Person:Samuel Stearns (24)

Rev. Samuel Horatio Stearns

d.15 Jul 1837 Paris, France

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m. 9 May 1797

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Name^[1]	Rev. Samuel Horatio Stearns
Gender	Male
Birth^[2]	12 Sep 1801	Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[1]	15 Jul 1837	Paris, France

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 INSTRUCTORS, in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
12, 22.

1823 Samuel Horatio Stearns 1825
Born, Bedford, Sept. 12, 1801.
Phillips Academy, 1816.
Gave salutatory addresses, Harvard, 1823, and master's valedictory oration, 1826.
Died, Paris, France, July 15, 1837.
See page 83.
↑ Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
p. 51.

STEARNS, Samuel Horatio, s. Rev. Samuel and Abigail, [born] Sept. 12, 1801.
STUDENTS. 1816., in Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
83.

Samuel Horatio Stearns, 15, Bedford. H. 1823. *1837

Son of Rev. Samuel Stearns and Abigail French ; brother of William A., 1820, and Jonathan F., 1823.
— At Mrs. Abigail French's.
Graduated 1819.
— Teacher in Phillips Academy, 1823-1825. 1
And. Theol. Sem. 1828.
Ordained pastor of Old South church, Boston, 1831, but preached only three Sabbaths;
an invalid afterwards till his death in Paris.

1 See tribute of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1824, in Centennial Poem :
" Kindest of teachers, studious to divine
Some hint of promise in my earliest line."
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[H = Harvard]