Andrew Dousa Hepburn was a Presbyterian pastor, professor and President of Miami University and Davidson College.
Background
Hepburn was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania to Samuel Hepburn, a lawyer and judge and Rebecca Williamson. Hepburn grew up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania before attending Jefferson College, Canonsburg. The University of Virginia.
And Princeton University, from where he graduated with a degree in theology in 1857, the same year in which he married Henrietta McGuffey, daughter of William Holmes McGuffey.
Education
Washington & Jefferson College.
Career
Together, they had two children: Henrietta Williamson Hepburn and Charles McGuffey Hepburn, an attorney who became dean of the Indiana University School of Law. In his address at this event many citizens of Wilmington considered that he was too conciliatory in attitude towards the Union side, but he seemed to emerge from this without too heavy criticism. In 1865 he left the United States to study at the University of Berlin.
Upon his return to America he took up a post firstly at Miami University in Ohio rising to the post of President in 1871 before moving to Davidson College back in North Carolina upon the closure of Miami University in 1873.
In 1875 his work Manual of English Rhetoric was published, and two years later in 1877 he became Davidson"s president While president, he initiated curricular reforms, particularly in languages and Bible courses.
He also taught courses in Latin and French and in Mental Philosophy and English Literature. In 1885 Miami University reopened and Hepburn accepted a post as Professor of English Literature there, which he held until his retirement in 1908.
Two different Hepburn Halls at Miami University have been named in his honour and three times in his life he received honorary degrees, once from Jefferson College in 1860, once from Hampden-Sydney College in 1876 and once from the University of North Carolina in 1881.
Hepburn died on February 14, 1921 in Oxford, Ohio.