Professor Emily Jessup

Professor Jessup came to the Seminary in 1863 to teach history and soon became confined to a wheelchair. She served on the faculty for thirty years and was a powerful influence in the affairs of Western. She was an excellent teacher much loved by her students. Jessup was referred to as a ‘tower of strength’ during some to dire events that threatened the seminaries existence such as the Western fires , Typhoid epidemic and the Civil War.