Gad Day family papers, 1742-1910 (inclusive).

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Gad Day family papers, 1742-1910 (inclusive).

Four generations of a Connecticut and Massachusetts family, beginning with Josiah Day who is represented by his surveyor's notebook, 1742-1743. The principal figure is his great-grandson, George Edward Day, clergyman and professor at the Yale Divinity School, 1863-1895.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022772

Yale University Library

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Day, George Edward, 1815-1905

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Rice, Hannah Palfrey Cole, 1751-1826.

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Yale university. Divinity school

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For more than a century, theological instruction was conducted by Yale's president or by the Professor of Divinity, a position established by Thomas Clap in 1746. During these years, however, Yale did not have a formally established Divinity School. The college began to feel the lack of a separately established department in the beginning of the nineteenth century as more New England colleges--such as Williams, Middlebury, Union, and Hamilton--began to draw students to their seminar...

Day family.

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Yale University.

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Day, Gad, 1784-1873.

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GEORGE EDWARD DAY, 1815-1905 George Edward Day, elder son of Gad and Roxanna (Rice) Day, and brother of Horace Day (Yale, 1836), was a descendant of Robert Day, who came from Ipswich, England, to Boston, Mass., in the bark Elizabeth in April, 1634, and was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, Conn., having probably journeyed thither through the wilderness with Rev. Thomas Hooker in 1636. Through his mother he was descended from Thomas Yale, uncle of Elihu Yale, i...

Day, Horace, 1816-1902.

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Day, Josiah, 1701-1770.

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