Samuel McClintock Hamill (July 6, 1812 – September 21, 1889) was an American educator and
Presbyterian clergyman. Hamill was the longest serving Head Master of the
Lawrenceville School near
Princeton, NJ
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.
Biography
Hamill was born in
Norristown, Pennsylvania
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on July 6, 1812, and graduated from Jefferson College currently (
Washington & Jefferson College) in 1834. He received his D.D. from
Rutgers University and
Hanover College in 1862. He was an accomplished Presbyterian clergyman, educator, New Jersey State Superintendent of Public Schools, and a founder of the
New Jersey Historical Society. After President Abraham Lincoln's death, Hamill composed a widely circulated eulogy for the assassinated president. In 1837 he became the third Head Master of classical and commercial boarding-school. Hamill strengthened the small school which was ultimately renamed The
Lawrenceville School. He remains the school's longest serving Head Master. He died in
Trenton, New Jersey in 1889 and is buried in the Lawrenceville Cemetery in
Lawrenceville, NJ.
References
* Mulford, Ronald J (1935). History of the Lawrenceville School 1810–1935. Princeton University Press
1812 births
1899 deaths
American Presbyterians
19th-century American clergy
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