Ezra Stiles | |
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,_B.A._1746,_M.A._1749_-_1955.3.1_-_Yale_University_Art_Gallery.jpg) Stiles, 1770–1771, by Samuel King | |
| 7th President of Yale University | |
| In office 1778–1795 | |
| Preceded by | Naphtali Daggett as pro tempore |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Dwight IV |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 North Haven, Connecticut Colony |
| Died | May 12, 1795 (aged 67) New Haven, Connecticut |
| Relations | Edward Taylor (grandfather) |
| Children | Betsey Stiles; Ruth (Stiles) Gannett; Emilia (Stiles) Leavitt; Polly (Stiles) Holmes; Isaac Stiles |
| Residence | Ezra Stiles House (1756–1776) |
| Education | Yale College |
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Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795)[1][2] was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.[3][4] According to religious historian Timothy L. Hall, Stiles' tenure at Yale distinguishes him as "one of the first great American college presidents."[5]
- ^ Stiles, Ezra (1901). The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Jan. 1, 1769l-Mar. 13, 1776. C. Scribner's sons. p. 1.
- ^ Holmes, Abiel (1798). The Life of Ezra Stiles ... President of Yale College, p. 9.
- ^ Welch, Lewis et al. (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics, p. 445.
- ^ Edmund S Morgan, The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727–1795 (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1962), 205.
- ^ Hall, Timothy L. (2003). American Religious Leaders. New York: Facts On File. p. 343. ISBN 0-8160-4534-8. OCLC 49284351.