Joseph Denison
Deceased Person
1815 – 1900
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Who was Joseph Denison?
Joseph J. Denison was a Methodist pastor; the first President of Kansas State University; and a founder of Manhattan, Kansas, having volunteered to go to Kansas Territory with the New England Emigrant Aid Company in 1855 to fight against the extension of slavery.
Denison was born in Bernardston, Massachusetts and raised in Colrain, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1840, and then served as a Methodist pastor in Massachusetts until 1855.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1815
Bernardston - Education
- Wesleyan University
- Employment
- Kansas State University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Feb 19, 1900
Manhattan
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on July 23, 2013
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