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Jonathan Maxcy was born on September 2, 1768 in Attleborough, Massachussets. He was the son of Levi and Ruth (Newell) Maxcy, and a descendant of Alexander Maxcy who moved to Attleborough from Gloucester, in 1721. Virgil was a younger brother of Jonathan. T
He was educated at an academy in Wrentham, Massachusetts, and then attended Brown University, from which he graduated in 1787.
After his graduation in 1787 he remained at the college as tutor, acting also as librarian. He was licensed to preach April 1, 1790, and succeeded James Manning, president of the college, as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence, being ordained September 8, 1791. While in charge of the church he also served the college as its first professor of divinity, and as a trustee. President Manning died suddenly in 1791, and Maxcy succeeded him in the presidency, resigning his pastorate and being elected president pro tempore in September 1792. It indicates the esteem in which he was held that at this time he had just passed his twenty-fourth birthday. In September 1797 he was chosen president. The college "flourished under his administration, and his fame was extended over every section of the Union". His chief service to the institution was his teaching of oratory and belles-lettres, and the widening of its fame by his personal reputation as an orator and divine. Naturally, in the state of Roger Williams and in a college the charter of which required that the trustees be of several denominations, Maxcy developed breadth of sympathy and a catholicity of view in religion. After having served Brown for fifteen years as tutor, professor, and president, he resigned in 1802 to become president of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Here he was remarkable for diligent and persevering labor. As a result, his health became impaired, and, wishing to live in a milder climate, he was glad to accept, in 1804, a call to become the first president of the University of South Carolina (then South Carolina College). Richard Furman, a strong advocate of education in South Carolina, recommended him for the position, since through his students he had become favorably known in the South. Both Furman and Maxcy were Federalists. The college opened in January 1805 with Maxcy and one professor as faculty. The former taught belles-lettres, criticism, and metaphysics. While it is clear from the "rules and regulations, " which he no doubt drew up, that the college he launched was of the ordinary classical type, it is significant that in the year 1811 a chair of chemistry was established, paving the way for a succession of eminent scientists on the faculty. Maxcy also recommended the establishment of chairs of law and political economy. Mineralogy was added to the department of chemistry, and natural philosophy was joined to mathematics. Some provision was made for students who did not wish to take Latin and Greek. In 1813, probably as a result of student uprisings due to lax discipline, Maxcy was censured by the trustees and asked to show cause why he should not be removed from office. The matter was ultimately dropped, however. While the extant sermons and orations of Maxcy have little interest for our more practical and scientific age, Robert Henry records that he seems to have had no superior in his time as an orator. In his funeral sermon for Dr. Manning he coupled the "great theological champions" Edwards and Hopkins, with Priestley and Price, "preeminent in virtue, " and asked if the former were to engross heaven while the latter sank to regions of darkness and pain. He died in Columbia, S. C.
Maxcy was the second president of Brown University (1792-1802), the third president of Union College in Schenectady, New York (1802-1804) and the first president of the University of South Carolina where he served until his death (1804-1820). He was also a Baptist minister. A monument to his memory stands upon the campus of the University of South Carolina, erected by the Clariosophic Literary Society, of which he was an honorary member. While president of Brown, Maxcy received the honorary degree of D. D. from Harvard At Brown, Maxcy Hall built in 1895 and still in use was named for him. A building at Union College bore the name Maxcy House from 1971 until 1990 when its name was changed to Fero House. In 1827 the Maxcy Monument designed by noted architect Robert Mills was erected in the center of the Horseshoe, the main quadrangle of the University of South Carolina. In 1937 Maxcy College was built just north of the Horseshoe facing Pendleton Street.
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A central principle of his life was religious freedom.
Quotations: "I am not disposed to be so rigidly tenacious of my own sentiments, as to imagine I may not be in an error. All men have full liberty of opinion, and ought to enjoy it without subjecting themselves to the imputation of heresy".
His sermon, The Existence of God Demonstrated from the Works of Creation (1795), delivered at Providence, "produced the most lively and striking effect on the audience, " and was frequently spoken of at the end of half a century. The power of his personality is to be judged from the reverence in which he was held by such of his students as James L. Petigru and George McDuffie. He was a man of medium stature, but "had a peculiar majesty in his walk. " "His features , when they were exercised in conversation or public speaking, were strongly expressive, and exhibited the energy of the soul that animated them".
On August 22, 1791, he married Susan Hopkins, daughter of Commodore Esek Hopkins, of Providence, R. I. Of this union there were born four sons and several daughters.
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