 1773 - 1867 (94 years)
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| Name |
Jeremiah Day |
| Title |
Reverend |
| Born |
3 Aug 1773 |
New Milford, Litchfield County, CT  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
22 Aug 1867 |
New Haven, New Haven County, CT [1] |
| Person ID |
I23091 |
Day Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
15 Nov 2017 |
| Father |
Reverend Jeremiah Day, b. 25 Jan 1737, Colchester, New London County, CT , d. 12 Sep 1806, New Preston, Litchfield County, CT (Age 69 years) |
| Mother |
Abigail Noble, b. 18 Nov 1740, New Milford, Litchfield County, CT , d. 1 Jun 1810, Washington, Litchfield County, CT (Age 69 years) |
| Married |
7 Oct 1772 |
New Milford, Litchfield County, CT [2] |
| Family ID |
F8412 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Martha Sherman, b. 24 Sep 1779, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 4 Apr 1806, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 26 years) |
| Married |
14 Jan 1805 |
New Haven, New Haven County, CT [3, 4] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sherman Day, b. 13 Feb 1806, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 14 Dec 1884, Berkeley, Alameda County, CA (Age 78 years) |
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| Family ID |
F8841 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Olivia Jones, b. 3 Jan 1786, Hartford County, CT , d. 11 Jan 1850/1851, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 65 years) |
| Married |
24 Sep 1811 |
Hartford, Hartford County, CT [5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Martha Day, b. 15 Feb 1813, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 2 Dec 1833, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 20 years) |
| | 2. Jeremiah Day, b. 1 Jul 1815, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 4 Dec 1816, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 1 years) |
| | 3. Henry Day, b. 4 Nov 1817, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 17 Feb 1840, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 22 years) |
| | 4. Elizabeth Day, b. 24 Dec 1820, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 18 May 1858, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 37 years) |
| | 5. Mary Day, b. 5 Nov 1823, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 28 Mar 1829, New Haven, New Haven County, CT (Age 5 years) |
| | 6. Olivia Day, b. 24 Sep 1826, New Haven, New Haven County, CT , d. 19 Aug 1853, Williamsburg, Kings County, NY (Age 26 years) |
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| Family ID |
F8843 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Event Map |
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 | Married - 24 Sep 1811 - Hartford, Hartford County, CT |
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| Notes |
- Jeremiah's studies preparatory for college were pursued with David Hale, in New
Preston, Conn., and Joseph Badger and John Kingsbury, in Waterbury, Conn. He graduated at
Yale College in 1795; was a tutor in Williams College, 1796-98; professor of mathematics,
natural philosophy, and astronomy in Yale College, 1803-17; and president of Yale College,
1817-46.
During Mr. Day's professorship, he publised an "Introduction to Algebra" and also a
"Course of Mathematics", embracing principles of plane trigonometry, mensuration, navigation,
and surveying, all of which had a wide circulation. While president, he published an "Enquiry
Respecting Contingent Volition"; and an "Examination of Edward's Enquiry as to the Freedom
of the Will".
In 1817, Middlebury College conferred on him the degree of doctor of laws, and Union
College, in 1818, and Harvard College, in 1831, the degree of doctor of divinity. Although Yale
College had been very fortunate in its presidents, it had never been more prosperous than under
President Day. His learning and talent united to great kindness of heart, secured alike the respect
and love of the thousands of pupils committed to his charge. For twenty years after his
resignation he continued to serve the college as a member of the corporation, retiring from the
board only the year before his death.
In early life he was threatened with consumption. But by constant, persistent, and
self-denying attention to the laws of health, he attained a more advanced age than most of his
contemporaries, and was at his death the oldest resident of New Haven, Conn.
"I suppose," says President Woolsey, in the address at his funeral commemorative of his
life and services, "that if the nearly 2,500 graduates of Yale College who were educated here
under President Day, were asked, who was the best man they knew, they would, with a very
general agreement, assign him that high place." "We bury him not knowing whether so good a
man shall ever appear among us, or in the times of our children again. We bury him, a man of
clear intellect, who lived in harmony with all political, moral, religious truth, without a grain of
party spirit, bigotry, or uncharitableness in his temper, who had a full-orbed character, in which
calmness, self-control, meekness, tenderness, unselfishness, all the virtues found their radiance.
We bury him above all, a servant of Christ, eminently like the Master, thankful that we have
known such a man, and that the remembrance of him may be a guide and a help to us in the
remainder of this earthly life." (Source: Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass., by Lucius
M. Boltwood, 1878, pp. 102-103)
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| Sources |
- [S27] Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass., by Lucius M. Boltwood, 1878, 102 (Reliability: 3).
- [S27] Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass., by Lucius M. Boltwood, 1878, 64 (Reliability: 3).
- [S27] Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass., by Lucius M. Boltwood, 1878, 103 (Reliability: 3).
- [S103] Ancestry.com.
- [S217] Family History: Ancestors of Russel Snow Hitchcock, Bath, Maine May 1947, 103 (Reliability: 3).
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