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Cyrus Hamlin (January 5, 1811 – August 8, 1900) [1] was an American Congregational missionary, co-founder of Robert College, and the father of A. D. F. Hamlin. [2]
Cyrus Hamlin (1936 – January 19, 2011) [1] was a Yale professor emeritus who is well-recognized for his contributions to the study of European Romanticism and literary theory. Early life [ edit ]
On 1856 Robert met Cyrus Hamlin when visiting Istanbul. From this meeting came the founding of the Robert College with the financial backing of Robert and others. [4] He also left provision in his will for the support of the college. [5] [4] Robert was a stockholder in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. In 1857 the then president ...
He was ordained a Presbyterian missionary, at Morristown, N.J., on May 20, 1837. [3] With his wife Martha, he served in Singapore East India (May 1838 – June 1840); [2] Smyrna (1842), Trebizond Eyalet in the Ottoman Empire (1842–1843), [4] eight years at Istanbul (March 1842 – July 1850), [2] and associated with the Rev. Cyrus Hamlin in the Bebek Seminary.
In 1863, Robert College was founded in Bebek by Christopher Robert, a wealthy American philanthropist, and Cyrus Hamlin, a missionary devoted to education. Six years after its foundation, with the permission ( Ottoman Turkish : irade ) of the Ottoman Sultan , the first campus (currently housing Boğaziçi University ) was built in Bebek at the ...
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She was the daughter of Dr. Cyrus E. Hamlin and Hattie Bennion; also the great-granddaughter of former U.S. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.She is a shadowy figure today, and would probably be completely forgotten were it not for a series of 78rpm spoken word recordings she made for children in the 1910s and 1920s.
Dr. Job Holmes arrived in Calais sometime after 1830, and established a medical practice, joining his brother-in-law, Cyrus Hamlin, brother to future United States Vice President Hannibal Hamlin. The Holmeses first lived in the cottage next door, and had this house built about 1850.