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John Monteith (minister)
Reverend John Monteith (August 5, 1788 – April 5, 1868)〔Roscoe O. Bonisteel, (''John Monteith, first president of the University of Michigan'' ), Michigan Historical Collections, Bulletin 15, Ann Arbor, MI, 1967, p.6.〕 was a Presbyterian minister, educator, abolitionist and a founding father of the University of Michigan, formerly known as University of Michigania or the Catholepistemiad. Monteith served as president of the university from 1817 through 1821. During his five years in Detroit, he also served as the city's first librarian, and founded the first Protestant church in Detroit and the first Presbyterian church in what is now the State of Michigan.
According to his son, Rev. Monteith was six feet tall, and was straight as a rod. He did not drink liquor, and he was rarely ill. As an abolitionist, a temperance advocate, a defender of the Sabbath, and an educator of young minds, he took it as his personal mission to convince others to accept his beliefs, and was therefore sometimes a controversial figure.〔("Pastor's New Years Greeting" ), No. 6-1887, Memorial Presbyterian Church, Detroit, Michigan pp. 17-18.〕
==Early life and education==
John Monteith was born August 4, 1788 on a farm in the vicinity of what is now Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but which was then Straban twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.〔Philip E. Bursely, "Notes on the Search for the Birthplace of the first president of the University, John Monteith," in Vertical File, John Monteith, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, MI.〕 About 1805, the family moved to Coitsville in northeast Ohio, to a farm close enough to the state line that the family regularly attended church in New Bedford, Pennsylvania in the Hopewell Congregation. According to his diary, his father's health was feeble, and so John worked at farming to support the family.〔(Diary ), John Monteith papers, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.〕 Nevertheless, at age twenty, under the guidance of his pastor, Rev. William Wick, Monteith began to study Latin grammar and to educate himself in the hours not devoted to agriculture. He soon started his formal education at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a BA in 1813.
After a short stint as a schoolteacher in Cumberland, Maryland, he continued his education at Princeton Theological Seminary which had opened in 1812 with one professor and only a dozen students. There he lived in the home of the president, Dr. Archibald Alexander, and tutored Alexander's young sons, James Waddel Alexander, William Cowper Alexander and Joseph Addison Alexander.〔John Comin and Harold Fredsell, ("John Monteith, Pioneer Presbyterian of Detroit" ), in ''Public Education in Michigan'', Gerald L. Poor and Gladys I. Griffin, Central Michigan University, 1959.〕 By the time he graduated in 1816, he could write in French and Latin and knew Hebrew and Greek. When Alexander received a plea from the frontier outpost of Detroit for a minister from Gov. Lewis Cass and Henry Jackson Hunt, he suggested Monteith should accept the offer.〔 Monteith was licensed as a Presbyterian missionary in spring of 1816 and set out for Detroit.
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