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==Notable alumni== Alumni of Andover Theological Seminary include the following notables, listed in order of their last year at the Seminary. {{div col}} * [[Adoniram Judson]], class of 1810, one of the first U.S. missionaries sent by the [[American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions]]; later became a [[Baptist]] missionary to [[Myanmar]], then known as Burma. * [[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]], class of 1814. * [[Hiram Bingham I|Hiram Bingham]], class of 1816, leader of the first group of missionaries to Hawaii; helped devise the first alphabet for the Hawaiian language. * [[David Brown (translator)|David Brown]], attended 1823, member of the Cherokee Nation, author of [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25079429 "Address in Favor of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America"] * [[Samuel Worcester]], class of 1823, American pastor and Cherokee missionary; plaintiff in the [[Worcester v. Georgia]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] case. * [[David Oliver Allen]], class of 1824, American [[missionary]]. *[[Walter Colton]], class of 1825, U.S. Navy chaplain, first American alcalde (mayor) of Monterey, California, co-publisher of California's first newspaper * [[John William Yeomans]], class of 1827, Presbyterian pastor and second president of [[Lafayette College]] * [[Nehemiah Adams]], class of 1829, clergyman and author. * [[Bela Bates Edwards]], class of 1830, Andover Theological Seminary faculty, 1837β1852; editor of ''American Quarterly Observer'', ''Biblical Repository'', and ''[[Bibliotheca Sacra]]''. * [[William Adams (minister)|William Adams]], class of 1830, one of the founders of the [[Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York]] and later its president. *[[Asher Wright]], class of 1831, missionary to the [[Seneca people]], and a linguist who developed a Seneca alphabet and translated large portions of the bible and other texts. * [[Caleb Mills]], class of 1833, first professor of [[Wabash College]] and father of the [[Indiana]] public education system.<ref>{{cite book | last = Osborne | first = James Insley |author2=Theodore Gregory Gronert | title = Wabash College: The First Hundred Years, 1832-1932 | publisher = R. E. Banta | location = [[Crawfordsville, Indiana]] | year = 1932 | pages = 31}}</ref> * [[Samuel Francis Smith]], class of 1834, Baptist minister who wrote the words to "[[My Country, 'Tis of Thee]]" while a seminary student. * [[Samuel Harvey Taylor]], class of 1837, 6th Principal of [[Phillips Academy]] 1837β1871 * [[Edward A. Lawrence, Sr.]], class of 1838, Congregational pastor, professor, author * [[George Frederick Magoun]], class of 1847, co-founder and first president of [[Grinnell College]]<ref name="pres-bio">Grinnell College Libraries. [http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/collections/specialcollections/VirtualExhibits/Presidents.html#magoun Presidents of Grinnell College: George Magoun] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609072938/http://www.lib.grinnell.edu/collections/specialcollections/VirtualExhibits/Presidents.html#magoun |date=June 9, 2010 }}. Accessed May 10, 2008.</ref> * [[George Park Fisher]], class of 1851, ecclesiastical historian, president of the [[American Historical Association]] in 1898 * [[William True Sleeper]], class of 1858, clergyman and hymn writer * [[Charles Augustus Aiken]], class of 1853, Faculty at Dartmouth College and Princeton Theological Seminary; president of Union College.<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book |title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 |publisher = Marquis Who's Who |location = Chicago |year = 1963}}</ref> * [[Laurenus Clark Seelye]], attended 1858-59, first president of [[Smith College]] * [[George Washburn (educator)]], class of 1859, professor of philosophy (1886), acting president (1870-1877) and later president (1877) of [[Robert College]], Constantinople (now Istanbul), founding principal of [[American College, Madurai]] (1881). * [[Henry F. C. Nichols]], class of 1864, member of the [[Wisconsin State Assembly]] * [[William Jewett Tucker]], class of 1866, Andover Theological Seminary faculty, 1879-1893; editor of ''Andover Review''; founder of Andover House; president of [[Dartmouth College]]. *[[James Griswold Merrill]], class of 1866, president of [[Fisk University]] (1901-1908).<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=J. G. Merrill, Ex-Head of Fisk University, Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/186254251/?terms=%22James%2BGriswold%2BMerrill%22|access-date=December 8, 2017|work=The New York Tribune|date=December 23, 1920|page=11|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration }}</ref> He graduated from [[Amherst College]].<ref name=":0" /> *[[George Trumbull Ladd]] (1842 β 1921), class of 1869, was an American philosopher, educator and psychologist. He was the first foreigner to receive the Second (conferred in 1907) and Third (conferred in 1899) [[Orders of the Rising Sun]]. * [[Joseph Hardy Neesima]], attended 1870-72, 1873β74, but did not graduate. Founder and president of [[Doshisha University]] in [[Japan]]. * [[Albert Edward Winship]], educator * [[William Scott Ament]], class of 1877, controversial Congregational missionary to China criticised by [[Mark Twain]] *[[Thomas Davidson Christie]], class of 1877, Civil War Veteran, missionary in Turkey, President of St. Paul's College in Tarsus, papers at MNHS.org *[[Claude Black (minister)|Claude Black]], class of 1943, noted pastor of [[Mt. Zion First Baptist Church]], civil rights icon, politician. {{end div col}}
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