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American Presbyterian minister and animal rights writer
Herman Daggett
Born (1766-09-11 ) September 11, 1766Died May 19, 1832(1832-05-19) (aged 65) Nationality American Occupation Animal rights activist
Herman Daggett (September 11, 1766 – May 19, 1832) was an American
Presbyterian minister and early
animal rights writer.
Biography
Daggett was born on September 11, 1766, at
Walpole, Massachusetts .
[1]
[2] He was the son of physician Ebenezer Daggett, brother of
Naphtali Daggett .
[1] He moved to
Wrentham as a boy. Daggett attended
Brown University in 1784 and graduated in 1788.
[1] He studied theology under
Nathanael Emmons .
[3] Daggett became a licensed
Congregational preacher in 1789.
[1]
[4] He preached at
Long Island and
Southampton . He joined the pastoral office on April 12, 1792.
[1] He married Sarah, daughter of Colonel Mathewson on September 3, 1792.
[1] He resigned from Southampton and joined the pastoral care of the West Hampton church. He held this position from 1797 to 1801.
[1] He became pastor of the church at Fire Place and Middle Island in
Brookhaven until 1807.
[1] After this he preached at
New Canaan, Connecticut and
North Salem, New York . Daggett was President (1818–1824) of the
Foreign Mission School in
Cornwall, Connecticut .
[1]
[4] Daggett died on May 19, 1832.
[2]
Animal rights
On September 7, 1791, Daggett gave a lecture at Providence College (now Brown University) entitled "The Rights of Animals: An Oration" which was one of the earliest calls for
animal protection in the United States.
[5]
[6]
[7] The lecture was his
master's thesis and was printed in 1792 by David Frothingham.
[5] It has been described as "the first known American treatise on animal rights".
[8] It was re-printed by the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1926.
[9]
Selected publications
The Rights of Animals (1792)
[10]
An Abridgement of the Writings of Lewis Cornaro: A Nobleman of Venice on Health and Long Life (1824)
[11]
The American Reader (1841)
[12]
See also
References
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i Sprague, William B. (1859).
Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 2 . New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. pp. 291–294
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b Pelletreau, William S. (1903).
History of Long Island: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2 . New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 304
^ Blake, Mortimer. (1853).
A Centurial History of the Mendon Association of Congregational . Boston: Sewall Harding. pp. 239–240
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Historical Catalogue of Brown University . (1895). Press of P. S. Remington & Co. p. 33
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b Pelletreau, William S. (1903).
History of Long Island: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 2 . New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 512
^ Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004). Vegetarian America: A History . Praeger Publishing. p. 5-6.
ISBN
0-275-97519-3
^ Phelps, Norm. (2007). The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA . Lantern Books. pp. 87–88.
ISBN
978-1-59056-106-5
^ Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology . Columbia University Press. p. 188.
ISBN
978-0-231-13421-7
^ Linzey, Andrew. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology . Columbia University Press. p. 126.
ISBN
978-0-231-13421-7
^ Daggett, Herman (May 2011).
The rights of animals: an oration, delivered at the commencement of Providence-College, September 7, 1791. / By Herman Daggett, candidate for the master's degree. ; [One line of Scripture text] . Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
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"Union of Study With Useful Labour" . The Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Education Society . 2 (2): 61. 1829.
^ Daggett, Herman (1841).
"The American reader: consisting of familiar, instructive, and entertaining stories: selected for the use of schools" . W. Wilson. Retrieved 2 May 2020 .
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