Jeremiah Day

Jeremiah Day (August 3 1773 – August 22 1867) was an American academic a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846). Roger Sherman and Rebecca Minot Prescott they had one son child Sherman Day and Jeremiah Day died in 1806; and on Sept. Although as described by Timothy Dwight V the younger "he was a wise disciplinarian a judicious governor a thorough and accurate scholar a valuable teacher and a man of intelligent and penetrative mind" his influence was due chiefly to his goodness and his reputation for deep wisdom.