Background
Paul Ansel Chadbourne was born on October 21, 1823 in North Berwick, Maine, United States. He was the eldest child of Isaiah and Pandora (Dennett) Chadbourne.
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Paul Ansel Chadbourne was born on October 21, 1823 in North Berwick, Maine, United States. He was the eldest child of Isaiah and Pandora (Dennett) Chadbourne.
Orphaned at the age of thirteen, he soon acquired habits of industry in working on a farm and in a carpenter's shop in his native village, meanwhile attending school. Removing to Great Falls, he became a druggist's clerk and medical student, remaining three years. Then, having prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, supporting himself by copying law papers, he entered Williams College as a sophomore, and graduated in 1848 valedictorian of his class. As an undergraduate he displayed those habits of intense application and thorough inquiry which characterized him in later years. While pursuing his theological studies at the Theological Seminary at East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, he was a tutor at Williams College and principal of high schools or academies in New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. In 1853 he accepted his first professorship, that of botany and chemistry at Williams College, where afterward he filled the chair of natural history.
With the exception of an interval of five years, 1867 to 1872, he was closely identified with that institution till his resignation of the presidency in 1881. While discharging the duties of his professorship at Williams College, he held, for six years, subsequent to 1858, the professorship of the same branches at Bowdoin College, at the Maine Medical School, of which he was dean, and also at the Berkshire Medical Institute till its discontinuance. For twelve years he delivered courses of lectures at Mount Holyoke Seminary, and for a time taught the natural sciences at Western Reserve University. His passion for scientific research awakened a responsive interest among his pupils, and groups of students attended him upon expeditions, the objects of which were exploration and the collection of specimens. The first was to Newfoundland in 1855, the second to Florida in 1857. His last scientific expedition was to Greenland in 1861. His lectures at the Smithsonian Institution, given in 1859, were published in 1860, as Lectures on Natural History; Its Relations to Intellect, Taste, Wealth and Religion. His Lowell Institute lectures were published under the title of Lectures on Natural Theology (1867) and Instinct, Its Office in the Animal Kingdom, and Its Relation to the Higher Powers in Man (1872). Chadbourne was by nature a practical man. His first cotton manufacturing enterprise was in 1865, and in that year and the following one came service in the Massachusetts Senate. While a senator he was chosen president of the then recently created Agricultural College at Amherst. During his brief incumbency he selected the site, settled the plans and contracted for the erection of three of the buildings. He also systematized the course of study, largely on the basis of President Hitchcock's classic report on the agricultural schools of Europe. He next became president of the University of Wisconsin, and from 1867 to 1870 administered its interests successfully. After leaving Wisconsin he spent nearly two years among the Rocky Mountains in the pursuit of health and the investigation of mines. Returning to Williamstown in 1872, he followed the revered Mark Hopkins as president of Williams College, and with rare teaching and executive skill fulfilled the duties of that office for nine years, the period of his stewardship forming a significant chapter in the history of the institution. They were years of upbuilding and growth. Upon its material interests he brought to bear his unusual administrative powers. "He was the most versatile and incessantly active of Williams Presidents, " but like his immediate predecessor, he was at his best in the classroom. In January 1882 he accepted, for the second time, the presidency of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The institution then needed all the energy, executive ability, ripe experience and educational resources which such a man could supply. He imparted to the college an impetus which became a vigorous internal life. Even more valuable were his services in securing to it the interest and confidence of the people. In 1874 he succeeded Louis Agassiz as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, a position to which he had first been appointed by Gov. Andrew in 1865. Chadbourne published some nine volumes, including The Public Service of the State of New York (3 vols. , 1882), twelve educational addresses, and twenty-two agricultural addresses. He also contributed a series of articles to the Congregationalist and the Springfield Republican, and elsewhere articles on his scientific expeditions and was a contributor to Johnson's and other cyclopedias. His pen was seldom idle.
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He attended national conventions of the Republican party, once as a delegate-at-large, and was a presidential elector.
Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture
Although he was rather short of stature and slender, his fine head, keen restless eyes, and gray, flowing beard lent impressiveness to his appearance. A strict disciplinarian, he was nevertheless affable and gracious.
On October 9, 1850, he was married to Elizabeth Sawyer Page of Exeter.
