Cyrus Hamlin

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Cyrus Hamlin (1811-1900) was an American Congregational missionary and educator, the father of A. D. F. Hamlin, born in Waterford, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834 and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837.

He promptly left the United States in 1838 as a missionary under the American Board, arriving in Turkey in January 1839. In 1860, he began the work of establishing Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. He served as its president until 1876, then returned to the United States where he served as professor of dogmatic theology at Bangor Theological Seminary. He was elected president of Middlebury College, Vermont in 1880. His term was short, lasting only until 1885. However, in 1883, during his tenure, the college made a significant decision to accept women. He published Among the Turks (1878) and My Life and Times (1893). Hamlin Hall at Robert College is named after him.