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Erastus Otis Haven

American Methodist Episcopal bishop

Field	Value
name	Erastus Otis Haven
image	Erastus Otis Haven (circa 1875).png
caption	Haven as the Chancellor of Syracuse University 1875
order	2nd
title	Chancellor of Syracuse University
term_start	September 1874
term_end	1880
predecessor	Alexander Winchell
successor	Charles N. Sims
office2	3rd President of Northwestern University
term_start2	1869
term_end2	1872
predecessor2	Randolph Sinks Foster
David H. Wheeler (interim)
Henry Sanborn Noyes (interim)
successor2	Charles Henry Fowler
order3	2nd
title3	President of the
University of Michigan
term_start3	1863
term_end3	1869
predecessor3	Henry Philip Tappan
successor3	James B. Angell
birth_date
birth_place	Boston, Massachusetts
death_date
death_place	Salem, Oregon
alma_mater	Wesleyan College
<!--	religion	Methodism--
spouse	Mary Frances (Coles) Rice
signature	Signature of Erastus Otis Haven (1820–1881).png

David H. Wheeler (interim) Henry Sanborn Noyes (interim) University of Michigan Erastus Otis Haven (November 1, 1820 – August 2, 1881) was an American academic administrator, serving as the 2nd president of the University of Michigan from 1863 to 1869, as the 3rd president of Northwestern University from 1869 to 1872, and as the 2nd chancellor of Syracuse University from 1874 to 1880. He was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1880 until his death.

Biography

Early life

Haven was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Jotham Haven, Jr. and Elizabeth (Spear) Haven, having descended from early colonists from Massachusetts Bay Colony, including Edmund Rice one of the founders of Sudbury, Massachusetts. He is also a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower.

Education and early career

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1842. He had charge of a private academy at Sudbury, Massachusetts, while at the same time pursuing a course of theological and general study. He became Principal of Amenia Seminary, New York, in 1846. He entered the Methodist ministry in the New York Annual Conference in 1848. Five years later he accepted the professorship of Latin at the University of Michigan. The following year he became the Chair of English language, literature and history. He resigned in 1856 and returned to Boston, where he served as the editor of Zion's Herald for seven years. During this time he also served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate and part of the time as an overseer of Harvard University.

Administrative appointments

In 1863 he became the second President of the University of Michigan, where he served for six years. He then became the sixth President of Methodist-related Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. In 1872 he was chosen Secretary of the Board of Education of the M.E. Church. In 1874 he became the Chancellor of Methodist-related Syracuse University in New York. In 1880 he was elected a bishop.

Honors

He was given the degree of D.D. by Union College in 1854, and a few years later that of LL.D. by Ohio Wesleyan University. Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served five times in the General Conference of the M.E. Church, and in 1879 visited Great Britain as a delegate of the M.E. Church to the parent Wesleyan body. and an endowed chair, currently held by Carole LaBonne and Luís Amaral, was established by Northwestern University.

Death

He died in Salem, Oregon, and was buried at Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem.

Selected writings

The Young Man Advised, New York, 1855. (discourses delivered in the chapel of the University of Michigan)
Pillars of Truth, 1866. (on the evidences of Christianity)
Rhetoric, 1869
American Progress, 1876
Autobiography of Erastus O. Haven, D.D., LL.D., 1883

References

Leete, Frederick DeLand, ''Methodist Bishops''. Nashville, The Parthenon Press, 1948.
Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Descendants of Edmund Rice 9-generation Database, CD-ROM, available from [http://www.edmund-rice.org/genealogy.htm Edmund Rice Association]
"Erastus O. Haven, University Archives, Northwestern University Library".
"Ten faculty members appointed to named professorships".
"Northwestern announces named professorships".

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