Rev Charles William Forman (1821-1894)

Rev Charles William Forman

Birth

3 Mar 1821

Old Washington, Mason County, Kentucky, USA

Death

25 Aug 1894 (aged 73)

Punjab, India

Burial

Gora Kabristan at Taxali Gate

Lahore, Lahore District, Punjab, Pakistan Add to Map

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father: Ezekial Forman
mother: Dolly Forman
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1st wife: Margaret Janvier Newton Forman
married July 3, 1855
They had 7 children together, five of whom became Presbyterian missionaries to India: Charles, Henry, John, Mary, and Emily.

1. Elizabeth Newton Forman
2. Dr. Charles William Forman
3. Rev Henry Forman
4. Francis "Frank" Forman
5. Rev. John Newton Forman
6. Mary Paxton Forman
7. Emily Newton Forman
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2nd wife: GEORGIANA SHERIFF LOCKHART from Scotland
married Dec. 22, 1882 in India
They had 3 children together:

1. Frances "Fanny" Sheriff Forman
2. DOROTHY Margaret Forman (d. in infancy)
3. Hugh Lockhart Forman

Charles William Forman was a Presbyterian minister, missionary and the founder of Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan.

After entering the family business manufacturing hemp, he was converted at a revival meeting when he was 20 years old. He felt burdened for the salvation of slaves on Kentucky plantations and tried to establish a ministry for them, but without success. He attended Centre College in Kentucky and then Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister on July 7, 1847 and on the same day started his journey to India as a missionary.

Charles W. Forman arrived in India in 1847 and two years later settled in Lahore in north India (now Pakistan). He was the founder of the Rang Mahal School in Lahore, the first Anglo-vernacular school in the northern British India province of Punjab. This school added a college department in 1865, which was later known as Forman Christian College. Rev. Forman was very influential in developing the educational system of the Punjab area. He served on nearly every committee on education appointed by the Punjab government during his lifetime.

Page 11, Fifty-Eighth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church : "Rev. Charles W. Forman, D.D., died at Kasauli, India on August 28, 1894 after 47 years of missionary toil, greatly esteemed and universally loved for his godly character and his eminent services in the cause of India's redemption to Christ".
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In Memory
of
THE REV'D C. W. FORMAN
BORN ON 3RD MARCH 1821 U.S.A.
ENTERED INTO ETERNAL LIFE ON 25TH AUGUST 1894

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARY
FOUNDER OF RANG MAHAL MISSION SCHOOL LHR.
AND FORMAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE LHR.

SERVED LAHORE IN FIELD OF EDUCATION
FOR 46 YEARS [1848 - 1894]