Asa Drury
| Asa Drury | |
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Asa Drury ca. 1865
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| Born |
July 26, 1801 Athol, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 18, 1870 (aged 68) St. Anthony, Minnesota, United States |
| Residence | Covington, Kentucky; Granville, Ohio; Waterville, Maine |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Yale University A.B. 1829 Brown University A.M. 1832 Brown University D.D. 1834 |
| Known for | establishment of public schools in Covington, Kentucky; antebellum abolitionist; Denison University professor |
| Spouse(s) | Hannah Perry Drury (m. 1832) Elizabeth Drury (m. ca1840) |
| Children | Alexander Greer Drury (1844–1929) Marshall P. Drury (b. 1846) |
| Notes | |
Asa Drury (1801–1870) was an American Baptist minister and educator primarily teaching at Granville Literary and Theological Institution (today's Denison University) in Granville, Ohio and the Western Baptist Theological Institute in Covington, Kentucky, and establishing the public schools in Covington. He is best known for his antebellum abolitionist views and his role in establishing the Underground Railroad in Ohio.
Asa Drury was born July 26, 1801 in Athol, Massachusetts as the fifth of eleven children of Joel Drury and Ruth (Hill) Drury. Drury studied at Yale University, earning his A.B. degree in 1829. Upon graduation, he served as rector of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut from 1829 to 1831. He earned his A.M. degree at Brown University in 1832, followed by his D.D. from the same institution in 1834. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in Providence, Rhode Island on September 14, 1834. Drury married Hannah Perry of Brookfield, Massachusetts on January 17, 1832, and they had no children. During the 1839–1840 academic year, Drury was teaching in Waterville, Maine, and he was married a second time to Elizabeth. He and Elizabeth had two sons. Alexander G. Drury (b. 1844) and Marshall P. Drury (b. 1846).
Shortly after ordination in 1834, Drury was recruited by fellow Brown University alumnus and President of Granville Literary and Theological Institution, John Pratt, to teach Latin and Greek. Drury taught there for two years, but he was best known for his abolitionist activism and establishing a station of the Underground Railroad on the Granville campus and working to organize the 1836 Ohio Abolitionist Convention to be held in Granville. In 1836 possibly as fallout from the Granville Riot, Drury accepted a position as a professor of Greek at Cincinnati College where he remained until 1845, except for a year of teaching Latin and Greek at Waterville College in Waterville, Maine during the 1839–1840 academic year.
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