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Excerpt from An Address Commemorative of Richard Henry Mather: Professor of Greek in Amherst College
When a young man the father of Professor Mather, following an elder brother, Richard, emi grated, as it would then be said, from Lyme, Connecticut, to Binghamton, New York. Here, later, Henry Mather married Frances Whiting, agreat-granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards; and here, February 12, 1834, was born Richard Henry Mather.
If New England was not his birth-place, its spirit was embodied in the home of his boyhood. To know what was the influence of that home upon the child is to recall what was most enno bling in the man. At fourteen Richard Mather came to Amherst to be under the intellectual guidance of his uncle, Professor William S. Tyler. For this guardian of his youth and companion of his early and later manhood, Professor Mather had as his mother writes, the admiration of a pupil combined with the love of a son and the sympathy of a life-long friend.
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