Bejamin Francis Hayes professor at Bates College

Benjamin Francis Hayes (1830-1906) was a Free Will Baptist pastor, author, principal of the

Lapham Institute The Smithville Seminary was a Freewill Baptist institution established in 1839 on what is now Institute Lane in Smithville-North Scituate, Rhode Island. Renamed the Lapham Institute in 1863, it closed in 1876. The site was then used as the campus ...

, and early professor at Bates College in Maine. Benjamin Hayes was born in New Gloucester, Maine in 1830 to Mary (Harmon) Hayes and Rev. Jesse Hayes, a Baptist minister. Benjamin Hayes graduated from

Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ...

in 1855 and received an M.A. from Bowdoin in 1858. He then taught at the

Free Will Baptist Theological Seminary Cobb Divinity School (also known as Bates Theological Seminary or the Free Will Baptist Bible School) was a Baptist theological institute. Founded in 1840, it was a Free Will Baptist graduate school affiliated with several Free Baptist institutio ...

at the New Hampton Institute before becoming a pastor in Olneyville, Rhode Island in 1859 and serving until 1863 when he became principal of the

in Scituate, Rhode Island serving until 1865, when he became a professor at Bates College. He was replaced at Lapham by

Thomas Angell Thomas Angell (c.1616–1694) was one of the four men who wintered with Roger Williams at Seekonk, Plymouth Colony in early 1636, and then joined him in founding the settlement of Providence Plantation in what became the Colony of Rhode Island a ...

in 1865 who later followed him to Bates as a professor of modern languages in 1869. At Bates Hayes served as Professor of Modern Languages and trustee from 1865 to 1868, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature from 1868 to 1869, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy from 1869 to 1875, Professor of Psychology and Exegetical Theology from 1875 to 1894, and Cobb Divinity School Professor of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology from 1894 to 1906. He died in Lewiston in 1906. Hayes' son

Edward Cary Hayes Edward Cary Hayes (1868–1928) was a pioneer in American sociology and was a founder and president of the American Sociological Association. Edward Cary Hayes was born on February 10, 1868, in Lewiston, Maine, to Professor Benjamin Francis Haye ...

was a notable sociologist who wrote a book about his father, entitled ''A Memoir of Prof. Benjamin Francis Hayes, D. D.,: With Brief Extracts from His Writings''. Some of Hayes' original writings are now held by the Bates College Special Collections Library.Benjamin Hayes papers at Bates College
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hayes, Benjamin Francis Bates College faculty Bowdoin College alumni Free Will Baptists 1830 births 1906 deaths