Background
Hermon Carey Bumpus was born in Buckfield, Maine in 1862 and received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Brown University in 1884, specializing in biology and science.
Hermon Carey Bumpus was born in Buckfield, Maine in 1862 and received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Brown University in 1884, specializing in biology and science.
Brown University; Clark University.
He began graduate work at Brown before teaching at Olivet College. Bumpus received his Doctor of Philosophy from Clark University in 1891 and then became a professor of comparative zoology at Brown. Bumpus received an honorary Doctor of Science from Tufts in 1905 and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Clark in 1909.
He directed the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the United States. Bureau of Fisheries laboratory, also at Woods Hole, and the American Museum of Natural History.
Subsequently, he served as business manager of the University of Wisconsin. Bumpus became president of Tufts University in 1915, and was the first Tufts president who was not a Universalist.
He had been chosen specifically because of his educational and administrative experience. He served president until 1919.