Edward Porter Humphrey

Edward Porter Humphrey (1809–1886) was an American Presbyterian minister, orator, writer, and moderator of the national Presbyterian General Assembly. He was a planner and co-founder of Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.

Biography Humphrey was the son of Heman Humphrey, a Congregationalist minister and the second president of Amherst College, and his wife Sophia Porter (1785–1868), daughter of Noah Porter. He was born in Fairfield, Connecticut. He soon, in 1835, became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Old Louisville, Kentucky, and served that rapidly expanding church for eighteen years. In 1846 the Rev. Stuart Robinson, for whom the Stuart Robinson School was later named, filled the pulpit during a nine-month absence of Rev. Dr. Edward P. Humphrey. In 1852, Humphrey was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and he preached a sermon called "Our Theology" as retiring moderator to the national assembly gathered in Charleston, South Carolina. The sermon was well received and was distributed by the Presbyterian Board of Publications.

Member, National Presbyterian General Assembly In 1866 he answered an appeal to return to Louisville. Members of the old Second Church, where he had been pastor for many years, started a newly organized College Street Presbyterian Church, of which he became the pastor. The church became one of Louisville's largest and most notable places of worship. In 1871, Amherst College, his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of L.L.D.