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Mather students, led by Mather Faculty Dean Christie McDonald and Karl Aspelund ’17, came together to conduct research into the life and legacy of Increase Mather, Harvard’s seventh president and the namesake of Mather House. The effort was in response to a growing discussion about confronting the historical legacies of
May 18, 2018 · Increase Mather. Increase Mather (1639-1723), American colonial representative, president of Harvard College, and author, was the most prominent member of the second generation in Massachusetts colony. Born in Dorchester, Mass., where his father was first minister, Increase Mather was educated at home and at Boston's free school.
Increase Mather was born June 21, 1639, in the Dorchester, Massachusetts, parsonage of his father, Richard Mather. His mother, née Katharine Hoult, was a “godly and prudent maid” whose family ...
Acquisition Information. The bulk of the Mather family papers at the American Antiquarian Society, of which the Increase Mather papers form one of five major subdivisions, were purchased from Hannah Mather Crocker (1752-1829), the great-granddaughter of Increase Mather, by Isaiah Thomas and donated to the American Antiquarian Society by Thomas in 1814.
INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723).Even more than his illustrious son Cotton, Increase Mather, is representative of American Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England.
Increase Mather. Increase Mather was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on 12 June 1639. He was ordained in 1664, and by the time of the Salem witchcraft trials was a prominent Boston minister. He had previously been the first President of Harvard College, and had headed a commission sent to England to negotiate for a new charter for the colony.
Sep 9, 2021 · Increase Mather was a native of Massachusetts Bay Colony who was born in Dorchester on June 21, 1639, to his father, Reverend Richard Mather, and Kathrine Holt Mather. His parents had migrated from England to the 13 original colonies during the Great Migration.
