About Alonzo Ames Miner
Lived 1814 – 1895 (aged 80). Alonzo Ames Miner was an American christian minister.
Alonzo Ames Miner (August 17, 1814 – June 14, 1895) was a Universalist minister. He was the second president of Tufts University.
Origins Born in Lempster, New Hampshire, he was the second of five children and only son of Benajah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. His father was a descendant of the colonist Thomas Miner.
He married Maria S. Perley in August 1836.
Career He taught school in rural Vermont and New Hampshire before being ordained a Universalist minister in 1839. He served as pastor to churches in Methuen, Lowell, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Miner supported many moral and civic causes, at various times serving on the Board of Trustees at Tufts College, the Board of Overseers at Harvard (appointed 1863),
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American universalist clergyman (1814–1895)
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Alonzo Ames Miner was born on 17 August 1814 in Lempster.
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Alonzo Ames Miner died on 14 June 1895 in Boston.
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Alonzo Ames Miner was a christian minister.
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