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Alonzo Ames Miner

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Alonzo Ames Miner
2nd President of Tufts College
In office
1862–1875
Preceded byHosea Ballou II
Succeeded byElmer Hewitt Capen
Personal details
Born(1814-08-17)August 17, 1814
Lempster, New Hampshire
DiedJune 14, 1895(1895-06-14) (aged 80)
Boston, Massachusetts
SpouseMaria S. Perley m. August 1836
ProfessionUniversalist Minister
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Alonzo Ames Miner (August 17, 1814 – June 14, 1895) was a Universalist minister. He was the second president of Tufts University.

Origins

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Born in Lempster, New Hampshire, he was the second of five children and only son of Benajah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. His father was a descendant of the colonist Thomas Miner.

He married Maria S. Perley in August 1836.[1]

Career

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He taught school in rural Vermont and New Hampshire before being ordained a Universalist minister in 1839. He served as pastor to churches in Methuen, Lowell, and Boston, Massachusetts.[2]

Miner supported many moral and civic causes, at various times serving on the Board of Trustees at Tufts College, the Board of Overseers at Harvard (appointed 1863),[2] the Massachusetts Board of Education (from 1869, serving 24 years),[2] the Board of Visitors to the Massachusetts normal school.[2] For 21 years, he was president of the Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance, and he was the Prohibition candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1878.[2] One of the founders of Tufts, he rescued the college from near bankruptcy and instituted many new educational programs as president from 1862 to 1875.

Alonzo Ames Miner died at his home in Boston on June 14, 1895.[3]

References

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  • Emerson, George H. (1896). Life of Alonzo Ames Miner. Universalist Publishing House.
  • Alonzo Ames Miner, 1862 – Tufts Interactive Timeline

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Rand, John Clark (1890), One of a Thousand: a Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men, Boston, MA: First National Publishing Company, pp. 415–416, retrieved April 16, 2021 – via Google Books
  2. ^ a b c d e "Miner, Alonzo Ames" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
  3. ^ "Dr. Miner Dead". The Boston Globe. June 15, 1895. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved April 16, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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Academic offices
Preceded by 2nd
President of
Tufts College

1862–1875
Succeeded by