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educator, academic administrator. John Ogden (February 12, 1824 – July 23, 1910) was an American military officer, minister, veteran educator, and abolitionist. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, being captured in 1864 and held prisoner until the conflict ended.
Oct 8, 2017 · In 1865 Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide federal assistance in education and health care for emancipated African Americans. John Ogden, superintendent of education of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Tennessee, arrived at the bureau’s Nashville headquarters in 1865 to begin his duties.
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- 1865 The End of the Civil War. In 1865, barely six months after the end of the Civil War and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville.
- 1867 Fisk University is Incorporated. The work of Fisk's founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today.
- 1871 THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS® SET OUT. The tradition of excellence at Fisk has developed out of a history marked by struggle and uncertainty. Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers® originated as a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville on October 6, 1871, taking the entire contents of the University treasury with them for travel expenses, praying that through their music they could somehow raise enough money to keep the doors of their debt-ridden school open.
- 1876 Jubilee Hall is Built. The Fisk Jubilee Singers® introduced much of the world to the spirituals as a musical genre— and in the process raised funds that preserved their University and permitted construction of Jubilee Hall, the South's first permanent structure built for the education of black students.
John Ogden, co-founder of Fisk University. Founding[edit] Fisk Free Colored School opened on January 9, 1866, during the Reconstruction era shortly after the end of the Civil War. It was founded by John Ogden, Erastus Milo Cravath, and Edward Parmelee Smith of the American Missionary Association for the education of freedmen in Nashville. [6] .
John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus M. Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith were leaders from both the Freedmen’s Bureau and the American Missionary Association. They all agreed that Nashville would make a great location for a school. After purchasing land in downtown Nashville, they started Fisk Free Colored School in January of 1866.
One of Fisk University's graduates included W.E.B. Du Bois, class of 1888 who became a noted scholar and founder of the NAACP. Learn about the founding of Fisk University, established in 1866 by John Ogden, Erastus Milo Cravath, and Edward P. Smith to provide education and moral character to freedmen and freedwomen.
Rev. E. P. Smith, and John Ogden purchased an abandoned Union Army hospital complex, known as the Railroad Hospital, near the Union Depot in Nashville, Tennessee. They paid sixteen thousand dollars for the old barracks and converted all the buildings into a school. Within a year of opening, Fisk School taught approximately one thousand
