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November 24, 1968. The Ezra Stiles House is an historic house at 14 Clarke Street in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a large -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof and two large interior brick chimneys, built in 1756.
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Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12,...
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Ezra Stiles College is named to honor the memory of Ezra Stiles, Yale Class of 1746, an eminent American theologian, lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, who served as the seventh President of Yale from 1778 to 1795. The distinguished historian Edmund Morgan characterized Ezra Stiles as follows: “Although he became the most learned man of his ...
23 mag 2018 · STILES, EZRA. (1727–1795). Clergyman, scholar, and president of Yale College. Born in North Haven, Connecticut, Stiles was graduated from Yale College in 1746. Although he studied theology and was licensed to preach on 30 May 1749, he remained at Yale as an instructor (called tutor). He delayed entering actively into the ministry until 1755 ...
This third Clarke Street gambrel takes its name from its most famous occupant. Built to serve as the rectory for Second Congregational “forever,” this broad, five-bay, two-and-one-half-story house was home to the learned reverend briefly (1775–1776) while he served as minister of the church.
Founders of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences: Five-Minute Profiles. Ezra Stiles 1727-1795. Presented by Ernest I. Kohorn, MChir, FRCS. Ezra Stiles was born in 1727 in North Haven, Connecticut, the son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles. He graduated from Yale College in 1746.
8 set 2023 · The enslaved person Stiles bought for his father, Isaac, did not stay in Newport. Isaac Stiles was then living in North Haven, Connecticut, so Prince (the enslaved individual Ezra purchased) was transported over one hundred miles west to, most likely, be a domestic slave in Isaac’s household, considering Isaac’s affluence as the town’s minister and advanced age.
