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John Goucher was born on June 7, 1845, at Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Dr. John and Eleanor ( Townsend) Goucher.
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John Goucher was born on June 7, 1845, at Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Dr. John and Eleanor ( Townsend) Goucher.
Graduating from Dickinson College in 1868, Goucher received several offers to enter business in Pittsburgh, where he had spent much of his early life. These he declined, and in 1869, entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in the Baltimore Conference.
During the twenty-one years of the active pastorate that followed, Goucher was conspicuous in the building of fifteen churches, including the Harlem Park, the Strawbridge, and the First Church of Baltimore.
His role in the history of the Woman’s College has been subject to two widely entertained misapprehensions: that he was the founder of the college and that he was its first president. The idea of a college for women seems to have been due to John B. Van Meter and was adopted in March 1883 by the Baltimore Conference to celebrate the centennial of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America.
Contributions were received from many sources, but it was through the gifts of Henry Shirk and especially of Goucher, whose early donations totaled $75, 000, that the college was made possible. It was opened in 1888 under the presidency of William H. Hopkins, who served until September 1, 1890, when Goucher assumed the duties.
He succeeded in gathering an able faculty, in protecting its more liberal members from the sometimes narrow views of the Baltimore Conference, and in building up the physical equipment of the college to meet the needs of its rapid growth.
Goucher’s most notable work was in the Woman’s College of Baltimore (now Goucher College) and in the vast system of Methodist schools and missions in the Far E. In 1910, in recognition of the services of Goucher and his wife to the institution, the trustees changed its name to Goucher College. At one time, his own funds maintained 120 primary vernacular schools in India. Among his many efforts the most important was the furthering of higher education in China and Japan; he was especially interested in the Anglo-Japa- nese Methodist College in Tokio, to which he made substantial donations. The last of these, and the most substantial, comprised lectures delivered on the Nathan Graves Foundation at Syracuse University.
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Throughout his long career, Goucher was vitally interested in the Methodist schools and missions of the Far East.
As a president, Goucher had definite faults. He was deficient in financial abilities. He undertook an extensive building program while neglecting the endowment funds. This lack of financial vision was aggravated by the fact that he was often an absentee president.
These long and frequent absences were necessitated by his educational projects in Europe and the Far East.
Himself enthusiastic and generous, he was convinced that such a noble work as the college would never lack the necessary funds. This conviction, however, could do little to balance the annual budgets, with the result that when he resigned the presidency in 1908 the college was virtually bankrupt.
Large sums were spent in educational efforts in Korea and West China. It was estimated in 1904 that he had already spent a quarter of a million dollars for foreign missions.
On December 24, 1877, Goucher married Mary Cecelia Fisher, daughter of an old Maryland family of Pikesville, whose wealth made possible the numerous Goucher philanthropies.
25 January 1814 - 21 July 1892
25 January 1814 - 21 July 1882
22 September 1836 - 21 September 1925
24 January 1843 - 23 January 1912
22 March 1850 - 1902
1882 - 1943
