History of North Dennis, (Barnstable County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Joseph Haven, educator, was born in North Dennis, Mass., Jan. 4, 1816; son of the Rev. Joseph and Elizabeth (Sparrow) Haven; grandson of the Rev. Joseph Haven and a descendant of Richard Haven, who came from England to Lynn, Mass., in 1645. He was graduated at Amherst college, A.B., 1835, A.M., 1838; and was a teacher in the New York deaf and dumb institution, 1835-37. He studied at Union theological seminary, 1836-37, and at Andover theological seminary, 1837-39, and was graduated from the latter in 1839. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Nov. 6, 1839, and was pastor of Congregational church, Ashland, Mass., 1839-46, and of Harvard church, Brookline, Mass., 1846-50. He was professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Amherst college, 1850-58, and professor of systematic theology in the Chicago theological seminary, 1858-70. He travelled in Germany, Palestine and Egypt, 1870-71; was preacher and lecturer at the University of Chicago, 1871-73, and acting professor of mental and moral philosophy in Chicago university, 1873-74. He was married Sept. 23, 1840, to Mary, daughter of Professor Ralph Emerson of Andover, Mass. He was president of the Philosophical society of Chicago. He received the degree of D.D. from Marietta in 1859, and from Amherst in 1862, and that of LL.D. from Kenyon in 1862. He edited The Congregationalist, Boston, 1846-50; contributed to the Bibliotheca Sacra and other reviews, and is the author of: Mental Philosophy (1857); Moral Philosophy (1859); Studies in Philosophy and Theology (1869); Systematic Divinity (1875); and History of Philosophy, Ancient and Modern (1876). He died in Chicago, Ill., May 23, 1874.

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

History of North Dennis, (Barnstable County) Massachusetts

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