) is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located about 31 miles (50 km) southwest of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 8,555 at the 2020 census. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
Gibson's Bakery is a fifth-generation family business established in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1885. [5] [6] Half of the city's 8,000 residents are students or employees—3,000 and 1,000 respectively—of Oberlin College. [7]
Keep Cottage, also known as Keep Cooperative is an 1839 post-Victorian tudor revival mansion owned and maintained by Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, United States. Originally home to the Reverend John Keep, the house underwent a serious renovation in 1911 in order to transform it into a college dormitory. [1]
The Oberlin Collegiate Institute was built on 500 acres (2.0 km 2) of land, founded in 1833 and became Oberlin College in 1850. In 1867, two years after the Oberlin Conservatory's founding in 1865, the previously separate Oberlin Conservatory became incorporated with the college on a similar grant. [1]
Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston (February 5, 1837 – July 22, 1910) was an American educator and college administrator. She was the first female faculty member at Oberlin College, where she taught history, and the school's Dean of Women from 1870 to 1900.