Lemuel Moss

Lemuel Moss (December 27, 1829 – July 13, 1904) served as the sixth president of Indiana University, being the second-to-last of a long line of six "Preacher Presidents."

Lemuel Moss was born in Bullittsville, Kentucky on December 27, 1829, to Demas and Esther Moss. After the first four years of his childhood, he relocated to Dearborn County, Indiana for another ten years. A printer by trade, Moss worked mainly a printer in Cincinnati, Ohio until 1853. He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1858, as well as a degree from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1860. He also received his D.D. and LL.D. from the University of Rochester (1868, 1883). Moss served as the Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Worcester, Massachusetts (1860–1864) and in Woodbury, New Jersey (1864–1866). During that time (1864–1865), he served as the secretary of the U.S. Christian Committee.

Moss began his career in academia in 1865 when he became Professor of Theology at the University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) until 1868. Between 1868 and 1972, Moss served as editor of the National Baptist as well professor of New Testament interpretation at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania. In 1874, Moss accepted the position as President of the University of Chicago. He left the next year to become President of Indiana University. He remained there until 1884, when a scandal broke with a female professor that brought him to resign his post. After a few years away from academia, he returned as Lecturer of Christian Sociology at Bucknell University, where he remained until his death on July 12, 1904.

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