Background
Daggett, son of the Honorary David Daggett, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut and Kent Professor of Law in Yale College, and of Wealthy Ann, daughter of Doctor Aeneas Munson, first Professor of Materia Medica at the Yale Medical School, was born in New Haven, January 14, 1810.
Education
Daggett graduated from Yale in 1828.
Career
He spent three years in the Yale Law School. And was admitted to the bar in March, 1831. Subsequently, as a convert in the great religious revival of 1831, he determined to enter the Christian ministry, and spent nearly two years in the Yale Divinity School.
He was ordained pastor of the South Church in Hartford, Connecticut, April
12, 1837, and resigned that charge, June 23, 1843. He retired from the arduous labors of a settled ministry with his dismission from this charge, September
5, 1877, and removed his residence to Hartford, Connecticut, where he died, without previous warning, of rupture of the heart, August 31, 1880, in his 71st year. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hamilton College in 1853.
He left no published memorials of his fine powers as a writer and his discriminating literary taste, except a few sermons, and articles in various periodicals.
Since his death a small volume of his poems has been printed. This article incorporates public domain material from the 1881 Yale Obituary Record.
Membership
From 1872 he was a member of the Corporation of Yale College.