Alonzo Ames Miner

Background

Miner, Alonzo Ames was born on August 17, 1814 in Lempster, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Benjah and Amanda (Carey) Ames.

Education

South.T.D. (honorary), Harvard, 1863. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Tufts, 1875.

Career

Born in Lempster, New Hampshire, he was the second of five children and only son of Benajah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. His father was a descendant of the colonist Thomas Miner. He taught school in rural Vermont and New Hampshire before being ordained a Universalist minister in 1839.

Miner supported many moral and civic causes, at various times being on the Board of Trustees at Tufts, the Board of Overseers at Harvard, and the Massachusetts Board of Education.

One of the founders of Tufts, he rescued the college from near bankruptcy and instituted many new educational programs as president

Achievements

• Alonzo Ames Miner has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman, college president by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Bible Exercises: Or The Sunday School One Class

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Connections

Married Maria South. Perley, August 24, 1836.

Father:

Benjah Ames

Mother:

Amanda (Carey) Ames

Spouse:

Maria South. Perley