Leonard Hoar

Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England and produced works on biblical scholarship. After Charles Chauncy died, he was immediately elected and installed as the president of Harvard on December 10, 1672; which position he held until he resigned on March 15, 1675. He died nine months later.

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1630 - November 28 - 1675 - Harvard College - 1650 - Cambridge University - England - Charles Chauncy - President - December 10 - 1672 - March 15

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His epitaph in the Hancock Cemetery at Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts reads ...

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Quincy - Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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::Leonard Hoar - died Nov.28,1675 in Boston a.45, and interred here Dec.6, new gs.

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He was not well liked by his students or apparently even the people of Massachusetts in part due to his radical religious views. In Daniel Munro Wilson, Where American Independence Began (1902), pp. 53–54, the author writes ...

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:"At all events the students fell away from the president, and 'set themselves to Travestie whatever he did and said, and aggravate everything in his behavior disagreeable to them, with a design to make him Odious'."

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(Quoting from Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana).

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Cotton Mather - Magnalia Christi Americana

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:"He was forced to resign ... 'his grief threw him into a Consumption whereof he died November 28, 1675 in Boston'. (Cotton Mather)"

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