23 Facts About Ebenezer Pemberton

Ebenezer Pemberton was an American educator and 2nd Principal of Phillips Academy Andover from 1786 to 1793.

Ebenezer Pemberton founded another school in 1810 in Boston, serving as principal there until poor health forced him to retire.

Ebenezer Pemberton was born in Newport, Rhode Island, sometime in 1746 to Samuel Ebenezer Pemberton and Mary Frye Leach, daughter of Thomas Leach and Sarah Frye, and had three siblings:.

Ebenezer Pemberton's grandfather, named Rev Ebenezer Pemberton, was a minister of the Old South Church in Boston, which at the time resided in the Old South Meeting House.

Consequently, due to his uncle's connections with the school, Ebenezer Pemberton attended Princeton University, then called the College of New Jersey, and graduated in 1765, valedictorian of his class.

Ebenezer Pemberton then began studying theology under Rev Samuel Hopkins in Newport.

Ebenezer Pemberton taught along with Jabez Denison, Ezra Stiles, and Charles Chauncy.

Chauncy disliked Ebenezer Pemberton, describing him in a letter to Stiles:.

Ebenezer Pemberton finished his studies with Rev Hopkins with a license to preach in 1778.

In 1778, Ebenezer Pemberton moved to Plainfield, Connecticut, where his mother lived and became principal of Plainfield Academy in Plainfield, Connecticut, a secondary school founded in 1770.

Ebenezer Pemberton was successful in Plainfield and continued to tutor in Newport.

Ebenezer Pemberton quit however, soon into his administration, to teach at a school in Windham, Connecticut.

Ebenezer Pemberton "maintained strict discipline" and ran the day's schedule "with perfect smoothness" while only using force as a last resort.

Ebenezer Pemberton is a good deal mended of the trick of moving his feet and fingers.

Ebenezer Pemberton had spent the previous night in Deacon Isaac Abbot's Abbot Tavern on Elm Street and after breakfast at the tavern, was escorted by Judge Phillips and others to Central Street, past the South Church, up School Street, and south on Main Street where he was entertained at the Mansion House, Judge Phillips' residence, by him and his wife Phoebe Foxcroft Phillips.

In 1793, Ebenezer Pemberton began citing issues with his health that would compromise his ability as principal.

In 1794, Ebenezer Pemberton relocated to Billerica, where he would establish Ebenezer Pemberton Academy and serve as its principal, suggesting he had not been in seriously ill health.

Concurrent to his administration of his new academy, Ebenezer Pemberton served as Deacon of Billerica's First Church.

Ebenezer Pemberton first settled at the rear of 4 Newbury Street, the portion of Washington Street in between Essex and Summer Streets.

Ebenezer Pemberton received similar praise by his students in Boston as he had while at Andover.

One of their students, writer Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, recalls Ebenezer Pemberton teaching her how to read in 1830.

Ebenezer Pemberton died June 25,1835, at 5 Hayward Place, Boston at the age of 89.

At the time of their marriage Ebenezer Pemberton was a principal in Billerica.