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ya PAINTED BY R. STREET ENGD. BY JOHN SARTAIN Rev. Gideon Blackburn, D.D. 3 ) o 1772 - 1838 Blackburn College is named for the Reverend Gideon Blackburn, a Presbyterian min- ister whose missionary activity was to provide education in the American wilder- ness. One such accomplishment was to organize Presbyterian Churches and local residents to deed 80 acres on the edge of Carlinville for the establishment of an institution of higher learning. In-1837 the land was deeded to an independent Board of Trustees providing Blackburn with a campus. Dr. Blackburn died August 23, 1838 and was buried in the Goode graveyard in Carlinville.
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GIDEON BLACKBURN, THE MAN The following excerpts are from a letter written by the Reverend J.W. Hall, D.D., Dayton, Ohio, December 20, 1848. Gideon Blackburn had passed away ten years previous on August 23, 1838. The letter is from the Archives, Blackburn College. In his person, Dr. Blackburn was much above the ordinary stature, being about six feet.one or two inches high. He was not fleshy, but ordinarily of a habit rather full than lean. He had a slight stoop of the shoulders; and when in motion you might perceive that he was somewhat lame. His lameness was occasioned by a twofold cause-by a fracture of the thigh bone in early life, which was badly set, and by a white swelling afterwards on the same limb, from which he suffered dreadful pain for many months .... The features of Dr. Blackburn were strongly marked. He had a high and somewhat receding forehead-eyebrows prominent but smooth-eyes large, full, light blue or rather grayish. His nose was large, but not heavy, and slightly aquiline. His lips were thin, finely chiseled, and greatly compressed, and the corners of his mouth being slightly elevated, he usually looked as one wearing a benignant smile. His chin was broad and prominent, giving the aspect of solidity and firmness to the countenance. His complexion was ruddy and healthful. His head was large, and when he was a young man, was clothed with a heavy suit of glossy black hair-in his latter years his hair became perfectly white, and being parted on the crown of his head, it hung in large graceful curls over the back part of his neck, and almost to his shoulders, which added to his fair complexion and fine face, gave him a most venerable and even majestic appearance. It was his eye, however, that was the most striking feature in his whole countenance. Calm, mild, benevolent and even somewhat languid in its ordinary expression, it was capable of outshadowing every thought, feeling, and emotion or passion of his soul, without effort. In his manners, Dr. Blackburn was of the old school-easy, gentle, mild, courteous, affable, but always dignified. There was even something of reserve, if not distance, in his manners, and that too in his own family, and among his most intimate friends. No one could treat him with familiarity. The sentiment inspired by his presence was reverence rather than love, or perhaps I should say it was reverence and love. His dignity was not assumed or laid aside at pleasure. He could not have parted with it, if he had tried. In the family, and in social life, the Doctor was according to the direction of Paul, “blameless, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, one that ruled well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity.” 2 A'finished scholar he was not. Latin he read with facility; Greek indifferently; of Hebrew he knew nothing or next to nothing. His knowledge of the physical sciences was general rather than minute. Of Mathematics, beyond the simplest elements of Algebra and Geometry, it is believed that he knew nothing. History, Geography, Chronology, Logic, Rhetoric, Mental and Moral Philosophy-in these he excelled, and his Lectures on Rhetoric and his illustrations in the art of speaking, his pupils will never forget.
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