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Stephen Olin was born on March 2, 1797, in Leicester, Vermont, the son of Henry and Lois (Richardson) Olin. His father was a lawyer and a prominent political figure in that state.
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Stephen Olin was born on March 2, 1797, in Leicester, Vermont, the son of Henry and Lois (Richardson) Olin. His father was a lawyer and a prominent political figure in that state.
As a student in Middlebury College, Olin won high scholastic honors and was valedictorian of the class of 1820. He secured these honors, however, at the expense of his health. Close application to his studies and lack of physical exercise so undermined his constitution that the rest of his life was a continual struggle with disease.
Stephen Olin had intended to enter the legal profession but in 1820, hoping to benefit by the climate, he went to South Carolina, where he became an instructor in Tabernacle Academy. While there he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and in 1824 was admitted on trial to the South Carolina Conference. From January to July 1824 he served as junior preacher in Charleston, South Carolina, but the rigorous life of the early Methodist itinerancy proved too strenuous for him, and he was soon forced to retire from the active ministry. In 1826, while recuperating at Madison Springs, Georgia, he was elected professor of ethics and belles-lettres in Franklin College, Athens, Georgia, which position he held from 1827 to 1833. On November 20, 1828, he was ordained elder by Bishop William McKendree. In March 1834 he became president of Randolph-Macon College, then located in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, but by 1837 his health was again depleted, and he spent the next three years recuperating in Europe and the Holy Land. Returning to America in 1840, his health partially restored, he accepted in 1842 the presidency of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. This office he held until his death in 1851.
As president of two pioneer Methodist colleges, Stephen Olin did much to arouse his denomination to its educational task. By his official visits to the annual Conferences and by his articles in the Christian Advocate and Journal he did much to enlist the support of both clergy and laity to the early educational program of Methodism. He was one of the few Methodists prior to 1850 who championed the cause of theological education. As a delegate to the General Conference of 1844 from the New York Conference, which opposed slavery, Olin found himself in a peculiar position, for during his stay in the South he had owned slaves. He endeavored to prevent the schism in the Church and was a member of the committee appointed to find a basis of agreement for the pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. Buckley states that "the only speech delivered in the General Conference of 1844 which exhibited a full comprehension and just estimate of all sides of the subject was that of Stephen Olin who was as familiar with the North as with the South. " Although Olin voted for the Finley resolution which requested Bishop Andrew to desist from episcopal duties until he had freed himself from all connection with slavery, yet, immediately after the adjournment of the Conference, he became the leader in the movement for securing fraternal relations between the two branches of Episcopal Methodism.
Stephen Olin was vitally interested, also, in fostering a closer friendship among the various Protestant denominations, and was instrumental in organizing the Evangelical Alliance. In 1846 he represented the New York and New England conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the meeting of the Alliance in London.
Stephen Olin died at the age of 54 in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Stephen Olin was married twice: first, April 10, 1827, to Mary Ann Eliza Bostick of Milledgeville, Georgia, who died in Naples, Italy, May 7, 1839; second, at Rhinebeck, New York, October 18, 1843, to Julia M. Lynch. A son born to them in 1847 died in youth.