Heman Humphrey

Heman Humphrey
President of Amherst College
In office 1823–1845
Preceded by	Zephaniah Swift Moore
Succeeded by	Edward Hitchcock
Personal details
Born	March 26, 1779 West Simsbury, Connecticut
Died	April 3, 1861 (aged 82) Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Spouse(s)	Sophia Porter (1785-1868)
Alma mater	Yale class of 1805.
Religion	Congregationalist

Heman Humphrey (March 26, 1779 – April 3, 1861) 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.^[1][2][3][4] He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 1807-1817, and Pittsfield, Mass., 1817-1823.^[5] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition. (Hugins, Walter (ed.), The Reform Impulse, 1825–1850). Columbia, SC 1972. He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.

Bibliography

• Humphrey, Rev. Heman, D.D (1854). THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. Reed, Hull & Peirson, Pittsfield. p. 32. Url

References

1. Amherst College Archives & Special Collections
2. Heman Humphrey and John R. Rice on Revival Praying
3. William Stearns, President (amherstiana.org)
4. Heman Humphrey, President (amherstiana.org)
5. "Heman Humphrey Sermons". Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Amherst, MA. Retrieved 1 June 2012.