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Edward Porter Humphrey (1809 - 1886), also known as Reverend Doctor Edward Porter Humphrey, D.D., L.L.D., was a Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. He gave the dedicatory address on July 25, 1848 for Cave Hill, an innovative garden cemetery which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.〔http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/cavehill.asp〕 ==Biography== Edward Porter Humphrey was the son of Congregationalist minister and second president of Amherst College Dr. Heman Humphrey and his wife Sophia Porter (1785–1868), daughter of Noah Porter.〔Perrin, Battle, Kniffin. Kentucky Gen Web:''A History of the State'', 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=c6 )〕 He was born in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts or in Connecticut. The documentary evidence in Ancestry.com for Fairfield, Connecticut appears to be strongest and is based on census records.〔http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/humphrey.ep.txt〕〔http://interactive.ancestry.com/8054/4192497_00124/17250078?backurl=http://person.ancestry.com/tree/6834177/person/7005575023/facts/citation/24263029401/edit/record〕 His first wife was Catherine Cornelia Prather, daughter of Thomas Prather and Matilda Martha Fontaine. They were married March 3, 1841. She bore him one son, Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, who became a lawyer, and one young daughter who died shortly after Catherine died during childbirth on September 28, 1844.〔 As a child, Catherine Cornelia Prather's portrait was painted by the American portrait painter Matthew Harris Jouett. Her portrait was retrieved from Louisville's Speed Museum collection to become part of the private collection of her descendant Eleanor Belknap Humphrey, sister of William Burke Belknap the younger, and daughter of William Richardson Belknap. Her portrait, known as "The Little Grandmother" remains in a Humphrey family collection, is registered with the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and in the 1970s was on temporary loan to Transylvania College for an exhibition of Kentucky portraits. The Jouett portrait of Catherine Cornelia Prather Humphrey as a child was also used as an illustration in the book ''Kentucky Heyday'' by British Army officer Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson. On April 3, 1847 the Reverend Doctor E.P. Humphrey married his second wife, Martha Pope, daughter of Alexander Pope and Martha Fontaine and widow of her cousin, Charles Pope, son of William Pope Jr., and Cynthia Sturgess.〔 Martha and the Reverend Edward Porter Humphrey's son was Alexander Pope Humphrey, a Louisville lawyer with the firm of Brown, Humphrey, & Davie, who later inherited his mother's home, "Fincastle", in Louisville.〔 Other descendants of Edward Porter Humphrey include Judge Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, newspaper editor Lewis Craig Humphrey, Dr. Edward Cornelius Humphrey, M.D., Politics and Prose co-founder Barbara Meade, and historian of economic thought Thomas M. Humphrey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Porter Humphrey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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