Birthdays
Asa Mahan (1799 to 1889)
Congregational Church
1st president of Oberlin College.
Asa Mahan was born in Verona, New York. He became a Congregational clergyman and the first president of Oberlin College, founded by evangelist Charles Finney. In a leading advance for the times, he insisted that the school take students without regard to their race or sex.
