Oren B. Cheney

Oren Burbank Cheney was the founder of Bates College. He was born in 1816 in Holderness, New Hampshire, to prominent abolitionist parents. Cheney was educated at the Parsonsfield Seminary (a Free Will Baptist school), Brown University, and Dartmouth College, graduating with the Class of 1839. Cheney had transferred from Brown to Dartmouth because he felt Dartmouth was more tolerant of abolitionism. Image File history File links Oren_B._Cheney. ... Image File history File links Oren_B._Cheney. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Holderness is a town located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Free Will Baptist Church - a group of churches that share a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will, based on the idea of general atonement. ... Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Dartmouth College, incorporated as Trustees of Dartmouth College, is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Influenced particularly by his mother, Cheney developed core beliefs in the causes of abolitionism and temperance, and these were unswerving values throughout his life as an abolitionist, teacher, Freewill Baptist minister, state legislator, editor of The Morning Star abolitionist paper and founder and president of Bates College. Cheney was a strong supporter of the Maine law as a state legislator in 1851. This poster depicting the horrific conditions on slave ships was influential in mobilizing public opinion against slavery in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Temperance may refer to: Temperance (virtue) Temperance movement Temperance (Tarot card) Temperance (band) See also Astrud Gilberto, for the album Temperance This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. ...

In 1855, Cheney founded the Maine State Seminary, the school that would become Bates College. The school reflected his personal values: it was open to all students regardless of race, gender, wealth or religion. In 1863, Cheney petitioned the Maine Legislature for a change in the charter to permit a collegiate course of study. He changed the school's name to Bates College in honor of Benjamin E. Bates, the industrialist and philanthropist who made substantial early gifts to Cheney's school. 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...

Cheney also played a major role in founding several other institutions such as Storer College, a school for freed slaves in West Virginia. Storer College was an historically black college located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. ...

Cheney served as Bates' president for 39 years, retiring at age 79.

Sources

Emeline Cheney. The Story of the Life and Work of Oren B. Cheney (Boston: Morning Star Publishing, 1907)