1. Noah Thomas Porter III was an American Congregational minister, academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and an outspoken anti-slavery activist.
10 Facts About Noah Porter
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Noah Porter graduated in 1831 from Yale College, where he was a member of the Linonian Society.
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Noah Porter was ordained as a Congregational minister in New Milford, Connecticut, from 1836 to 1843.
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Noah Porter served as pastor at a Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1843 to 1846.
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Noah Porter was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846.
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Noah Porter was inaugurated as President of Yale College on Wednesday, October 11,1871.
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Noah Porter continued to serve as head of the college until 1886.
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Noah Porter edited several editions of Webster's Dictionary, and wrote on education.
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Noah Porter was a frequent visitor to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, and in 1875 was among the first recorded to make an ascent of the peak later named Porter Mountain in his honor.
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Noah Porter died on March 4,1892, in New Haven, and was buried in the Grove Street Cemetery there.