Noah Porter

Noah Porter
11th President of Yale University
In office
1871–1886
Preceded byTheodore Dwight Woolsey
Succeeded byTimothy Dwight V
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Born
Noah Porter Jr.

(1811-12-14)December 14, 1811
Farmington, Connecticut
DiedMarch 4, 1892(1892-03-04) (aged 80)
New Haven, Connecticut
Alma materYale College
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Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)[1] was an American Congregational minister, academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer and an outspoken anti-slavery activist. Porter Mountain, of the Adirondack Mountains, was named for him after he was the first to climb it in 1875. He was President of Yale College (1871–1886).[2]

  1. ^ Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp. 82-83.
  2. ^ Welch, Lewis et al. (1899). Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics, p. 445.