Alonzo Ames Miner
Deceased Person
1814 – 1895
Who was Alonzo Ames Miner?
Alonzo Ames Miner was the second president of Tufts University from 1862 to 1875.
Born in Lempster, New Hampshire, he was the second of five children and only son of Benajah Ames and Amanda Miner. His father was a descendant of the colonist Thomas Miner. He taught school in rural Vermont and New Hampshire before being ordained a Universalist minister in 1839.
Miner supported many moral and civic causes, at various times being on the Board of Trustees at Tufts, the Board of Overseers at Harvard, and the Massachusetts Board of Education. One of the founders of Tufts, he rescued the college from near bankruptcy and instituted many new educational programs as president.
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- Born
- Aug 17, 1814
Lempster - Employment
- Tufts University
- Died
- Jun 14, 1895
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on July 23, 2013
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