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TAYLOR, Samuel Harvey, educator, born in Derry, New Hampshire, 3 October, 1807 ; died in Andover, Massachusetts, 29 January, 1871. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1832, and at Andover theological seminary in 1837, when he took charge of Phillips Andover academy, having been a tutor in Dartmouth college during the last two years of his theological course. He was principal of the academy till his death, holding a high position among the classical scholars and instructors of the country. In 1852 he became associate editor of the "Bibliotheca Sacra," succeeding Bela B. Edwards. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him in 1854 by Brown. He was the translator and editor of text-books of Greek and Latin philology from the German, the author of " Method of Classical Study" (Boston, 1861), and the compiler of "Classical Study: its Value Illustrated by Extracts from the Writings of Eminent Scholars" (Andover, 1870).
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