Background
French the third child of David and Anna (Johnson) French, was born in Bethany, a parish of Woodbridge, Connecticut, December 6, 1801.
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Stiles French
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He was admitted to the Sophomore Class of Yale College at the end of the first term and graduated in 1827.
Career
He began to teach a district school at the age of 17, and it was not until the spring of 1823 that he was able to make systematic preparation for College. After an interval of leisure he established another classical and scientific school in this city, which he maintained for over twenty-five years. About the year 1875 he removed to Northampton, but in 1880 returned to New Haven, where he died May 9, 1881, of a disease of the kidneys, after five months" illness.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1881 Yale Obituary Record.
