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 | West Simsbury, Connecticut | March 26, 1779
Died | April 3, 1861 Pittsfield, Massachusetts | (aged 82)
Spouse | 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]
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. His 1813 report to the Fairfield Association is one of the earliest temperance tracts published in America. [6] Humphrey is also said to have published six articles in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine on the cause, origin, effects and remedy of intemperance. [7]
Following his tenure at Williams College, in 1825 he was appointed president of Amherst. [8] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842. [9] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition. [10] He was the father of U.S. Representative James 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 | West Simsbury, Connecticut | March 26, 1779
Died | April 3, 1861 Pittsfield, Massachusetts | (aged 82)
Spouse | Sophia Porter (1785-1868) |
Alma mater | Yale University class of 1805. |
Signature | |
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]
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. His 1813 report to the Fairfield Association is one of the earliest temperance tracts published in America. [6] Humphrey is also said to have published six articles in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine on the cause, origin, effects and remedy of intemperance. [7]
Following his tenure at Williams College, in 1825 he was appointed president of Amherst. [8] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842. [9] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition. [10] He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.