Heman Humphrey
Heman Humphrey | |
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| President of Amherst College | |
| In office 1823–1845 | |
| Preceded by | Zephaniah Swift Moore |
| Succeeded by | Edward Hitchcock |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 26, 1779 West Simsbury, Connecticut |
| Died | April 3, 1861 (aged 82) Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Spouse(s) | Sophia Porter (1785-1868) |
| Alma mater | Yale University class of 1805. |
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Heman Humphrey (March 26, 1779 – April 3, 1861) was a 19th-century American author and clergyman who served as a trustee of Williams College and afterward as the second president of Amherst College, a post he held for 22 years.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education[]
Humphrey was born in West Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (which became Canton, Connecticut) to farmer Solomon Humphrey, of a family that came from England before 1643, and Hannah, daughter of Captain John Brown.[5]
Humphrey graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805 and was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He became a minister in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1807, moving to Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1817. Following his tenure at Williams College, in 1825 he was appointed president of Amherst.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842.[7] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition.[8] He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.
Bibliography[]
- Humphrey, Heman (1813). Intemperance: an address, to the churches and congregations of the Western district of Fairfield County. New Haven, Connecticut: Eli Hudson. p. 31. hdl:2027/hvd.hxjnip – via HathiTrust.
- Humphrey, Heman (1854). The Missouri Compromise. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Reed, Hull & Peirson. pp. 32. OL 7171247M – via Internet Archive.
- Humphrey, Heman (1859). Revival Sketches and Manual: in Two Parts. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: American Tract Society. OL 6363048M – via Internet Archive.
References[]
- ^ Heman Humphrey: Second President Archived May 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
- ^ Heman Humphrey and John R. Rice on Revival Praying
- ^ William Stearns, President (amherstiana.org)
- ^ Heman Humphrey, President (amherstiana.org)
- ^ Humphrey, Zephaniah Moore; Neill, Henry (1869). Memorial Sketches, Heman Humphrey, Sophia Porter Humphrey. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co. pp. 199. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t00001f6x – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Heman Humphrey Sermons". Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Amherst, MA. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ^ (Hugins, Walter (ed.), The Reform Impulse, 1825–1850). Columbia, SC 1972
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