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He continued as an active member of the Dartmouth College community, in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], until his death in 1870. |
He continued as an active member of the Dartmouth College community, in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], until his death in 1870. |
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He married Elizabeth King Leland (1792-1870) and they had ten children;<ref>[https://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ms510_biohist.html Lord Family papers, 1710-1967]</ref> his youngest son, Nathan Lord Jr., (1831-1885), was a colonel of the [[6th Vermont Infantry|6th Regiment of Vermont Volunteers]] in the Civil War.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_tbNAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA209&ots=Tezo0Kij2y&dq=Nathan%20Lord%20Jr.%20colonel&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false Vermont in the Civil War: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5, by G. G. Benedict.] Burlington, Vt.: Free Press Association, 1886-1888</ref> |
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* http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/succession/lord.html |
* [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/succession/lord.html The Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth Presidents] |
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Revision as of 04:32, 31 December 2019
Nathan Lord | |
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| 6th President of Dartmouth College | |
| In office 1828–1863 | |
| Preceded by | Bennet Tyler |
| Succeeded by | Asa Dodge Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 28, 1793 Berwick, Maine |
| Died | September 9, 1870 (aged 77) Hanover, New Hampshire |
Nathan Lord (November 28, 1793 – September 9, 1870) was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator who served as president of Dartmouth College for more than three decades.
He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809, attended Andover Theological Seminary. He served as president of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863. Lord was able to bring the college out of debt, improve the overall curriculum, and raise admission levels.
He was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society,[1]: 264 and in 1833 was its Vice President.[2] But his views on slavery changed dramatically; he came to see it as "not a moral evil", but "an ordinance of...God",[3]: 30 which "providentially found a settlement in this country".[3]: 26 These views and his opposition to the Civil War,[4] which he blamed on abolitionists,[2]brought a storm of controversy, earning him the enmity of several members of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, including Amos Tuck (1835), a founding member of the Republican Party and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Matters came to a head in 1863 when the Trustees were deadlocked on awarding an honorary degree to President Lincoln, and Lord broke the tie by voting against it. The Trustees issued a statement: "Neither the trustees nor the Faculty coincide with the president of the College in the views which he has published, touching slavery and the war; and it has been our hope that the College would not be judged a partisan institution by reason of such publications."[2] Lord tendered his resignation.
He continued as an active member of the Dartmouth College community, in Hanover, New Hampshire, until his death in 1870.
Family
He married Elizabeth King Leland (1792-1870) and they had ten children;[5] his youngest son, Nathan Lord Jr., (1831-1885), was a colonel of the 6th Regiment of Vermont Volunteers in the Civil War.[6]
References
- ^ Template:Cite article
- ^ a b c Lawhon, Samuel W. (October 10, 2016). "A History of Opposition". =Dartmouth Review. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ a b Lord, Nathan (1854). A letter of inquiry to ministers of the gospel of all denominations, on slavery. By a Northern Presbyter. Boston: Fetridge and Company.
- ^ John Scales, "Biographical Sketches of the Class of 1863, Dartmouth College" p 39
- ^ Lord Family papers, 1710-1967
- ^ Vermont in the Civil War: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5, by G. G. Benedict. Burlington, Vt.: Free Press Association, 1886-1888
Further reading
- Waters, Lawrence Leslie (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.
- The Wheelock Succession of Dartmouth Presidents
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