1. Jared Sparks was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister.
17 Facts About Jared Sparks
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Jared Sparks served as President of Harvard College from 1849 to 1853.
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Jared Sparks was the first pastor of the newly organized "First Independent Church of Baltimore", serving from 1819 to 1823.
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Jared Sparks served as chaplain of the United States House of Representatives from 1821 to 1823; and he contributed to the National Intelligencer and other periodicals.
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In 1823, his health failed and Jared Sparks withdrew from the ministry.
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Jared Sparks founded and edited in 1830, the American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, which was continued by others and long remained a popular annual.
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In 1825 Jared Sparks was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1827 as a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Jared Sparks later served two decades as the society's secretary for foreign correspondence, from 1846 to 1866.
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The work was for the most part favorably received, but Jared Sparks was severely criticized by Lord Mahon and others for altering the text of some of Washington's writings.
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Jared Sparks defended his methods in A Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others.
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In 1837, Jared Sparks was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.
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In 1842 Jared Sparks delivered 12 lectures on American history before the Lowell Institute in Boston.
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Jared Sparks was appointed in 1849 as president of Harvard College, and moved into a home on campus now called Treadwell-Sparks House.
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In 1853 Jared Sparks retired on account of failing health, and devoted the rest of his life to his private studies.
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Jared Sparks died on March 14,1866, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Jared Sparks was a pioneer in large-scale collecting of documentary material on American history.
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Jared Sparks rendered valuable services to historical scholarship in the United States.