James Hadley was a United States philologist who taught Greek and Hebrew languages at Yale College.
He was born in Fairfield, New York, where his father was professor of chemistry at Fairfield Medical College. At the age of nine, a knee injury left him lame for life. He received his early instruction at the Fairfield Academy, and also acquired some scientific knowledge from his father. He became assistant at the Academy, and later graduated from Yale College in 1842, having entered the junior class in 1840. He was then a resident graduate at Yale for a year, after which he entered Yales theological seminary, where he spent two years.
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