Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: middletown , connecticut - title: president of wesleyan university president of wesleyan university - successor: nathan bangs augustus william smith - death date: 15 august 1851 - predecessor: willbur fisk nathan bangs - term end: 1841 1851 - term start: 1839 1842 - birth date: 2 march 1797 - name: stephen olin - image: stephen olin.jpg - birth place: leicester , vermont Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of stephen olin .
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stephen olin -lrb- march 2 , 1797 -- august 15 , 1851 -rrb- was an american educator and minister .he graduated middlebury college in 1820 and was ordained into the methodist episcopal church while teaching at the tabernacle academy in south carolina and served a pastorate in charleston .he became professor of belle-lettres at the university of georgia in 1827 .he was the first president of randolph macon college -lrb- 1834 -- 1837 -rrb- and later was president of wesleyan university -lrb- 1839 -- 1851 -rrb- .in 1844 , at the general conference of the methodists , olin called on his friend , bishop james andrew , to resign his office , on the grounds the latter owned slaves .olin himself was criticized because his first wife -lrb- mary e. bostwick , whom he married in 1827 -rrb- had owned slaves .