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Horace Holley (February 13, 1781 – July 31, 1827) was a Unitarian minister and president of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Born to a prominent New England family, Holley finished his formal secondary education by age ten. He began preparatory studies at age sixteen, and graduated from Yale University in 1799. After briefly studying law at a firm in New York, he returned to Yale to study theology under President Timothy Dwight. He earned a divinity degree in 1804, and began pastoring a Congregationalist church in Fairfield, Connecticut. After three years, he left Fairfield to pastor in Boston, Massachusetts. His religious views also became more liberal, and he converted to Unitarianism in 1809. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1816.〔(American Antiquarian Society Members Directory )〕 In 1818, Holley was offered the presidency of the struggling Transylvania University. He accepted, and immediately began a series of changes that positioned the university among the nation's elite institutions. However, his theological views clashed with those of the Presbyterian Church, which had historically wielded great influence at Transylvania. Holley's sympathies for the Federalist Party also won him a number of enemies in the state. His opponents began to spread rumors regarding his personal life. Governor Joseph Desha also opposed Holley and persuaded the General Assembly to cut off the university's funding. In the face of such overwhelming issues, Holley resigned his post in 1827. Holley moved his family to New Orleans, Louisiana where he was offered the presidency of a planned new university. However, before the university could be opened, Holley contracted yellow fever while vacationing aboard a ship bound for New York, and died July 31, 1827. ==Early life== Horace Holley was born February 13, 1781 in Salisbury, Connecticut, the fourth son of Luther and Sarah (Dakin) Holley.〔Trask, "Horace and Mary Austin Holley"〕 Orville L. Holley and Myron Holley were his brothers. Their father was the founder of a successful iron business, and was also a farmer and merchant.〔 Holley began his early studies before the age of four, and finished them by age ten.〔''Proceedings'', p. 123〕 For the next few years, he studied at home under the tutelage of his father.〔 In 1797, at the age of sixteen, he began preparatory studies at Williams College.〔 He matriculated to Yale in 1799.〔Holley, Horace, 1781–1827〕 The son of a Calvinist father and a Baptist mother, Holley had not been brought up to follow either denomination.〔〔 While attending Yale, he became excited by the religious doctrines of university president Dr. Timothy Dwight, a staunch opponent of deism.〔 In 1803, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and delivered a graduation address entitled "The Slavery of Free Thinking."〔〔''Proceedings'', p. 124〕 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「Horace Holley (minister)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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