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Francis Wayland (March 11, 1796 – September 30, 1865), American Baptist educator and economist, was born in New York City, New York. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in Americain Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educateformer slaves, and was named in his honor. (In 1899, Wayland Seminary mergedwith another school to become the current Virginia Union University,at Richmond, Virginia.)