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Note: Notes for REV. AARON BURR: Rev. Aaron Burr, Pastor of the Church, at Newark, N. J., and afterwards Second President of the College at Princeton. Presbyterian minister at Newark, and eminent both as a scholar and as a divine. The New York Mercury of Monday, October 10, 1757, contained this notice of President Burr's death: Nassau Hall, New Jersey, September 29th, 1757. On Monday last was interred Rev. Mr. Aaron Burr, President of the college. He died on the 24th inst., in the 41st year of his age. His funeral was attended by several ministers, all the students, and a large number of neighboring inhabitants Universal was the grief on the melancholy occasion; and the loss of so valuable a man diffuses a general sorrow among all ranks of people. He was born at Fairfield, in Connecticut, and descended from one of the most considerable families in New England. His education he had at Yale College in New Haven and was reputed one of the best scholars in his class. He offered himself to an examination as a candidate for the Dean's bounty, and was adjudged worthy to enjoy that benefaction.
Then follows an account of his settlement in Newark and his presidency of the College of New Jersey: By his pupils he was beloved as a friend, and like a father revered and honored. In promoting the prosperity of the seminary, over which he presided, he was discouraged by no disappointment, but of unwearied assiduity and inflexible resolution. By his pious instruction and example, his affectionate addresses and gentle discipline he initiated the students as well into the school of Jesus as into the literature of Greece and Rome, and ennured even youth in full luxury of blood to fly the infectious world, and tread the paths of virtue....In him the Churches have lost a distinguished divine, the College a learned and faithful head, the poor a liberal, beneficent friend, his lady the best of husbands and the commonwealth an incorruptible patriot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr,_Sr.
"President of Princeton University
Term 1747 1757
Predecessor Jonathan Dickinson
Successor Jonathan Edwards
Born January 4, 1716(1716-01-04)
Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
Died September 24, 1757(1757-09-24) (aged 41)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Religion Christian (Calvinist)
The Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr., (January 4, 1716 September 24, 1757) was a notable divine and educator in colonial America. He was a founder of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and the father of the third United States Vice President, Aaron Burr (17561836), who killed Alexander Hamilton.
Biography
A native of Connecticut, Burr was born in 1716 in present day Fairfield to Daniel Burr, a wealthy landowner. He was of English ancestry (his grandfather Jehu Burr had been born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, in 1625, settled in the Connecticut Colony as a young man, and died there in 1692). Aaron Burr attended Yale College (now Yale University), where he obtained a B.A. in 1735. After graduation, he became a Presbyterian minister in Newark, New Jersey, also conducting a school in classical studies there. In 1752, he married Esther Edwards, daughter of the New England divine, Jonathan Edwards, and his wife Sarah, daughter of the Rev. James Pierpont. Jonathan Edwards was a leader of the First Great Awakening, a significant religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s.
In the 1740s, a controversy over religious doctrines led to a split in the faculty and student body at Yale. In opposition to Yale's first president, the Rev. Thomas Clap, Jonathan Edwards, Burr, and Jonathan Dickinson founded the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) at Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1746. Dickinson was elected first president of the College, but died soon after in 1747. Burr then became the second president. During his tenure (1748 1757), the curriculum was settled, the student body increased significantly, and the College moved to its permanent home at Princeton, New Jersey. He supervised the construction of Nassau Hall, Princeton's best-known structure, completed in 1756. Burr, elected at age 32, was also the youngest person ever to serve as president of Princeton.
Publication notice of a pamphlet by Burr (Boston: Edward E. Powars, 1791)In 1755, Burr was relieved of his pastoral duties in order to concentrate full-time on his work at Princeton. In the fall of 1757, Burr died in Princeton of fever, believed to have been brought on or aggravated by overwork. His remains were interred in the President's Lot at Princeton Cemetery."
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