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Eliphalet Pearson was born in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1752 and graudated from Harvard College in 1773. He became the first principal of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1778. He taught at Harvard from 1786 to 1806, when he resigned and returned to Andover to found the Andover Theological Seminary. He remained in Andover as president of the board of trustees of the seminary and the academy until 1820. He died in Greenland, New Hampshire in 1826.
The Park family is composed of several generations of clergymen and educators. Edwards Amasa Park was a theologian and professor at Andover Theological Seminary (1836-1881). His son William Edwards Park was a minister of the Congregational Church in Gloversville, New York, and his granddaughter Marion Edwards Park was president of Bryn Mawr College from 1922 to 1942. Edwards Amasa Park's wife was Anna Maria Edwards, a great-granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards. She was also related to members of the Burr and Reeve families. William Edwards Park's wife, Sara Billings Edwards, was the daughter of theologian and editor Bela Bates Edwards and Jerusha William Billings, who conducted a school for girls in Andover, Massachusetts and was the sister of Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead, the president of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 to 1901.
From the description of Park family papers, 1701-1929 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702206504