The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers

General Editor John R. Shook

The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers (DEAP) will be published by Thoemmes Continuum in 2010.
DEAP joins a growing series of impressive biographical dictionaries, including the
Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.

Early American Philosophers were contributors to philosophical thought who lived in the territories of present-day U.S. and Canada from 1600 to 1860. DEAP will include approximately 480 figures, including hundreds of professional educators responsible for teaching philosophy, along with many theologians, social scientists and reformers, political theorists, lawyers, physicians, and scientists.

Interested in the history of American philosophy? Consult American Professors of Philosophy and Theology and A Timeline of American Thought.

 

Individuals proposed for inclusion in DEAP

Last Name

First Name

Dates

Career

Reference Works (abbreviations explained)

Adams

John

1735-1826

2nd US President

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Adams

Samuel

1722-1803

Massachusetts Revolutionary.

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Adams

Jasper

1793-1841

President (1824-26, 1828-36) and Horry Prof. Moral and Political Philosophy (1828-36) at College of Charleston, S.C., then President of Geneva College (1826-28), Chaplain and Prof. Ethics, Geography, and History at West Point (1838-40).

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Adams

Hannah

1755-1832

Historian and theologian, authored early books on comparative religion.

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Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe

1807-1873

Prof. Zoology and Natural History at Harvard (1847-73).

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Alcott

Amos Bronson

1799-1888

Schoolmaster in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts (1820s-1860s), Independent  scholar in Concord (1860s-1888).

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Alden

Joseph

1807-1885

Prof. Latin, then Rhetoric and Political Economy at Williams College (1835-52), Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania (1852-57), President of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania (1857-62)

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Alexander

Archibald

1772-1851

Prof. Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary (1812-50).

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Alison

Francis

1705-1779

Founded Academy of Philadelphia in 1743 and taught most classes incl. philosophy until 1752, Prof. Greek and Latin at Academy of Philadelphia (1752-55), Vice Provost and Prof. Higher Classics and Metaphysics at College of Philadelphia (1755-1779)

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Allen

Ethan

1738-1789

Vermont Revolutionary and freethinker.

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Ames

Fisher

1758-1808

Revolutionary, politician in Massachusetts.

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Andrews

Israel Ward

1815-1888

Prof. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Marietta College in Ohio (1839-55), Prof. Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at Marietta (1855-85).

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Andrews

John

1746-1813

Anglican Minister, Vice Provost and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1789-1810), Provost and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1810-13).

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Andrews

Lorin

1819-1861

President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Political Economy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1853-61).

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Andrews

Stephen Pearl

1812-1886

Lawyer, philosopher, and freethinker in New York.

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Anthony

Susan Brownell

1820-1906

Leader of Women's Rights Movement in New York.

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Bachman

John

1790-1874

Lutheran Minister in South Carolina and prominent naturalist. Pro-slavery yet defended full humanity of Africans.

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Backus

Isaac

1724-1806

Baptist Minister in Massachusetts, defender of religious and political liberties.

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Bacon

Joel Smith

1802-1869

Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Hamilton College in New York (1833-37), President and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Columbian College (now George Washington University) (1843-54).

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Ballou

Hosea

1771-1852

Prominent Unitarian and Universalist in Massachusetts.

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Bancroft

George

1800-1891

Historian and diplomat, wrote first American study of German literature and philosophy in 1827-28.

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Barlow

Joel

1754-1812

Diplomat, Member of the Hartford Wits, wrote on religion, government.

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Bartlett

Samuel Colcord

1817-1898

Congregational Minister, Prof. Intellectual Philosophy and Rhetoric at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1846-52), Prof. Biblical Literature at Chicago Theological Seminary (1858-77), President of Dartmouth (1877-92).

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Bartlett

Elisha

1804-1855

Physician in Massachusetts, Kentucky, New York City.

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Bartol

Cyrus Augustus

1813-1900

Unitarian Minister in Boston (1837-89)

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Bascom

Henry Bidleman

1796-1850

President of Transylvania College in Kentucky (1842-49).

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Batchelder

John Putnam

1784-1868

Physician in New England

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Baxter

George Addison

1771-1841

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Washington College in Virginia (1799-1829).

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Baylies

Nicholas

1772-1847

Lawyer, Justice of Supreme Court of Vermont (1831-34).

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Beasley

Frederick

1777-1845

Episcopal Minister, Provost and Prof. Mental and Moral Philosophy at Univ. Pennsylvania (1813-28).

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Beaven

James

1801-1875

Prof. Divinity and Philosophy at King’s College in Toronto (1843-1851), Prof. Philosophy at Toronto (1851-71).

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Beck

Theodric Romeyn

1791-1855

Prof. Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Fairfield NY (1815-40), Albany Medical College in NY (1840-54).

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Beecher

Lyman

1775-1863

Presbyterian Minister, Prof. Theology at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati (1832-50).

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Beecher

Catharine Esther

1800-1878

Liberal Congregational Minister in New York City (1847-87).

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Beecher

Edward

1803-1895

Congregational Minister, President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Illinois College (1830-44)

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Bellamy

Joseph

1719-1790

Congregational Minister and Edwardsian theologian in Connecticut (1738-90)

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Beman

Nathan Sidney Smith

1785-1871

Presbyterian Minister, President and Prof. Philosophy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1845-65).

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Bishop

Robert Hamilton

1777-1855

Prof. Philosophy at Transylvania College in Kentucky (1804-24), President of Miami University in Ohio (1824-41) and also Prof. History and Philosophy of Social Relations at Miami (1833-44), Prof. Social Phil. at Farmer's College near Cincinnati (1845-55).

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Blackwell

Antoinette Louisa Brown

1825-1921

Unitarian Minister and feminist in New York and New Jersey.

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Blanchard

Jonathan

1811-1892

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Knox College in Illinois (1846-58), President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Wheaton College in Illinois (1860-82).

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Bland

Richard

1710-1776

Revolutionary in Virginia.

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Bledsoe

Albert Taylor

1809-1877

Methodist Minister, Prof. Mathematics and Astronomy at Mississippi (1848-54), Prof. Mathematics at Virginia (1854-61).

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Boucher

Jonathan

1738-1804

Anglican Minister, loyalist, political theorist in Virginia.

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Bouvart

Martin

1637-1705

Catholic Priest, Prof. Theology, Philosophy, and Rhetoric at the Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1676-98), also Rector there (1698-1704).

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Bowden

John

1751-1817

Episcopal Minister, Prof. Moral Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric, and Belles-letters at Columbia College in NYC (1803-17).

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Bowen

Francis

1811-1890

Prof. Philosophy at Harvard (1835-39, 1853-89).

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Boyd

James Robert

1804-1890

Prof. Moral Philosophy and Pastor at Hamilton College in New York (?-?). Wrote "Eclectic moral philosophy" (1846).

Dictionary of American Authors, Fifth edition

Brackenridge

Hugh Henry

1748-1816

Writer and political theorist, Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1799-1816).

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Bradstreet

Anne

1612-1672

Poet, religious/philosophical thinker in Massachusetts.

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Branagan

Thomas

1774-1843

Abolitionist in Philadelphia.

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Brantly

William Theophilus

1787-1845

President and Horry Prof. of Moral, Intellectual, and Political Philosophy at College of Charleston, S.C. (1838-44).

Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans

Brattle

William

1662-1717

Tutor at Harvard (1680-96), Fellow of Harvard (1696-1700).

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Brigham

Amariah

1798-1849

Physician and early psychiatrist.

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Brisbane

Albert

1809-1890

Advocate of Fourierism.

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Bronson

Sherlock Anson

1807-1890

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1845-50).

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Brown

John

1763-1842

Prof. Logic and Moral Philosophy at Univ. South Carolina (1809-11), President and Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1811-16).

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Brownson

Orestes Augustus

1803-1876

Independent theologian, philosopher, and author.

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Bryant

William Cullen

1794-1878

Poet, social critic, abolitionist.

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Buchanan

Joseph

1785-1829

Educator, journalist in Kentucky.

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Buchanan

Joseph Rodes

1814-1899

American scientist, Faculty Dean and Professor in the Eclectic Medical Institute, in Covington, Kentucky.

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Burton

Asa

1752-1836

Congregational Minister and theologian in Vermont.

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Bush

George

1796-1859

Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at New York University (1831-47).

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Bushnell

Horace

1802-1876

Congregational Minister in Connecticut (1833-76).

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Caldwell

Joseph

1773-1835

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. North Carolina (1816-35).

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Calhoun

John Caldwell

1782-1850

Vice President of US (1825-32), US Senator from South Carolina (1832-43, 1845-50).

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Camm

John

1718-1778

Prof. Divinity at College of William and Mary (1749-1757, 1763-1771), monarchist loyalist.

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Campbell

Alexander

1788-1866

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Bethany College in (West) Virginia (1841-66).

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Cannon

James Spencer

1776-1852

Prof. Pastoral Theology and Ecclesiastical History at Rutgers (1826-52), also responsible for Metaphysics.

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Cardell

William Samuel

1780-1828

Langauges teacher in New York. Wrote "Essay on language, as connected with the faculties of the mind, and as applied to things in nature and art" (1825).

Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature

Cardozo

Jacob Newton

1786-1873

Political economist.

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Carey

Henry Charles

1793-1879

Economist and social scientist

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Carey

Mathew

1760-1839

Economist.

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Carleton

Henry

1785-1863

Jurist in Louisiana.

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Carnahan

James

1775-1859

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Princeton (1823-1854).

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Carter

George W.

 

Prof. Philosophy at Univ. Mississippi (1857-60).

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Carter

Landon

1710-1778

Politician in Virginia, Revolutionary

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Cary

Mary Ann Camberton Shadd

1823-1893

African America/Canadian abolitionist; wrote for Frederick Douglass's New National Era and The Advocate.

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Chace

George Ide

1808-1885

Prof. Chemistry, Physiology, and Geology at Brown (1836-1871), also Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy (1867-71).

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Chadbourne

Paul Ansel

1823-1883

President of Univ. Wisconsin (1867-70), President of Williams College (1872-1881).

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Champlin

James Tift

1811-1882

President of Colby College in Maine (1857-73).

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Channing

William Ellery

1780-1842

Unitarian Minister in Boston (1805-42), abolitionist.

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Channing

William Henry

1810-1884

Unitarian Minister in Boston, Washington D.C.

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Chapin

Stephen

1778-1845

President and Prof. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Columbian College (now George Washington University) (1828-41).

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Chase

Philander

1775-1852

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Kenyon College in Ohio (1825-31).

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Chase

Salmon Portland

1808-1873

Abolitionist lawyer and politician in Ohio, Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1864-73).

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Chauncy

Charles

1777-1849

Congregational Minister and theologian in Boston.

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Chauncy

Charles

1705-1787

Congregationalist Minister and theologian in Massachusetts.

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Cheever

George Barrell

1807-1890

Congregational minister and abolitionist in Boston and New York.

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Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale

1824-1904

Teacher, writer, and social activist in Massachusetts.

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Child

Lydia Maria Francis

1802-1880

Abolitionist and writer in Massachusetts.

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Chipman

Nathaniel

1752-1843

Lawyer and judge in Vermont, Prof. Law at Middlebury College in Vermont (1816-43).

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Church

Alonzo

1793-1862

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Univ. Georgia (1829-59).

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Clap

Thomas

1703-1767

Congregational Minister, President of Yale (1745-66).

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Clarke

James Freeman

1810-1888

Lecturer in Theology, Ethics at Harvard Divinity School.

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Colden

Cadwallader

1688-1776

Scientist, philosopher in New York.

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Collens

Thomas Wharton

1812-1897

Jurist in New Orleans.

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Colwell

Stephen

1800-1871

Political Economist in New Jersey and Philadelphia

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Conover

Samuel Forman

1766?-1824

Physician in New Jersey.

 

Cooper

Myles

1737-1785

President of King's College (later Columbia) in New York City (1763-75), taught theology and philosophy.

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Cooper

Thomas

1759-1839

Scientist, President of Univ. South Carolina (1821-34), political economist.

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Cooper

James Fenimore

1789-1851

Writer and political theorist.

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Coxe

Tench

1755-1824

Government official, economist, historian.

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Crawford

John

1746-1813

Physician in Maryland.

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Crawford

Charles

1752-1815

Abolitionist in Philadelphia.

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Crocker

Hannah Mather

1752-1829

Feminist in Boston, wrote “Observations on the Real Rights of Women” (1818).

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Cummings

Joseph

1817-1890

Methodist Minister, President of Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1857-75), taught philosophy. Professor of Mental Philosophy and Political Economy at Wesleyan (1875-77).

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Dagg

John Leadley

1794-1884

President and Prof. Moral Philosophy at Mercer University in Georgia (1845-56).

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Dall

Caroline Wells Healey

1822-1912

Social scientist, feminist in Boston and Washington DC

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Dana

Charles Anderson

1819-1897

Transcendentalist, poet, abolitionist, editor of New York Sun (1868-97).

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Dana

Alexander Hamilton

1807-1887

Lawyer in New York. Wrote "Ethical and physiological inquiries" (1862)

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Dana

James

1735-1812

Congregational Minister in Connecticut.

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David

John Baptist Mary

1761-1841

Prof. Philosophy at Georgetown College (1804-06).

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Davies

Samuel

1723-1761

Presbyterian Minister and theologian in Virginia, President of Princeton (1759-61).

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Davis

Andrew Jackson

1826-1910

Spiritualist in New York

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Dawson

William

1704-1752

Prof. Moral Philosophy at College of William and Mary (1729-52), also President there (1743-52).

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Day

Henry Noble

1808-1890

Prof. Theology at Western Reserve College in Ohio (1840-52), President of Ohio Female College (1858-64).

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Day

Jeremiah

1773-1867

President of Yale (1817-47).

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De Quen

Jean

1603-1659

Prof. at Collège des Jésuites in Quebec (1635-37?).

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Dean

Amos

1803-1868

Prof. Medical Jurisprudence at Albany (NY) Medical College (1838-58).

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Deems

Charles Force

1820-1893

Prof. Rhetoric and Logic at Univ. North Carolina (1842-47), President of Greensboro Female College (1850-54).

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DeLancey

William Heathcote

1797-1865

President and Pr