Joseph Willard was an American Congregational clergyman and academic.
11 Facts About Joseph Willard
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Joseph Willard was president of Harvard from 1781 until 1804.
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Joseph Willard's parents were Reverend Samuel Willard and Abigail Willard.
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Joseph Willard's father died when he was two years old and one year later his mother remarried to a Rev Richard Elvins.
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Joseph Willard was educated at the Dummer Academy.
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Joseph Willard was a tutor at Harvard until 1772, when he began serving as pastor at the First Congregational Church in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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Joseph Willard's tenure was marked by his institution of a dress code consisting of blue-gray coats, and breeches and waistcoats in four approved colors.
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When delivering the 1799 commencement address, Joseph Willard broke with tradition and delivered it in English, rather than the customary Latin.
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In 1804, Joseph Willard was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
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Joseph Willard died in New Bedford, Massachusetts on September 25,1804.
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Joseph Willard published a few sermons, a Latin address on the death of George Washington, prefixed to David Tappan's Discourse, and mathematical and astronomical papers in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.