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James Morris III ( – ) was a Continental Army officer from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War and founder of the Morris Academy, a pioneer in coeducation.〔Strong 1976〕 Born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, James Morris spent his early life hoping and training to be a minister.〔Carhart 1922, p. 176〕 However, after graduating from Yale College,〔Keefer 1947, p. 16〕 Morris accepted a commission of First Lieutenant from the Continental Army and joined the fight for American Independence.〔Keefer 1947, 18〕 Morris was captured during the Battle of Germantown and spent most of the remaining war in captivity.〔Keefer 1947, pp. 18-19〕〔Keefer 1947, p. 23〕 Upon his release, Morris was promoted to the rank of Captain and supported Alexander Hamilton in the Siege of Yorktown.〔〔Keefer 1947, p. 25〕 When he returned from the war, Morris began and ran an academy that trained both boys and girls together, a rarity at the time.〔Keefer 1947, p. 29〕〔Keefer 1947, p. 32〕 James Morris died in 1820.〔Keefer 1947, p. 37〕 In 1859, Morris's hometown of South Farms, Connecticut was renamed Morris in his honor. ==Early life and education== James Morris was born to Deacon James Morris Jr. and Phebe Barns Morris in South Farms, Connecticut on January 19, 1752.〔Keefer 1947, pp. 11, 13〕〔Carhart 1911, p. 171〕 Even as a young man, Morris displayed a disposition for education, borrowing often from the library in nearby Bethlehem, where his father was a member.〔Strong 1976, p. 12〕 Through these studies, Morris hoped to eventually become a minister.〔 When Morris was eighteen, his father sent him to live full-time in Bethlehem and study under Dr. Joseph Bellamy.〔Strong 1976, p. 13〕 Morris continued with Bellamy until the spring of 1770, when he spent the season studying under the South Farms minister Dr. Salmon Hurlburt.〔Keefer 1947, p. 15〕 That fall Morris found yet another instructor in Mr. Nathan Hale, saying of him, "Mr. Hale was an accurate scholar and an able instructor."〔 In September 1771, Morris began more formal studies at Yale College.〔 For his tutor at Yale, Morris was assigned future Yale president Timothy Dwight IV, who would be an influential force in coeducation in his own right.〔 Morris was awarded his degree in July, 1775, noting in his memoirs, "having had my share of honorary appointments."〔 Upon graduation Morris returned to South Farms, where he helped his father with the harvest and took a post teaching grammar school in nearby Litchfield, where he received his first opportunity to teach and was paid "'handsome wages' hoping to reimburse his father for the heavy expenses of his college education."〔Strong 1976, p. 14〕 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「James Morris III」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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