. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. h School and Phillips-Exeter Academy ;graduated Harvard, 1879; teacher at and subsequentlyone of the proprietors of Riverview Academy, Pough-keepsie, N. Y., 1879-95; since 1895 Principal Phillips-Exeter Academy; (hon.) Williams, 1886. HARLAN PAGE AMEN, Educator, was bornat Sinking Spring, Highland county, Ohio,April 14, 1853, the son of Daniel and Sarah Jane(Barbour) Amen. His paternal ancestors were UNIVERSI
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. h School and Phillips-Exeter Academy ;graduated Harvard, 1879; teacher at and subsequentlyone of the proprietors of Riverview Academy, Pough-keepsie, N. Y., 1879-95; since 1895 Principal Phillips-Exeter Academy; (hon.) Williams, 1886. HARLAN PAGE AMEN, Educator, was bornat Sinking Spring, Highland county, Ohio,April 14, 1853, the son of Daniel and Sarah Jane(Barbour) Amen. His paternal ancestors were UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS French Huguenots who took refuge in Switzerland,where some of their descendants are still American branch of the family was founded byDurst Ammen, who for political and religious reasonsemigrated from Switzerland to America, and hisdescendants, among whom were Admiral DanielAmmen and General Jacob Ammen, have residedprincipally in Virginia and Ohio. His educationbeyond that afforded by the common schools wasdependent entirely upon his own efforts ; while apupil at the Portsmouth (Ohio) High School, hesupported himself by working as stock-boy and. HARLAN I. AMEN book-keeper in a wholesale and retail leaving the high school, he was employed as aclerk for two years, during which time he devotedall his spare moments to study, thereby gaining thegoodwill and encouragement of influential peo])le,including his former schoolmaster and the ministerand physician of his native town. Going to NewF^ngland in 1872 to prepare for College, he enteredPhillips-Exeter Academy; as his financial resourceswere slender, he continued as before to find employ-ment, principally tutoring, which enabled him tomeet his expenses promptly and also to lay some-thing by for future needs. In his last year at Exeterhe won the (iordon Scholarship amounting to J120,the second largest prize then existing in the school,gaining it in close competition with William DeWitt
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