Heman Humphrey


Heman Humphrey was born in Hartford County, Conn. He graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805. Humphrey was a 19thcentury American author and clergyman who served as 2nd president of Amherst College foryears. He was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He pastored in Fairfield, Conn., 18071817, and Pittsfield, Mass., 18171823. Humphrey was influential in the nineteenthcentury temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition. , The Reform Impulse, 18251850. Columbia, SC 1972. He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.

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