The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 231. COPLAND, Patrick, pioneer educator inAmerica. The first suggestion of a college in Amer-ica, whicli in 1693 found fruition in the charter ofWilliam and
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 231. COPLAND, Patrick, pioneer educator inAmerica. The first suggestion of a college in Amer-ica, whicli in 1693 found fruition in the charter ofWilliam and >Iary college, may be traced to anorder of the Virginia company of London, IS, 1618, for the planting of a university atHenrico, on James river. To no one was the subse-quent development of the project under greater obli-gations than to the Rev. Patrick Copland, who maybe justly considered as the pioneer of education inAmerica. In 1614 Copland was employed as achaplain in the service of the East India company,and he is known to have done good work in Indiafor several years in converting the native youth toChristianity, and training them in the knowledge ofthe English language. In 1621, during a voyagehomeward in the Royal James, he met with someships on their way to Virginia, and learned withdeep concern of the need of the colonists thereof churches and free schools. Quick to act, he col-lected at once from his fellow-pas
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