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James Irvine, A.M., 1793-1835
Second President of Ohio University, 1822-1824
After extensive searches, no portrait or signature of Irvine has ever been found.
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After extensive searches, no portrait or signature of Irvine has ever been found.
Native of New York and educated at Union College, Professor
Irvine moved to the presidency from his professorship of
mathematics at the University which he had assumed the previous
year. He had been on his way to a position in Kentucky when,
passing through Athens, he was asked to take a position at the
University. Only a year into his tenure he took a leave on
account of ill health. He was presiding when Rufus Putnam, one
of the founders of the University, donated a valuable collection
of books and it was decided admonition of students for
disciplinary problems was not working so fines, not to exceed
five dollars, were instituted. In 1823 the Trustees recommended
the establishment of a medical college and a botanical garden:
the former had to wait over 150 years and the latter no longer
exists. Irvine never returned, finally resigning the presidency
in 1824.
He continued in the ministry following retirement only reaching 43 by the time he died. (No portrait or signature is known to exist of Irvine.)
| Dick Piccard revised this file (http://www.ohiou.edu/athens/history/people/irvine.html) on January 25, 2006. |
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