Jehudi Ashmun

Colonial agent, writer, and philanthropist, born in Champlain, New York, USA. He studied at the University of Vermont (1816), and entered the Congregational ministry, becoming involved in various educational and journalistic enterprises. In 1822 he sailed from Baltimore to Liberia with a boatload of returning African-American slaves. There he held off an attack by native chiefs and survived the fever that killed his wife. He stayed on and was appointed agent to the American Colonization Society (1824–8), writing The History of the American Colony in Liberia from December 1821 to 1823.

Jehudi Ashmun (April 21, 1794 – August 25, 1828) was a religious leader and social reformer born in Champlain, New York. Jehudi Ashmun was the United States representative to Liberia in 1822. Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) was originally Chartered as Ashmun Institute in 1854 in honor of Jehudi Ashmun.