Eliphaz Fay
{{Short description|American college president (1797–1854)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Eliphaz Fay
|image =
|order = Fourth
|title = President of Colby College
|term_start = 1841
|term_end = 1843
|predecessor = Robert Everett Pattison
|successor = David Newton Sheldon
|birth_date = {{birth date|1797|04|27}}
|birth_place = Marlborough, Massachusetts
|death_date = {{death date and age|1854|03|19|1797|04|27}}
|death_place = Poughkeepsie, New York
|alma_mater = Brown University
|spouse = {{marriage|Mary Helen Lee|1829}}
|}}
Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 – March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine.{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924010411878 | page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924010411878/page/n247 214] | title=History of the Baptists in Maine | publisher=Marks Printing House | author=Burrage, Henry S | year=1904}}
Personal life
Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in Marlborough, Massachusetts.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWJmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA963 | title=The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass, Volume 2 | publisher=J. Munsell | year=1871 | access-date=2013-06-20 | author=Dwight, Benjamin W}} Graduated from Brown University in 1821.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19200625&id=W2QgAAAAIBAJ&pg=2662,7676447 | title=Dr. Arthur Jeremiah Roberts, President of Colby College since 1908 | work=Lewiston Evening Journal | date=Jun 25, 1920 | access-date=2013-06-25}} He married Mary Helen (Lee) on April 20, 1829. His children were Susan Mary, William Wirt, Henry Harrison, Caroline Louise.
Work
Fay had a career as a lawyer. In 1832 he was the first principal of New Paltz Academy. From 1833-1834 he published The Independence, a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, which "advocate(d) the cause of Anti-Masonry, literature, science, temperance, morality and religion."
Editor: Eliphaz Fay, 1832-1834.{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191286509 |title=The independence (Newspaper, 1832) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |oclc=191286509 |access-date=2014-01-03}}
Elected President of Colby College in August 1841, after a year when the college had no president for the prior year. The enrollment was 76.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NGcVXtoJFwC&pg=RA1-PA113 | title=Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education | publisher=Government Printing Office | author=United States. Office of Education | year=1903}}
References
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External links
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=O2sXAAAAYAAJ The Evening of Life, written by Chaplin, and republished several times]
- [http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=12580 Portrait of Chaplin]
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Category:Presidents of Colby College
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Category:19th-century Baptist ministers from the United States