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Jonathan Blanchard was born on January 19, 1811, in the little town of Rockingham, Vermont, United States, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Lovel) Blanchard, of pure English ancestry.
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Jonathan Blanchard was born on January 19, 1811, in the little town of Rockingham, Vermont, United States, the son of Jonathan and Mary (Lovel) Blanchard, of pure English ancestry.
Blanchard's early education was obtained in the common schools of the town and from private instructors. He entered Middlebury College at the age of seventeen, graduating in 1832, when he was twenty-one years old. Later he studied at Andover and at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati.
For two years Blanchard taught at Plattsburg Academy. In Cincinnati he was ordained pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church in September 1838. From the beginning Blanchard was a strong temperance advocate and in 1834, at the age of twenty-three, he became a violent abolitionist. In 1843 he attended the World's Antislavery Convention in London and was elected American vicepresident of that body. On his return from England he delivered a series of spirited lectures on the wrongs of Ireland. In spite of the fact that Cincinnati was almost as strongly pro-slavery as any southern community, he never hesitated to attack that institution in sermons, in articles, and in private conversation.
Almost as violent was his hatred of secret societies and especially of the Masonic order. This, too, Blanchard attacked in every way and at every opportunity. As the Civil War approached he more and more coupled Masonry and slavery and declared that the Masonic order was concerned in the attempt at disunion. During his Cincinnati pastorate he founded and edited a church paper later known as the Herald and Presbyter.
In 1845 he was elected president of Knox College, at Galesburg, Illinois, and held that position until 1857. Under his administration the financial condition of the college was greatly improved and the number of students practically doubled. Blanchard's outspoken attitude on many subjects, however, brought him into frequent controversies, and the later years of his administration were full of strife and difficulty. After resigning the presidency he served for a year as acting president and teacher, at the same time conducting the Christian Era which he had founded. In 1860 he took the presidency of Wheaton College, at Wheaton, Illinois. He became president emeritus in 1882 and died on May 14, 1892.
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Blanchard pastored the Sixth Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati from 1838 until becoming president of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois in 1845.
Blanchard was a founding member of National Christian Association and a member of Anti-Masonic party.
Blanchard was married in 1838 to Mary Avery Bent, by whom he had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. One son, Charles Albert, succeeded his father as president of Wheaton College, and died on December 20, 1925.