{"id":2290,"date":"2013-11-07T23:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2014-06-29T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:11:03","slug":"williston-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/williston-college\/","title":{"rendered":"“Williston College”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Samuel Williston in the 1840s (Courtesy Emily Williston Memorial Library and Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Passionate educational philanthropist that he was, Samuel Williston is a major figure in the histories of several colleges.\u00a0 Most prominent among them is Amherst College, where Samuel served as Trustee, where he recruited many of Williston Seminary’s early faculty, and whose legendary Professor William Seymour Tyler he counted among his closest friends.<\/p>\n

In 1847 there was a proposal that Amherst College be renamed for Samuel Williston.\u00a0 Williston demurred — but there were opinions on both sides of the issue.\u00a0 Amherst College Archivist Peter Nelson tells the story on his blog, “The Consecrated Eminence.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> Enjoy!\u00a0 \u2014 RT<\/p>\n

Linked content \u00a9 2013, Amherst College.\u00a0 Used by permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Passionate educational philanthropist that he was, Samuel Williston is a major figure in the histories of several colleges.\u00a0 Most prominent among them is Amherst College, where Samuel served as Trustee, where he recruited many of Williston Seminary’s early faculty, and whose legendary Professor William Seymour Tyler he counted among his closest friends. In 1847 there … Continue reading “Williston College”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,336,25],"tags":[266,273,274,5,275],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders","category-guest-bloggers","category-williston-seminary","tag-amherst-college","tag-ebenezer-snell","tag-peter-nelson","tag-samuel-williston","tag-the-consecrated-eminence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}