page_title: John Price Crozer
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: John Price Crozer / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: English: The Schoolhouse Museum in Upland, PA
context_page_description: John Price Crozer was an American textile manufacturer, banker, and philanthropist from Upland, Pennsylvania. His mills produced clothing for the US Army and other customers.
context_section_description: Crozer donated liberally to charitable, educational and religious organizations.  At his own cost, he built the Upland Baptist Church.  He donated the land on which the First Baptist Church of Chester was built and contributed largely to the construction of the church.  He endowed a theological studies professorship at the University of Lewisburg and built the Normal Institute for Boys in Upland (see Old Main Building below).
  In 1849, Crozer convinced the school district of Chester to establish a school in Upland.  He erected a building to be used exclusively as a school at his own expense.  The building is currently used as The Schoolhouse Museum.
  He was president of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society; president of the board of directors of the American Baptist Publication Society; president of the Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble-Minded Children; president of the Home for Friendless Children; president of the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and president of the Pennsylvania Baptist Education Society.  He was one of the founders of the Christian Commission.
caption: The Schoolhouse Museum in Upland, PA
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