Solomon Stoddard American Librarian
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| First Name |
Solomon
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| Last Name |
Stoddard
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1642
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| Birthplace |
Boston
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| Died |
11th February, 1729
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Cleric, librarian
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| Occupation |
Librarian
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Solomon Stoddard (September 27, 1643, baptized October 1, 1643 – February 11, 1729) was the pastor of the Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather, and later married his widow around 1670. Stoddard significantly liberalized church policy while promoting more power for the clergy, decrying drinking and extravagance, and urging the preaching of hellfire and the Judgment. The major religious leader of what was then the frontier, he was known as the "Puritan Pope of the Connecticut River valley" and was concerned with the lives (and the souls) of second-generation Puritans. The well-known theologian Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was his grandson, the son of Solomon's daughter, Esther Stoddard Edwards.
Stoddard was the first librarian at Harvard University and the first person in American history known by that title.
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