Herman Daggett

Herman Daggett
Born	(1766-09-11)September 11, 1766 Walpole, Province of Massachusetts, British America
Died	May 19, 1832(1832-05-19) (aged 65)
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

• Humphrey Primatt

References

1. Sprague, William B. (1859). Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 2. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. pp. 291–294
2. 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
3. Blake, Mortimer. (1853). A Centurial History of the Mendon Association of Congregational. Boston: Sewall Harding. pp. 239–240
4. Historical Catalogue of Brown University. (1895). Press of P. S. Remington & Co. p. 33
5. 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
6. Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2004). Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 5-6. ISBN 0-275-97519-3
7. Phelps, Norm. (2007). The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. Lantern Books. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-1-59056-106-5
8. Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. Columbia University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-231-13421-7
9. Linzey, Andrew. (2004). Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology. Columbia University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-231-13421-7
10. 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.
11. "Union of Study With Useful Labour". The Quarterly Register and Journal of the American Education Society. 2 (2): 61. 1829.
12. 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.