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Pencil drawing based upon an earlier portrait, Cloy Kent, 1975<\/p><\/div>\n

Though his term as president was brief, James Black gave the university a new impetus with respect to professional instruction.<\/p>\n

By the time of his departure, the Law and Medical departments were firmly established, while the Preparatory Department, designed to prepare incoming students for the university, was eliminated.<\/p>\n

Black was educated at Washington College in Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1848 and a Master of Arts in 1851.<\/p>\n

After serving one year as an academy principal in Pennsylvania, he became pastor of a congregation in that state, where he remained until 1859 when he returned to Washington College as a professor of Greek language and literature. He moved to Iowa City in 1868. Following his term at Iowa, he went to Wooster, Ohio, where he accepted a professorship at Presbyterian College (later the University of Wooster), a position he held until retirement.<\/p>\n

Black was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 1826, and died in Wooster on Dec. 22, 1890, at age 64.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tFirst faculty of the College of Medicine, 1870, \nF.W. Kent Collection, University of Iowa Archives.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t
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