Title:
300 years ago, clergymen's initiative brought us Yale University
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
Connecticut clergyment
Yale University
Nathan Hale statue
Yale University
Nathan Hale statue
Object ID:
Kim08-020
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
12/14/2000
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
The 300th anniversary of Yale University remind us that ten Connecticut clergymen brought us Yale University. Prominent among them was Stonington's Rev. James Noyes and Killingworth's Rev. Abraham Pierson. The colony's population was growing and there was a shortage of educated clergy. The first student, Jacob Hemingway is said to have arrived at the New Haven college in March 1702. The Reverend Cotton Mather, a prominent Boston Clergyman, convinced his friend Elihu Yale to make a sizeable gift to the fledgling college and in 1718 the school was named Yale-college. The Nathan Hale statue that stands there was constructed in 1750-51.
People:
Nyberg, Ann
Noyes, James (Rev.)
Pierson, Abraham (Rev.)
Sewall, Samuel (Judge)
Hemingway, Jacob
Mather, Cotton (Rev.)
Yale, Elihu
Hale, Nathan
Noyes, James (Rev.)
Pierson, Abraham (Rev.)
Sewall, Samuel (Judge)
Hemingway, Jacob
Mather, Cotton (Rev.)
Yale, Elihu
Hale, Nathan
Search Terms:
Yale
Connecticut clergymen
New Haven
Connecticut clergymen
New Haven