James Manning (minister)

James Manning was an American Baptist minister, educator and legislator from Providence, Rhode Island best known for being the first president of Brown University and one of its most involved founders. He was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. At the age of 18, he attended the Hopewell Academy in Hopewell, New Jersey under the direction of Reverend Isaac Eaton in preparation for his religious studies. In 1762, he graduated from the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University. At Princeton, Manning studied under president Samuel Finley who served under a board of trustees that declared, Our idea is to send into the World good Scholars and useful members of Society. One of the 130 graduates Finley sent out during his fiveyear presidency was, notably, the Rev. James Manning. He married Margaret Stites in the year of his graduation from Princeton and a few weeks after the marriage he was publicly ordained by the Scotch Plains, New Jersey Baptist Church.

NA

Source: Wikipedia