19 Facts About Cyrus Hamlin

Cyrus Hamlin was an American Congregational missionary, co-founder of Robert College, and the father of AD F Hamlin.

Cyrus Hamlin first attended Bridgton Academy before heading to college.

Cyrus Hamlin graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834 and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837.

Cyrus Hamlin promptly left the United States in 1838 as a missionary under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, arriving in the Ottoman Empire in January 1839.

Cyrus Hamlin helped found Bebek Seminary in 1840 as part of his outreach to Armenians.

Cyrus Hamlin established a workshop at Bebek to teach his students marketable trades, to help alleviate their severe poverty.

From this workshop sprung a baking business, by which Cyrus Hamlin became the primary provider of bread to the British Army hospital in Istanbul during the Crimean War.

Cyrus Hamlin served as its president until an unfortunate conflict in 1876, which forced his return to the United States where he later served as professor of dogmatic theology at Bangor Theological Seminary.

Cyrus Hamlin was elected president of Middlebury College in Vermont in 1880.

However, Cyrus Hamlin's guidance brought the College back from the brink of collapse and began a recovery process that would ultimately lead to unprecedented growth in the early years of the 20th Century.

Cyrus Hamlin resolved severe disciplinary issues inherited from his predecessor and personally contracted critical upgrades to the physical plant.

Cyrus Hamlin published Among the Turks and My Life and Times.

Later, Cyrus Hamlin discusses his experience with Cholera in Among the Turks.

Cyrus Hamlin recalled that Cholera came irregularly every 5 to 10 years in Constantinople, with its "most terrible ravages" in August 1865.

Dr Cyrus Hamlin listed four suggestions, a four step course of treatment, and hypotheses on "Contagion".

Cyrus Hamlin's recommended course of therapy would consist of four steps.

Cyrus Hamlin stated "I lay no claim to originality in recommending this course of treatment", having "adopted the treatment from able and experienced physicians".

Cyrus Hamlin claimed, "During the recent Cholera, I cannot find that any treatment has been so successful as this".

The significant impact of Cyrus Hamlin's Letter regarding Cholera can be seen in just the title of a follow up article in 1866 entitled, " Dr Hamlin's Essay on the Cholera: Preparation for Its Prevention and Cure By Cyrus Hamlin, of Constantinople and Other Eminent Men, Who Treated the Cholera With Unparalleled Success In Europe and America in 1848,1855 and 1865".