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For the Civil War general, see Cyrus Hamlin (general)
Cyrus Hamlin (general)

Cyrus Hamlin was an attorney, politician, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
. Cyrus Hamlin (1811–1900) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Congregational
Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestantism Christianity churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each Wiktionary:congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
 missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 and educator, the father of A. D. F. Hamlin
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin

Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. was an United States architect, born at Istanbul, Turkey as the son of Cyrus Hamlin. He graduated at Amherst College in 1875, studied architecture at Boston, Massachusetts and Paris, France, and afterward began teaching architecture at Columbia University in its School of Engineering....
. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.

Hamlin was born in Waterford, Maine
Waterford, Maine

Waterford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 1,455 at the 2000 United States Census. It is a recreation area noted for historic architecture and scenic beauty....
. He graduated from Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine, Maine....
 in 1834 and from Bangor Theological Seminary
Bangor Theological Seminary

Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary, founded in 1814, in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ. It is located in Bangor, Maine and Portland, Maine....
 in 1837. The Hamlins were a prominent nineteenth-century Maine
Maine

The State of Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast....
 family which also produced a Vice President of the United States
Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office in the United States of America created by the Constitution of the United States....
 (Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln from 1861-1865....
) and at least two Civil War generals, one of whom was also named Cyrus Hamlin.

He promptly left the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in 1838 as a missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 under the American Board, arriving in Turkey in January 1839.






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For the Civil War general, see Cyrus Hamlin (general)
Cyrus Hamlin (general)

Cyrus Hamlin was an attorney, politician, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
. Cyrus Hamlin (1811–1900) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Congregational
Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestantism Christianity churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each Wiktionary:congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
 missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 and educator, the father of A. D. F. Hamlin
Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin

Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, A.M., L.H.D. was an United States architect, born at Istanbul, Turkey as the son of Cyrus Hamlin. He graduated at Amherst College in 1875, studied architecture at Boston, Massachusetts and Paris, France, and afterward began teaching architecture at Columbia University in its School of Engineering....
. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition.

Hamlin was born in Waterford, Maine
Waterford, Maine

Waterford is a town in Oxford County, Maine, Maine, United States. The population was 1,455 at the 2000 United States Census. It is a recreation area noted for historic architecture and scenic beauty....
. He graduated from Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the coastal New England town of Brunswick, Maine, Maine....
 in 1834 and from Bangor Theological Seminary
Bangor Theological Seminary

Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary, founded in 1814, in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ. It is located in Bangor, Maine and Portland, Maine....
 in 1837. The Hamlins were a prominent nineteenth-century Maine
Maine

The State of Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast....
 family which also produced a Vice President of the United States
Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office in the United States of America created by the Constitution of the United States....
 (Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin was the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, serving under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln from 1861-1865....
) and at least two Civil War generals, one of whom was also named Cyrus Hamlin.

He promptly left the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in 1838 as a missionary
Missionary

A 'missionary' is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who Proselytism. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missioninimus...
 under the American Board, arriving in Turkey in January 1839. In 1860, he began the work of establishing Robert College
Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is the most selective independent private high school in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutk?y district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west....
 in Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
, Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
. He served as its president until an unfortunate conflict in 1876, which forced his return to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 where he served as professor of dogmatic theology at Bangor Theological Seminary
Bangor Theological Seminary

Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary, founded in 1814, in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ. It is located in Bangor, Maine and Portland, Maine....
.

He was elected president of Middlebury College
Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Middlebury , Vermont, Vermont, United States. Drawing 2,350 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences....
, Vermont
Vermont

Vermont is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area....
 in 1880. His term was short, lasting only until 1885. However, Hamlin's guidance brought the College back from the brink of collapse and began a recovery process that would ultimately lead to unprecedented growth in the early years of the 20th Century. Hamlin resolved severe disciplinary issues inherited from his predecessor and personally contracted critical upgrades to the physical plant. However, the most significant event of Hamlin's administration--one that would prove key in maintaining Middlebury's stability later on--was the college's decision to accept women in 1883. Hamlin was seventy-four by the time he unsurprisingly retired in 1885.

He published Among the Turks (1878) and My Life and Times (1893). Hamlin Hall at Robert College
Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is the most selective independent private high school in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutk?y district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west....
, as well as Hamlin Hall in Middlebury College
Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Middlebury , Vermont, Vermont, United States. Drawing 2,350 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences....
's Freeman International Center are named after him.

For many years, he lived in Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census.The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the American Revolution, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775....
. He is buried in Lexington's Munroe Cemetery.