History; 1754-1904 : published in commemoration of the one hundred & fiftieth anniversary of the founding of King's College.
- Columbia University
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: In copyright
Credit: History; 1754-1904 : published in commemoration of the one hundred & fiftieth anniversary of the founding of King's College. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to this country as a missionary of the Society for the 1754 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and settled at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1723. His position was a very difficult and trying one. He was at the time the only minister of his faith in Connecticut and was subjected to misrepresentation and constant attack. The dignity of his character, his extensive acquirements, his devotion to the interests of religion and learning, his equable and benevolent temper, his unfailing courtesy and fairness, the representative position to which he soon attained by his relations with distinguished men of the Church in Eng- land and their confidence in him, and his acquaintance with men of learning and standing at home, won the trust and affection of his neighbors and caused him to be generally looked upon with the highest respect and re- gard. The University of Oxford, England, recognized his learning and labors by conferring upon him, in 1743, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. His reputation for sound judgment and scholarship, moral worth and piety without bigotry, became extended. When the College at Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania, was projected in 1749, he was solicited to take charge of it. The eminent Benjamin Franklin was especially urgent and visited him at Stratford to induce him to do so. “The Doctor [Johnson] had composed a compendium of Logic, including Metaphysics, and another of Ethics, for the better instruction of his two sons in those studies. These were printed together in an octavo volume in 1752, by Mr. Franklin, in Philadelphia, for the use of the College in that city then about to be erected, and of which Mr. Franklin, so justly celebrated throughout the learned world for his discoveries and improvements in electricity, was one of the most active promoters. On that occasion he frequently corresponded with Dr. Johnson, whom he esteemed one of the best judges of such matters in the country. He con- sulted him about the plan of education for the College,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28990717_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
