Fanny M. Jackson Coppin

Fanny M. Jackson Coppin is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Cheyney, Delaware County, dedicated 1986.

Cheyney University campus, off Dilworthtown & Cheyney Rds., Cheyney

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Educator, writer, humanist, missionary. A former slave, she graduated from Oberlin College in 1865. Principal, Institute for Colored Youth, 1869-1902 (I.C.Y. became Cheyney University, 1983). Coppin pioneered industrial arts and teacher education.

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1847 · New Jersey (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · County map of the State of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Johnson's New Jersey (1865) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · West Chester, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering the location of Fanny M. Jackson Coppin, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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