Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England and produced works on biblical scholarship. After Charles Chauncy died, he was immediately elected and installed as the president of Harvard on December 10, 1672; which position he held until he resig...
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Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an early American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1650, and later studied medicine at Cambridge University. He occupied various ecclesiastical positions in England and produced works on biblical scholarship. After Charles Chauncy died, he was immediately elected and installed as the president of Harvard on December 10, 1672; which position he held until he resigned on March 15, 1675. He died nine months after his resignation. He had the distinction of being the first president of Harvard College who was also a graduate of it.
His epitaph in the Hancock Cemetery at Quincy, Massachusetts reads ...
He was not well liked by his students or apparently even the people of Massachusetts in part due to his radical religious views. In Daniel Munro Wilson, Where American Independence Began (1902), pp. 53–54, the author writes ...
(Quoting from Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana).
Hoar was a contemporary...
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