Charles Brickett Haddock
Charles Brickett Haddock (20 June 1796, Franklin, New Hampshire - 15 January 1861, West Lebanon, New Hampshire) was a New Hampshire educator, author, politician and civil servant.
Biography
His mother Abigail was a sister of Daniel Webster. Haddock graduated from Dartmouth College in 1816 and at Andover Seminary in 1819. He returned to Dartmouth, where he was professor of rhetoric and belles lettres from 1819 until 1838, when he became professor of intellectual philosophy and political economy until 1854. He was chargé d'affaires for the United States in Portugal from 1850 until 1854. Except for his time in Portugal, he served as a Congregationalist minister in Windsor, White River, Norwich, West Lebanon, and Quechee.[1]
Thoroughly versed in public law, he represented Hanover[2] for four years as a Whig in the New Hampshire legislature. There he introduced and carried the present common-school system of the state, and was the first school commissioner under that system. He was a promoter of railroad construction in New Hampshire.[3]
He made anniversary orations, lectures, reports for fifteen years on education, sermons, and wrote on agriculture and rhetoric. He published a volume of addresses and other writings, including occasional sermons, in 1846, and was a contributor to the Bibliotheca Sacra, Biblical Repertory, and other periodicals.
He was married twice: 19 August 1819 to Susan Saunders Lang (12 November 1796, Hanover, New Hampshire - 17 August 1840) in Hanover, New Hampshire, and 21 July 1841 to Caroline Young Kimball (18 December 1807, Lebanon, New Hampshire - 7 March 1892, Hanover, New Hampshire) in Hanover. In the late 1820s he was accused of adultery involving a relative of Webster's, Emeline Colby Webster. Defended by his brother William Townsend Heydock, a former student of Daniel Webster's, it was never proven.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Brown, Samuel Gilman (1861). A Discourse, Commemorative of Charles Brickett Haddock, D.D., Late Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy. Dartmouth College. p. 25.
- ↑ Chapman, George Thomas (1867). "Charles Bricket Haddock". Sketches of the alumni of Dartmouth college. Riverside Press. p. 181.
- ↑ Stone, Donald L. (1932). "Haddock, Charles Brickett". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ↑ Chase, Salmon Portland (1994). The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1823-57. Kent State University Press. p. 23.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Haddock, Charles Brickett". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- Haddock, Charles B. (1846). Addresses and miscellaneous writings. Cambridge: Metcalf and Co.
- Brown, Samuel Gilman (1861). A discourse, commemorative of Charles Brickett Haddock, D.D. Windsor, Vermont: Press of Bishop & Tracy.