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Nathan S.S. Beman

American academic administrator · United States · On the map · Educators · Lived 1785 to 1871 · aged 86

Nathan Sidney Smith Beman (1785-1871) was the fourth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born in what is now New Lebanon, New York, on November 26, 1785. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1807. He then studied theology and preached in Portland, Maine, and Sparta, Georgia.

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In 1818, he became president of Franklin College in Athens, Georgia, which was the founding college of the University of Georgia, although he only served a year in that position. He then returned to preaching in Sparta, Georgia, at Mount Zion Presbyterian Church until 1822, when he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy, New York.

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United States
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Educators
Type
Educator
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1785 to 1871 · aged 86