Eliphaz Fay

Eliphaz Fay
Fourth President of Colby College
In office 1841–1843
Preceded by	Robert Everett Pattison
Succeeded by	David Newton Sheldon
Personal details
Born	(1797-04-27)April 27, 1797 Marlborough, Massachusetts
Died	March 19, 1854(1854-03-19) (aged 56) Poughkeepsie, New York
Spouse	Mary Helen Lee ​ (m. 1829)​
Alma mater	Brown University

Eliphaz Fay (April 27, 1797 – March 19, 1854) served as the fourth president of Colby College (then called the Waterville College) in Maine.[1]

Personal life

Fay was born to Solomon Fay, and Suzannah Morse, a schoolteacher in Marlborough, Massachusetts.[2] Graduated from Brown University in 1821.[3] He married Mary Helen (Lee) on April 20, 1829.[2] His children were Susan Mary, William Wirt, Henry Harrison, Caroline Louise.[2]

Work

Fay had a career as a lawyer.[1] In 1832 he was the first principal of New Paltz Academy.[1] From 1833-1834 he published The Independence, a newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, which "advocate(d) the cause of Anti-Masonry, literature, science, temperance, morality and religion." Editor: Eliphaz Fay, 1832-1834.[4]

Elected President of Colby College in August 1841, after a year when the college had no president for the prior year. The enrollment was 76.[5]

References

1. Burrage, Henry S (1904). History of the Baptists in Maine. Marks Printing House. p. 214.
2. Dwight, Benjamin W (1871). The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass, Volume 2. J. Munsell. Retrieved 2013-06-20.
3. "Dr. Arthur Jeremiah Roberts, President of Colby College since 1908". Lewiston Evening Journal. Jun 25, 1920. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
4. The independence (Newspaper, 1832). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 191286509. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
5. United States. Office of Education (1903). Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education. Government Printing Office.

External links

• The Evening of Life, written by Chaplin, and republished several times
• Portrait of Chaplin