History of New Preston, (Litchfield County) Connecticut United States of America

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Henry Noble Day, educator, was born in New Preston, Conn., Aug. 4, 1808; son of Noble Day; grandson of the Rev. Jeremiah Day, and nephew of Jeremiah Day, president of Yale college. He was prepared for college chiefly at New Preston academy and the Hartford grammar school, and was graduated from Yale in 1828. He was tutor at Yale, 1831-34; spent the year 1834-35 in Europe; and was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church in Waterbury, Conn., Nov. 9, 1836. His ministry there terminated Oct. 1, 1840, on his acceptance of the chair of rhetoric and homiletics in Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio. In 1858 he resigned this charge and was president of the Ohio female college, Cincinnati, 1858-64. He resigned the office in 1864 and removed to New Haven, Conn., where he devoted himself to the preparation of textbooks. Iowa state university conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1877. He also received the degree of D.D. from Farmer's college, Cincinnati, and that of LL.D. from Ingham university, N.Y. Besides numerous contributions to the leading periodicals he is the author of: The Art of Elocution (1844; rev. ed., 1860); The Art of Rhetoric (1850); Fundamental Philosophy (1848); Rhetorical Praxis (1860); The Art of Bookkeeping (1861); The Logic of Sir William Hamilton (1868); Elements of Logic (1867); The Art of Discourse (1867); The Art of Composition (1867); The American Speller (1867); Introduction to the Study of English Literature (1867); The Young Composer (1870); Logical Praxis (1872); The Science of ?sthetics (1872); The Elements of Psychology (1876); The Science of Ethics (1876); Outlines of Ontological Science, or a Philosophy of Knowledge and Being (1878); The Science of Thought (1886); The Elements of Mental Science (1886); The Science of Education (1889). He died in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 12, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jeremiah Day, educator, was born in New Preston, Conn., Aug. 3, 1773; son of the Rev. Jeremiah Day; grandson of Thomas Day, and a descendant of Robert Day who came to America in 1634 and was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn. His father (born Jan. 26, 1738) was graduated at Yale in 1756; studied theology first under the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, and later in life under the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith; was pastor at New Preston, Conn., and one of the early missionaries from Connecticut to the new settlements, 1788; and died Sept. 12, 1806. The son was graduated at Yale with honors in 1795; was head master of the Greenfield school, 1796; tutor at Williams, 1796-98; tutor at Yale, 1798-1801; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Yale, 1801-20; and president of that institution, 1817-46. He was ordained to the ministry, July 23, 1817. He was a fellow of Yale college, 1846-67, and a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences. He received the degree of M.A. from Yale and from Williams in 1798; that of LL.D. from Middlebury in 1818; and that of D.D. from Union in 1818, and from Harvard in 1831. He published an Algebra (1814) which passed through many editions and was revised by himself in collaboration with Professor Stanley in 1852. He also published: Mensuration of Superficies and Solids (1814); An Examination of President Edward' s Inquiry as to the Freedom of the Will (1814); Plane Trigonometry (1815); Navigation and Surveying (1817); and An Inquiry on the Self-determining Power of the Will, or Contingent Volition (1838-1849). He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 22, 1867.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Thomas Day, jurist, was born in New Preston, Conn., July 6, 1777; son of the Rev. Jeremiah Day (1738-1806). He was a younger brother of the Rev. Jeremiah Day, LL.D., president of Yale college. He was graduated at Yale in 1797 and studied law in Litchfield, Conn. He was a tutor at Williams college, 1798-99; was admitted to the bar in 1799, and practised in Hartford. He was appointed assistant secretary of state of Connecticut in 1809, and was secretary of state 1810-35. He was associate judge of the Hartford county court, 1815-25, one year excepted, and chief judge, 1825-33. He was also judge of the city court of Hartford, 1818-31, and reporter of the decisions of the court of error, 1805-53. He edited various English law works, and was a charter member of the Connecticut historical society and its president, 1839-55. Yale and Williams gave him the degree of A.M. in 1800, and Yale that of LL.D. in 1847. He died in Hartford, Conn., March 1, 1855.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor