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James Roscoe Day was born on October 17, 1845 in Whitneyville, Maine, United States; the son of Thomas and Mary Plummer (Hillman) Day.
His mother was a daughter of Samuel Hillman, a Vineyard-man six feet six inches tall, who got religion in the depths of the Maine woods and became an old-time Methodist preacher, earnest, untaught, bold of speech, and unabashed in his habit of mixing politics with religion.
After studying for a while at Kent’s Hill Seminary Day was assigned to a charge in Auburn. While in Auburn, 1871-72, he attended the scientific course in Bowdoin College, being rated as a sophomore, presumably because of his earlier studies for the ministry. His college course did not extend beyond this single year. In 1872 he was ordained.
With his father, who was a lumberman, Day went by sea in 1860 to the Pacific Northwest, where for about five years he worked as a steamboat roustabout, stage-driver, and cattle herder.
Somewhere in the course of his rovings he acquired a glass eye that added not a little to his picturesqueness of figure and deportment.
On his return to Maine he went through the experience known as conversion and determined to be a minister. His pastorates were: Bath, 1872-74; Biddeford, 1874-76; Portland, 187679 ; Nashua, New Hampshire, 1879-81; First Church, Boston, 1881-82; St. Paul’s, New York City, 1883-85; Trinity, Newburgh, N. Y. , 1885-89; and Calvary, New York City, 1889-94.
At the General Conference of 1900 he got 199 votes for bishop, and in 1904 he was actually elected after a hot fight during which he himself took the floor and denied that he had ever knocked down a brother clergyman for impugning his attitude toward the higher criticism.
Two days later he resigned the episcopal office, explaining that he felt that his real work lay in education. Such was indeed the fact. While pastor of the wealthy St. Paul’s congregation in New York he had had John D. Archbold as one of his pewholders, the two men became friends, and when Syracuse University needed a new chancellor Archbold, as chairman of the board of trustees, secured Day’s election to the vacancy. Under Day’s energetic, optimistic, paternalistic management Syracuse grew like corn under an August sun.
In 1894 it was a drooping denominational institution with three departments, some 750 students, and property worth about $1, 780, 000.
In 1922, when he became chancellor emeritus, it was a flourishing university with eight colleges, eight schools, a stadium officially described as “somewhat larger than the Colosseum at Rome, ” and an enrolment of more than five thousand students. Approximately ten million dollars had flowed into the treasury. But although Syracuse was rich in grounds and buildings it had no adequate budget system nor provision for the future, its teachers were overworked and underpaid, the yearly deficit was dangerously large, and murmurs against some of Day’s mannerisms and policies at times became distinctly audible.
The chancellor resigned soon after an attempt to raise an endowment fund had been abandoned for lack of support. To a public that cared little about his other activities Day was known as a publicist.
He published two books: The Raid on Prosperity (1907) and My Neighbor the Workingman (1920). The second is a remarkable revelation of the after-war state of mind.
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Quotations: “I have been through the whole gamut of the workingman, ” he wrote late in life, “omitting the saloon and its kindred precincts. ”
In mind and body Day closely resembled his burly grandfather. Even after leaving the active ministry he continued to be one of the dominating forces in the Methodist Church.
On July 14, 1873 Day married Anna E. Richards of Auburn, who survived him.
