History of Dublin, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Samuel Carroll Derby, educator, was born at Dublin, N.H., March 3, 1842; son of Dexter and Julia (Piper) Derby; grandson of Samuel and Betsey (Knowlton) Derby, and of John Brooks and Julia (Greenwood) Piper, and a descendant of John Derby, Marblehead, Mass., 1677, and of Nathaniel Piper of Ipswich, Mass., who died in 1676. His ancestors were English and among the early settlers of New England. His early years were spent upon a farm. He was prepared for college at Appleton academy, New Ipswich, N.H., and was graduated from Harvard in 1866. He was principal of the Union school at Ilion, N.Y., 1866-67, and instructor in Mr. E. S. Dixwell's Latin school, Boston, 1867-70. In 1870 he was appointed professor of English and German in Antioch college, Yellow Springs, Ohio, afterward changing his chair to that of Latin. He became acting president of the college in 1873, and president in 1877, a position which he resigned in 1881 to accept the chair of Greek and Latin in the Ohio state university at Columbus. In 1883 the chair was divided and he was made professor of the Latin language and literature. From 1881 to 1892 he was librarian of the university. The years 1876-77 and 1892-93 were spent by him in post-graduate study at Harvard; and several months of 1880-81 were similarly employed at Johns Hopkins university in the study of Latin and history. In 1896 he was made dean of the College of arts, philosophy and science, Ohio state university. He was elected a member of the American historical association in 1884 and of the American philological association, 1895. Harvard conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1877.

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

History of Dublin, (Cheshire County) New Hampshire

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