Benjamin Hale (educator)
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Benjamin Hales November 23, 1797 Newbury, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | July 15, 1863 (aged 65) |
| Resting place | Belleville Cemetery, Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA |
| Residence | Gardiner, Maine, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | starting Gardiner Lyceum |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Caroline King |
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Benjamin Hale (November 23, 1797 – July 15, 1863) was an American educator and clergyman in the nineteenth century. He is notable for teaching at Dartmouth College and becoming the first instructor of the first vocational trade school in America.
Hale was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on November 23, 1797. His parents were Thomas Hale and Alice Little Hale. He was the oldest of ten children in the family. Hale's father was an eighth generation descendant of a Thomas Hale from Hertfordshire, England, who came to Newburyport around 1637.
Hale attended Atkinson Academy starting in 1813. He entered Dartmouth College in 1814. For health reasons he had to temporarily drop out and entered instead Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts. There he was privately tutored by Rev. Abbott. Hale entered Bowdoin College at the Sophomore class level in February 1816. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from that college in September 1818. Hale first taught a year at Thornton Academy. He was a member of the Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1819. Hale became a teacher at Bowdoin College in 1820. He taught Natural Philosophy and Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to the Junior class. His teachings to the Sophomore class were in advanced mathematics and logic. Hale received a Master's degree in September 1821 and delivered a Latin valedictory oration. While he was a teacher at Bowdoin College Hale pursued theological studies. He became an ordained preacher in 1822 and preached at the Congregational Church in Andover.
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