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Cyrus Hamlin was born on January 5, 1811, near Waterford, Maine, United States, the son of Hannibal and Susan (Faulkner) Hamlin. His father and the father of Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin were twin brothers; his mother was a daughter of Francis Faulkner of Acton, Massachusetts.
Hamlin attended public schools until apprenticed at the age of sixteen to his brother-in-law, a Portland silversmith. Two terms at an academy in North Bridgton, Maine, with study at home, prepared him for Bowdoin College. Able student, skilful constructor of scientific models, and leader in college life, he graduated in 1834 and spent the next three years at Bangor (Maine) Theological Seminary preparing for missionary work.
Appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to establish a school in Turkey, Cyrus Hamlin sailed in December 1838 and reached Constantinople the following February. After studying local languages, he opened in 1840 at Bebek on the Bosphorus a school and theological seminary which he directed for twenty years. Despite the disapproval of other missionaries, he established a workshop where his needy Armenian students manufactured iron stoves, stove pipes, and rat traps. A bakery and steam flour mill, begun to provide employment for boycotted Armenian Protestants, were expanded during the Crimean War to furnish bread for British hospitals, and washing machines were improvised for an establishment which cleaned the soldiers’ vermin-infested clothing. The $25, 000 thus earned paid for thirteen native Protestant churches.
Differences with the American Board, which was replacing English with Armenian in its schools, caused Hamlin to resign in May 1860 and visit in New York Christopher Rhinelander Robert, a wealthy merchant who wished to found a college at Constantinople. Plans were concerted and an endowment campaign begun when the Civil War interfered. In 1861 Hamlin returned to Constantinople and bought a magnificent site at Roumeli Hissar with money furnished by Robert. Since foreign opposition prevented immediate building, he opened Robert College in 1863 at Bebek. During the next eight years the institution grew rapidly, while its president persistently negotiated for a building permit which was only granted by the Sultan after Admiral Farragut’s visit had been mistaken for an armed threat. Having moved the college in 1871 to its new building, constructed under his own minute supervision, Hamlin visited America on a brief but discouraging campaign for money.
Leaving Constantinople again in October 1873, Hamlin continued his effort to obtain endowment, but was so seriously handicapped by his own dangerous illness and the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War that the results were meager. Convinced that he would be better employed in directing the college, he decided in 1877 to return, but Robert, who had always been his intimate friend and loyal collaborator, was persuaded by the failure to obtain money and by an unfortunate misunderstanding to dismiss him without warning from the presidency.
Deprived of his life-work at the age of sixty-six and deeply wounded, Hamlin never complained publicly. That summer he wrote the interesting story of his thirty-five years in Turkey, Among the Turks, and in the autumn became professor at the Bangor Theological Seminary. Three years later, learning that his theological views were considered antiquated and his support of prohibition too ardent, he resigned to take the presidency of Middlebury College in Vermont. During five strenuous years he thoroughly reorganized the college and rescued it from imminent disaster. Retiring in 1885 to Lexington, Massachusetts, he spent the last fifteen years of his life in preaching, lecturing, and writing in behalf of missions and especially of the persecuted Armenians. His monument stands on the shores of the Bosphorus - Robert College, which has sent out many political and intellectual leaders to the varied peoples of the Near East.
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Hamlin was uncompromising, quick-tempered, and dominating, but generous; with the resourcefulness of the pioneer.
Hamlin married, September 3, 1838, Henrietta Loraine Jackson, who died in 1850. On May 18, 1852, he married Harriet Martha Lovell, who died five years later. Mary Eliza Tenney, whom he married on November 5, 1859. Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, architect, was a son of his second marriage.
