Herman Daggett
American Presbyterian minister and animal rights writer
Herman Daggett
Born (1766-09-11 ) September 11, 1766Died 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
References
^ a b c d e f g h i Sprague, William B. (1859). Annals of the American Pulpit, Volume 2 . New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. pp. 291–294
^ a 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
^ a b Historical Catalogue of Brown University . (1895). Press of P. S. Remington & Co. p. 33
^ a 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 .
^ "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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