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Heman Humphrey (March 26, 1779 – April 3, 1861) was a 19th-century American author and clergyman who served as a trustee of Williams College and afterward as the second president of Amherst College, a post he held for 22 years.[1][2][3][4]

Heman Humphrey
President of Amherst College
In office 1823–1845
Preceded by	Zephaniah Swift Moore
Succeeded by	Edward Hitchcock
Personal details
Born	(1779-03-26)March 26, 1779 West Simsbury, Connecticut
Died	April 3, 1861(1861-04-03) (aged 82) Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Spouse(s)	Sophia Porter (1785-1868)
Alma mater	Yale University class of 1805.
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Early life and education

Humphrey was born in West Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (which became Canton, Connecticut) to farmer Solomon Humphrey, of a family that came from England before 1643, and Hannah, daughter of Captain John Brown.[5]

Humphrey graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805 and was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He became a minister in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1807, moving to Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1817. His 1813 report to the Fairfield Association is one of the earliest temperance tracts published in America.[6] Humphrey is also said to have published six articles in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine on the cause, origin, effects and remedy of intemperance.[7]

Following his tenure at Williams College, in 1825 he was appointed president of Amherst.[8] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842.[9] Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition.[10] He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.

Bibliography

• Humphrey, Heman (1813). Intemperance: an address, to the churches and congregations of the Western district of Fairfield County. New Haven, Connecticut: Eli Hudson. p. 31.
• Humphrey, Heman (1826). Debates of conscience, with a distiller, wholesale dealer, and a retailer. New York: American Tract Society. p. 16.
• Humphrey, Heman (1828). Parallel Between Intemperance and the Slave Trade: An Address Delivered at Amherst College, July 4, 1828. Amherst, MA: J. S. & C. Adams. p. 42 – via Google Books.
• Humphrey, Heman (1854). The Missouri Compromise. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Reed, Hull & Peirson. pp. 32. OL 7171247M – via Internet Archive.
• Humphrey, Heman (1859). Revival Sketches and Manual: in Two Parts. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: American Tract Society. OL 6363048M – via Internet Archive.

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Academic offices
Preceded by Zephaniah Swift Moore	President of Amherst College 1823–1845	Succeeded by Edward Hitchcock

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