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Note: Samuel Harvey Taylor Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: �Ctab�DOct. 3, 1807 Death: �Ctab�DJan. 29, 1871 Andover Essex County Massachusetts, USA Inscription on tombstone: SAMUEL HARVEY TAYLOR. Born October 3, 1807. Principal of Phillips Academy from 1837 to 1871 Six thousand pupils were uner his care from 1829 to 1871. Surrounded by his Bible Class on Sabbath morning January 29, 1871, he fell and died in the vestibule of Phillips Academy. Family links: Parents: James Taylor (____ - 1864) Persis Hemphill Taylor (____ - 1858) Burial: Phillips Academy Cemetery Andover Essex County Massachusetts, USA Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: Debbie Cromwell Record added: Apr 28, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 36478120 266 HISTORY OF WINDHAM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Hon. George W. Patterson, of Westlield, N. Y., was president of the day, and among the vice-jn-esidents were Samuel W. Simp- son, James Anderson, Loren Thayer, and Theodore Dinsmoor, of Windham. Hon. Charles H. Bell (the present Governor of New Hampshire) was selected to deliver the principal address. On the day chosen, some ten thousand people met and cele- brated the anniversary. Among the distinguished speakers, be- sides the orator of the day, were Horace Greeley, Hon. James W. Patterson, Hon. E. H. Derby, of Boston, and Samuel H. Taylor, LL. D., of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Samuel Harvey Taylor TAYLOR, Samuel Harvey, educator, born in Derry, New Hampshire, 3 October, 1807 ; died in Andover, Massachusetts, 29 January, 1871. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1832, and at Andover theological seminary in 1837, when he took charge of Phillips Andover academy, having been a tutor in Dartmouth college during the last two years of his theological course. He was principal of the academy till his death, holding a high position among the classical scholars and instructors of the country. In 1852 he became associate editor of the "Bibliotheca Sacra," succeeding Bela B. Edwards. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him in 1854 by Brown. He was the translator and editor of text-books of Greek and Latin philology from the German, the author of " Method of Classical Study" (Boston, 1861), and the compiler of "Classical Study: its Value Illustrated by Extracts from the Writings of Eminent Scholars" (Andover, 1870). Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright � 2001 VirtualologyTM
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