Heman Humphrey, an American clergyman, born in Simsbury, Conn., March 26, 1779, died in Pittsfield, Mass., April 3, 1861. From the age of 16 he was engaged for several successive winters as a teacher in common schools. He graduated at Yale college in 1805, studied theology, and was pastor of the Congregational church in Fairfield, Conn., from 1807 to 1817, and in Pittsfield, Mass., from 1817 to October, 1823, when he became president of Amherst college, then unincorporated. Principally through his influence it obtained an act of incorporation the next year, and he presided over it till 1845, when he resigned, and devoted himself to literary pursuits, residing in Hatfield, Mass., and afterward in Pittsfield. He was one of the earliest advocates of the temperance cause. In 1810 he preached six sermons on intemperance, and in 1813 drew up a report to the Fairfield consociation which is believed to have been the earliest tract on the subject. Among his writings are: a prize essay on "The Sabbath" (1830); "Tour in France, Great Britain, and Belgium " (2 vols. 12mo, New York, 1838); " Domestic Education " (1840); " Letters to a Son in the Ministry " (Amherst, 1845); " Life and "Writings of N. W. Fiske" (1850); " Life and Writings of T. H. Gallaudet" (1857); "Sketches of the History of Revivals" (1859); and "Revival Sketches" (1860). A volume entitled "Memorial Sketches of Heman and Sophia Humphrey," by Z. M. Humphrey and Henry Neill, was printed for the use of the family.