Reverend Jacob Rowe


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Rowe and the Master of the grammar school became far too merry and led the college boys in a row with the boys of the town. Consequently, one of these clergymen was summarily dismissed and the other resigned... Almost a year passed before a successor to the deposed professor of moral philosophy was installed, and in the interim Small added all or many of Rowe's subjects to his own.

  • by Dumas Malone
  • about Thomas Jefferson, William Small, Reverend Jacob Rowe
  • Jefferson's other teacher at first was the Reverend Jacob Rowe, professor of moral philosophy, whose field comprised rhetoric, logic, and ethics.

  • by Dumas Malone
  • about Thomas Jefferson, Reverend Jacob Rowe