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4 unusual facts about Philander Chase


Hannah More

More also donated money to Bishop Philander Chase for the founding of Kenyon College, and a portrait of her hangs there in Pierce Hall.

Jubilee College State Park

Jubilee College, and the frontier community that supported it, was founded in 1839 by Episcopal bishop Philander Chase.

Philander Chase

After removing himself and his family to the Valley of Peace in central Ohio, Chase spent the final years of his life founding Jubilee College and the surrounding frontier community near present-day Peoria, Illinois, financed by arduous fund-raising journeys overseas.

Upset by the lack of institutions of higher learning west of the Appalachian Mountains, Philander Chase undertook a difficult fund-raising campaign both in the United States and in England to raise money for such a school to be located in Ohio; the largest donation came from Jane, Dowager Countess of Rosse.


Cicero Stephens Hawks

He was the 44th bishop in the ECUSA, and was consecrated on October 20, 1844 by Bishops Philander Chase, Jackson Kemper, and Samuel Allen McCoskry.


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