Oliver Ellsworth Daggett

Oliver Ellsworth Daggett (January 14, 1810 – September 1, 1880) was an American minister and lawyer.

Daggett was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on January 14, 1810, the son of the Hon. David Daggett, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut and Kent Professor of Law at Yale College, and of Wealthy Ann, daughter of Dr. Aeneas Munson, first Professor of Materia Medica at the Yale Medical School.

Daggett graduated from Yale in 1828. He left no published memorials of his fine powers as a writer and his discriminating literary taste, except a few sermons, and articles in various periodicals. Since his death a small volume of his poems has been printed. From 1872 he was a member of the Corporation of Yale College.

Daggett married Elizabeth, daughter of William Watson, of Hartford, on July 15, 1840. She survived him with two daughters and a son, the son being a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1864.

His papers are held at Yale University.

“Sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865” “Poems” (1880) “The cavil of Judas, or, False pretences: a sermon”