Laurenus Clark Seelye, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLaurenus Clark Seelye
President of Smith College
Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1837
Place of Birth: Bethel, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 12-Oct-1924
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Laurenus Clark Seelye
- Laurenus Clark Seelye (1837–1924), known as L.
- Clark Seelye, was the first president of Smith College, serving from 1873 to 1910.
- He graduated from Union College (NY) in 1857 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and membership in The Kappa Alpha Society.
- Seelye later studied at Andover Theological Seminary and the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
- After serving as a Congregational Minister in Springfield, Massachusetts, he became Williston Professor of Rhetoric, Oratory and English Literature at Amherst College, where his brother Julius was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy.
- Under President Stearns, Amherst College in 1865 had 17 faculty and 203 students.
- Seelye taught at Amherst from 1865 until his election as President of the newly formed Smith College in nearby Northampton, Massachusetts in 1873.
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