Merrill Edwards Gates
Merrill Edwards Gates | |
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President of Amherst College | |
| In office 1890–1899 | |
| Preceded by | Julius Hawley Seelye |
| Succeeded by | George Harris |
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| Born | Merrill Edwards Gates April 6, 1848 Seth Merrill Gates |
| Education | The Albany Academy University of Rochester |
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Merrill Edwards Gates (April 6, 1848 – August 11, 1922) was the ninth
President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1882 to 1890, and the sixth President of Amherst College, serving from 1890 to 1899.[1]
Biography
He was born at
Seth Merrill Gates.[1]
Gates received his baccalaureate degree at the University of Rochester, where he achieved high honors in Mathematics, Latin and Greek, and received the English Essay Prize in his senior year.[2]
He served as principal for twelve years at
LL.D. degree from Columbia University in 1891 and from Williams College in 1893. Columbia University also conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) in 1887.[2] He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1886.[3]
During his tenure as President of Rutgers College, which began in 1882, Gates built the college's first dormitory,
Morrill Act of 1890, increase funding for the scientific school.[2]
In 1890, Gates resigned as
President of Amherst College (from 1890 to 1899) in Massachusetts.[4]
After his tenure at Amherst, Gates was appointed to be
Congregational Church.[2]
He died at his summer home in Littleton, New Hampshire on August 11, 1922, he was 74 years old.[5]
Selected works
- Land and Law as Agents in Educating the Indians (1885)
- Sidney Lanier, Poet and Artist (1887)
- International Arbitration (1897)
- The Highest Use of Wealth (1901)
- Men of Mark in America (1905-6)
References
- ^ a b "Merrill Edwards Gates". Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (Originally Queen's College) in n New Brunswick, N. J, 1766 To 1916. 1916. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
His father, Seth M. Gates, in Congress from 1839 to 1843, and throughout a long life, was widely known and honorably distinguished for his services in the cause of liberty, justice and Christianity. ...
- ^ a b c d "Merrill Edwards Gates, 1882-1890". Rutgers University. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
- New York Times. August 30, 1890.
- Washington Post. August 12, 1922. Retrieved July 25, 2008.
Word was received in Washington last night that Merrill Edwards Gates, of 1309 Rhode Island avenue northwest, died yesterday at Littleton, where he was spending the summer. He was 74 years old. Funeral services will be held at Bethlehem, N. H., tomorrow, and the interment will be in Warsaw, N. Y.
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