Artemas Wyman Sawyer was an American

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 Baptist

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 minister and educator. He was the president of Acadia College (now Acadia University

Acadia University

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) in Nova Scotia

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, Canada

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 from 1869 to 1896.

Born in West Haven, Vermont

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, the son of the Reverend Reuben Sawyer and Laura Wyman, Sawyer was educated at the New London Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1847 from Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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. After teaching in Windsor, Vermont

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 for three years he attended the Newton Theological Institute and graduated in 1853. He was then ordained a minister of Baptist church in Lawrence, Massachusetts

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From 1855 to 1860, he was a professor of classics at Acadia College. From 1860 to 1864, he was the pastor of Baptist church in Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Springs, New York

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. He served as principal of New London Academy from 1864 to 1869. In 1869, he was appointed president of Acadia College succeeding John Mockett Cramp. He served until 1896.

He died in West Haven, Vermont in 1907.