Charles Grandison Finney was born in East Windsor, New Jersey, on February 27, 1792. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister. He received his early education at home, supplemented by private tutors who were sent to him by the Presbytery of Dutchess County to teach him Latin and Greek. At about the age of 13 he began his formal education at Princeton University where he studied under the famous Dr
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John Witherspoon who could trace his ancestry back to John Knox, Scotland’s first martyr. Dr. Witherspoon was convinced that man possesses an innate urge to develop his spiritual nature through self-culture.
"The desire of every human being is to become what God intended him to be." From Princeton, Finney went to Union College in Schenectady where he graduated in 1810 with honors in mathematics and classical literature. He would later receive honorary degrees from many other schools including Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, the University of Vermont, Amherst College, Rutgers University and Brown University among others.