
Heman Humphrey
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1779 – 1861
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Who was Heman Humphrey?
Heman Humphrey was born in Hartford County, Conn. He graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805. Humphrey was a 19th-century American author and clergyman who served as 2nd president of Amherst College for 22 years. He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 1807-1817, and Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-1823. Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition.. Columbia, SC 1972. He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.
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- Born
- Mar 26, 1779
West Simsbury, Connecticut - Employment
- Amherst College
- Died
- 1861
Pittsfield
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on July 23, 2013
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