Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 – March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...
(then called the Waterville College) in Maine.
Personal life
Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in
Marlborough, Massachusetts
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.
Graduated from
Brown University
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in 1821.
He married Mary Helen (Lee) on April 20, 1829.
His children were Susan Mary, William Wirt, Henry Harrison, Caroline Louise.
Work
Fay had a career as a lawyer.
In 1832 he was the first principal of
New Paltz Academy
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.
From 1833-1834 he published ''The Independence'', a newspaper in
Poughkeepsie, New York
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, which "advocate(d) the cause of Anti-Masonry, literature, science, temperance, morality and religion."
Editor: Eliphaz Fay, 1832-1834.
Elected President of
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine. It was founded in 1813 as the Maine Literary and Theological Institution, then renamed Waterville College after the city where it resides. The donations of Christian philant ...
in August 1841, after a year when the college had no president for the prior year. The enrollment was 76.
References
External links
The Evening of Life, written by Chaplin, and republished several timesPortrait of Chaplin
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1797 births
1854 deaths
Presidents of Colby College
Brown University alumni
19th-century Baptist ministers from the United States