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    American theologian, clergyman, Yale President 1727-1795

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    Ezra Stiles House (1756–1776) Education. Yale College. Signature. 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.

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  4. Mar 11, 2022 · By this time, Stiles was also busy keeping daily records of 18th-century life. For 32 years he recorded daily temperature highs and lows, gathered population figures, and records of births, deaths, and marriages. In addition, he conducted interviews with Native Americans and members of the Jewish community—recording their experiences for ...

  5. Jun 22, 2013 · Inside a Connecticut Indian Wigwam. In the fall of 1761, Ezra Stiles visited the Western Niantic Indian community in the Niantic-East Lyme, Connecticut area. Of the several Indian dwellings or wigwams standing there, he made sketches of two in particular, that of George Waukeets and Phoebe and Eliza Moheage. Both residences are representative ...

  6. Sep 8, 2023 · Ezra Stiles was born in North Haven, Connecticut, in 1727 to Reverend Isaac Stiles and Kezia Taylor Stiles. Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746 and was ordained as a minister three years later. His ensuing life achievements make it easy to celebrate him as the “most learned man in New England.”

  7. Ezra Stiles College is named to honor the memory of Ezra Stiles, Yale Class of 1746, an eminent American theologian, lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, who served as the seventh President of Yale from 1778 to 1795. The distinguished historian Edmund Morgan characterized Ezra Stiles as follows: “Although he became the most learned man of his ...

  8. Ezra Stiles was a son of Isaac Stiles (1697-1760) (Yale 1722), minister in North Haven, Connecticut, and Kezia Taylor Stiles (1702-1727), a daughter of clergyman and poet Edward Taylor (1642-1729) (Harvard 1671), of Westfield, Massachusetts. Ezra Stiles married Elizabeth Hubbard (1731-1775) in 1757, and married Mary Checkley in 1782.

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