Ira Condict
| Ira Condict | |
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| Third President of Rutgers University | |
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In office 30 September 1795 – April 1810 |
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| Preceded by | William Linn |
| Succeeded by | John Henry Livingston |
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February 21, 1764 Orange, New Jersey |
| Died | July 1, 1811 (aged 47) New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | A.B. 1784, The College of New Jersey (Princeton) |
| Profession | clergyman, professor |
| Religion | Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed (Calvinist) |
The Reverend Ira Condict (February 21, 1764 – June 1, 1811) was an American Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed minister who served as the third president of Queen's College (now Rutgers University) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
A graduate of The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Condict was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian faith. In 1794, Condict was appointed as Professor of Moral Philosophy at Queen's College in New Brunswick, and subsequently asked to serve as its third president following the resignation of William Linn. Because the college had closed in 1795, Condict served in a pro tempore capacity from 1795 to 1810, dedicating his efforts to providing theological instruction and administering the Queen's College Grammar School (now Rutgers Preparatory School) which remained open during this time. After a difficult fundraising effort led by Condict, Queen's College was reopened in 1807 and he presided over the laying of the cornerstone for the college's Old Queens building on 27 April 1809.
He was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1764 to Daniel Condict/Condit and Ruth Harrison (Source:, (cited here: Jotham H. Condit and Eben Condit, Genealogical Record of the Condit Family, Ward & Tichenor (Newark, NJ, 1916) Page 15 & 19, where nearly all Condicts were indexed as Condit for the authors' convenience). Ira's grandparents were: Mary Dodd & Samuel Condict (often referenced as Condit by the family genealogy authors, Jotham & Eben Condit, but named on Find A Grave in the family memorial of John the Norman ancestor (of nearly all Condits and Condicts) and Peter's cenotaph as Condict, of Morristown, New jersey. Ira's famous Revolutionary War patriot sister, Jemima Condict Harrison(of Daniel, and her spouse Major Aaron Harrison), wrote of American colonial life and of the Boston Tea Party(New Jersey Historical Society).
Ira's grave is found here:
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