Harlan Amen

Harlan P. Amen
6th Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy
In office
1895–1913
Preceded by Charles Fish
Succeeded by Lewis Perry
Personal details
Born April, 1853
Died October 8, 1913
Alma mater Harvard University

Harlan Page Amen (April 1853 – October 8, 1913) was an American educator and the sixth principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Harlan Amen was born in Sinking Spring, Ohio, in April 1853.[1] He was born into a poor family, and had to make an earning working as a clerk at a bookstore. He attended high school in Portsmouth, Ohio, then attended Exeter, where he befriended his roommate and future president of Bowdoin College, William De Witt Hyde, entering in 1871. He sustained himself during his education by working as a tutor, among other jobs. In his senior year, he was awarded the $120 Gordon scholarship. He then went on to Harvard University, graduating in 1879. Immediately after graduating, he began work at Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he became principal.[2] He took a four month leave in 1892 to visit prestigious public schools in England, including Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and St Paul's. In 1895, he became the principal of Exeter.[3] During his time at Exeter, he was also involved in the founding of Fessenden School, encouraging the founder, Frederick Fessenden, to purchase the plot of land on which the school sits.[4] He retired from the school in 1913.

Amen was married to Mary Rawson, with whom he had one child, John Harlen Amen, a lawyer and the Nuremberg Prison Chief interrogator. He died on October 8, 1913 in Exeter.[5] He was a Presbyterian.

References

  1. ↑ "Harlan Page Amen + Mary Rawson - Our Family Tree". www.ourfamtree.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Exeter's New Principal. | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  3. ↑ The Granite Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, History and State Progress. J.N. McClintock. 1895.
  4. ↑ "History | The Fessenden School". www.fessenden.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Harlan Page Amen + Mary Rawson - Our Family Tree". www.ourfamtree.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
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