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- Rev. Daniel Hascall graduated from Middlebury College and became a Baptist clergyman. He was founder of Madison University. He was also instrumental in founding Colgate University in Hamilton.
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume V
HASCALL, Daniel, educator, was born in Bennington, Vt., Feb. 24, 1782. In 1785 he removed with his parents to Pawlet, Vt., where he attended the district school in winter and received some private instruction. At the age of eighteen he began teaching, at the same time fitted for college and was graduated from Middlebury in 1806. He taught in Pittsfield, Mass., 1806-08; used his spare time in the study of theology; and was pastor of the Baptist church in Elizabethtown, N.Y., 1808-13. He then settled as pastor of the First Baptist church, Hamilton, N.Y. In addition to his pastoral duties he engaged in teaching and also edited, in part, the Christian Magazine. About 1815 he began to receive theological students into his family and through his efforts the Baptist education society of the state of New York was formed in 1817. This resulted in the establishment of the Hamilton literary and theological institution, which afterward became Madison University. Until 1828 he continued as pastor and teacher when he resigned to give his time to the institution and the Baptist education society. In 1835 he left the institution and took charge of an academy at Florence, N.Y. He was pastor at West Rutland, Vt., 1837-48; at Lebanon, N.Y., 1848-49, and then returned to Hamilton, N.Y., where he spent the rest of his life. He published several sermons and pamphlets. He died in Hamilton, N.Y., June 28, 1852.
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Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
HASCALL, Rev. DANIEL, graduated at Middlebury in 1806, and was soon after licensed to preach by the Baptist church in this town. He was a man of great industry and ability and was mainly instrumental in establishing the theological seminary at Hamilton, N.Y., where he was settled as pastor. He was the first principal of that institution and continued in that position for several years. He spent a few of the last years of his life in West Rutland, where he had married the widow Moses.
Daniel Haskell was the founder of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institute, which became Madison University in Hamilton, New York. He co-founded Colgate University, located also at Hamilton, New York.
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1782 - 1852 (70 years)
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