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5 unusual facts about Samuel Finley


Log College

The known graduates include Charles Beatty, Samuel Blair, Samuel Finley, William Robinson, John Rowland, Charles Tennent, John Tennent, and William Tennent Jr.

Six months after the granting of Princeton's charter in October 1746, and shortly before classes started in May 1747, Log College alumni Samuel Blair, Samuel Finley, and William Tennent, Jr., along with adherents Gilbert Tennent and Richard Treat, accepted election as Princeton trustees.

Samuel Finley

Finley also was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glasgow.

The Rev. Samuel Finley (1763 DD University of Glasgow (honorary); July 2, 1715 – July 17, 1766), Evangelical (Presbyterian, "New Light") preacher and academic, he founded the West Nottingham Academy, and was the fifth president and an original trustee of the College of New Jersey (later known as Princeton University) from 1761 until 1766.

was torn down his body was moved, and his original tombstone was relocated and could as of 1988 be found imbedded in the wall of a lobby of a building on the North side of Rittenhouse Square.



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