Lincoln University, PA

Lincoln University is a public state-related historically black university in Lower Oxford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as the private Ashmun Institute in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972. Lincoln is also recognized as the first college-degree-granting HBCU in the country. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Lincoln University, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Lincoln University, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. The university has a second location in University City, Philadelphia. In 1854, John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute, later named Lincoln University, in Hinsonville, Pennsylvania. John Miller Dickey was the first president of the college.